All 6 Uses

peevish
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The Good Earth
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"I will buy it," he repeated peevishly as he might repeat a demand to his mother who crossed him.†
Chpt 5 *
The cobbled streets of the fish market were lined with great baskets of big silver fish, caught in the night out of the teeming river; with tubs of small shining fish, dipped out of a net cast over a pool; with heaps of yellow crabs, squirming and nipping in peevish astonishment; with writhing eels for gourmands at the feasts.†
Chpt 12
Then the voice said peevishly, "Now who is an accursed Wang Lung?"†
Chpt 16
Lotus was fretful and she answered peevishly, pouting her lips and hanging her head away from him, "Now and I have no one except you and I have no friends and I am used to a merry house and in yours there is no one except the first wife who hates me and these children of yours who are a plague to me, and I have no one."†
Chpt 21
And he would not speak of it any more and Lotus saw he was peevish from some anger, and she sent Cuckoo away and suffered him there alone.†
Chpt 24
And the youngest lad did this and that to fill his mother's place with the old man his grandfather, who was helpless as a little child now, and Wang Lung could not make the old man understand what had happened that O-lan no longer came to bring him tea and hot water and to help him lie down and stand up, and he was peevish because he called her and she did not come, and he threw his bowl of tea on the ground like a wilful child.†
Chpt 26

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