All 4 Uses of
querulous
in
Ethan Frome
- On our right a line of light marked the door of the room which had sent its ray across the night; and behind the door I heard a woman's voice droning querulously.†
Chpt Openquerulously = in a tone expressing complaint
- She sat opposite the window, and the pale light reflected from the banks of snow made her face look more than usually drawn and bloodless, sharpened the three parallel creases between ear and cheek, and drew querulous lines from her thin nose to the corners of her mouth.†
Chpt 3
- Must he wear out all his years at the side of a bitter querulous woman?
Chpt 8 *querulous = habitually complaining
- "Oh, Matt, I thought we'd fetched it," he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: "I ought to be getting him his feed..." ...... ...... ...... THE QUERULOUS DRONE ceased as I entered Frome's kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker.†
Chpt Close
Definition:
habitually complaining -- especially in a high-pitched whiny voice