"Pettishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scrape with his knife, and released the foot, which Keno immediately stamped pettishly into the dust. He closed the knife, after wiping the blade upon his trousers leg, and returned it to his pocket before he so much as glanced ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... not ask you to forgive it; I know you cannot harbor anger a minute, and perhaps have forgotten the instances; but I cannot forget them. If you had failings of the same kind and I could recollect any instances where you had spoken pettishly or ill-natured to me, our accounts would then have been balanced, they would have called for mutual forgetfulness and forgiveness; but when, on reflection, I find nothing of the kind to charge you with, my conscience ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse
... you he was," returned Hal, pettishly. "When I say he was, I do not mean that he was not. I followed him after ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
... Cynthia, not unkindly, yet just a little pettishly. The great moment of her life—surely as great a moment as there had ever been in anybody's life—had hardly earned adequate recognition from Mary. As usual, her feelings and Alec's were at one. Before they passed to other and more important matters, when they drove off in the ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony
... would not smile at this little joke. She pulled pettishly away when good friend Anna placed her hand upon her forehead to ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... is Collins?" Merriton said pettishly, for he did not like Borkins, and they both ...
— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew
... Charlotte. Even yet she pettishly clung to her crown. The Mexican agents in Paris had availed nothing with Napoleon. Bien, she would herself go to Paris. She would get the ultimatum recalled, and Bazaine as well, because Bazaine no longer advanced money. The imperial favorites, among ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... difficulty won't do here. I had not much difficulty in persuading the United Synagogue that a new synagogue was a crying want in Kensington, but I could hardly persuade the government that a new constituency is a crying want in London." He spoke pettishly; his ambition always required ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... was not allowed to prevaricate, all that remained for me to do was to return no reply. But there was stubbornness in my silence; I should have liked to say pettishly: "But you won't let me explain, you won't ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... like the expedition," said Smith, pettishly, as he saw Fred and myself examining our ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... after the manner of his master; perhaps he, also, wished himself back at the Horseshoe Bar. He turned his head to look back, blinking at the snow which beat insistently in his eyes; he could not hold them open long enough to see anything, however, so he twitched his ears pettishly and gave ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower
... not sit down, he refused the strawberries, which Albine pettishly threw away. She did not open her lips again. She would rather have seen him ill, as in those earlier days when she had given him her hand for a pillow, and had felt him coming back to life beneath the ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... very well for you to say," returned Mona, a little pettishly, "for your hair is naturally curly, and you don't have to ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells
... use of boasting?" interposed the St. Bernard dog, pettishly. "The bears of Berne live in idleness; they walk about in a pit all day, or stand on their hind-legs begging for nuts. A St. Bernard dog is better employed, I should hope. We save the travellers in the snow who lose their way on the great St. ...
— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... me," she said pettishly. "Go and find papa; perhaps he'll manage to understand that I ...
— The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) - Une Vie and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893
... like you, Fitzfaddle"—pettishly reiterates the lady of the middle-aged man of business; "mention any thing that would be ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley
... doubt you can, Monsieur," I answered, rather pettishly; "for I suppose you asked him yourself; and, if you did so on my account, I must beg you will omit that proof of kindness in future, for I do not wish to ...
— Valerie • Frederick Marryat
... do with him, grandmother?' she said, pettishly. 'Is he to live with us, and be one of us, a person of whose belongings we know positively nothing, who owns ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... shall neither meddle nor make more in this Businesse: your Father's suddain Seizures shall never be layd at my Doore;" and soe left me, till we met at Dinner. After the Cloth was drawne, enters Mr. Milton, who goes up to Mother, and with Gracefulnesse kisses her Hand; but she withdrewe it pettishly, and tooke up her Sewing, on the which he lookt at her wonderingly, and then at me; then at her agayne, as though he woulde reade her whole Character in her Face; which having seemed to doe, and to write the same ...
— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning
... arm. "I don't know why," she exclaimed pettishly, and he saw and disliked the way her lips turned ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... worry on every inch of him. Possibly he thought that he might die. B. said "He's a Belgian, a friend of Count Bragard, his name is Monsieur Pet-airs." From time to time Monsieur Pet-airs remarked something delicately and pettishly in a gentle and weak voice. His adam's-apple, at such moments, jumped about in a longish slack wrinkled skinny neck which was like the neck of a turkey. To this turkey the approach of Thanksgiving ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... delayed," said Mrs. Fielding pettishly, "by those little fiends of children. I do think Mr. Green might teach them to keep to the side of the road. Pray get in, Miss Moore! Oh, do you ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... has many suns, I'm afraid," responded Sydney, a trifle pettishly, yet swiftly, scanning his face for signs of returning health. She was not unobservant, either, of his ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... what you please," retorted Lady Juliana pettishly; "but I know it's nothing but ill temper: nurse says so too; and it is so ugly with constantly crying that I cannot bear to look at it;" and she turned away her head as Miss Jacky entered red with the little culprit in her arms, which she was vainly ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... not on a whaling-voyage, where everything that offers is game," said Barnstable, turning himself pettishly away from the beast, as if he distrusted his own forbearance; "but stand fast! I see some one approaching behind the hedge. Look to your arms, Mr. Merry,—the first thing we hear may ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... impossible to make the old man realize his own absurdity. "Well, you needn't bite my head off," he said pettishly. "Come on, let's go out. A little rain ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... was clouded instantly as by a shadow of disappointment. She turned her head as if to hide this from his eyes, answering carelessly, a little pettishly: ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... of hearing about your position," said his wife pettishly. "In the days when you had not any, we were a lot happier. You didn't turn up your nose at my associates when I was on the boards at the Band Box! Everything was charming. You laughed then at what you now call "vulgar," and you thought it good fun, and you ...
— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris
... said Johnson pettishly, "to talk about peace with an army of insurrection newly raised. But what is it you actually wish ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... you made me jump!' cried the magpie, rather pettishly; 'I had nearly toppled down ...
— Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens • Tabitha Grimalkin
... narrative again," exclaimed the lizard, pettishly; "I never had such a tail in my life! Its restless tendency to divorce upon insufficient grounds is enough to harrow the reptilian soul! Now," he continued, backing up to the fugitive part, "perhaps ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... an automobile gave her the advantage of being able to don her first act costume at home, but her really attractive appearance in the fanciful gown of the heartless step-sister afforded her no pleasure. She hooked it up pettishly, made a face at herself in the mirror of her dressing table, and, drawing her evening cloak about her, flounced downstairs to her runabout, completely out of humor with ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... interrupted Bella pettishly. "You are a false man. Nothing should have prevented you from walking round by Simpson's, as you said ...
— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne
... Carmen pettishly, "I am the only one to be blamed. It's like you MEN!" (Mem. She was just fifteen, and uttered this awful 'resume' of experience just as if it hadn't been taught to her ...
— The Story of a Mine • Bret Harte
... notice of his sardonic harshness, and seated himself by his side, though Eric pettishly ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar
... pettishly; "Mr. Wood he sets me to watch the geese, and they runs in among the buckwheat and the potatoes, and I tries to drive them out, and they doesn't want to come, and," shamefacedly, "I has to switch their feet, and I hates to do it, 'cause I'm a ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... to Dunwich fair!" cried Elizabeth, pettishly; "and if Arthur Blackbourne goes without me I will ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various
... I know that, if any body does," said his wife, pettishly, and in a half-whimpering voice. "I think ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
... there was nothing at all," she declared, nervously and pettishly. "It is all an awful mistake. I wish that dreadful man could be punished severely for what he said to me. To be outraged and insulted this way before ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... to the devil she would mind her own business, and let me manage mine," he said pettishly, thrusting the ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley
... everybody seems hungry to-day!" returned the Rat pettishly; "however, that's easily settled-I'll fetch you ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
... natural that I should be curious,' she murmured pettishly, 'if I resemble her as much as you say ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... was safe till it rubbed against the more stubborn pride of Coke. The monarch was of opinion that the constitution and the law allowed him personally to try causes between his loyal subjects. "By my soul," he said pettishly to Coke, who begged leave to differ, "I have often heard the boast that your English law was founded upon reason. If that be so, why have not I and others reason as well as you, the judges?" Coke explained why and by the manner of his explanation compelled ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... goodness' sake let's get on," said Oliver, pettishly, and he hurried beneath the tree where the first monkey had been seen, and as he passed a good-sized piece of stick whizzed by his ear and ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... talk so foolishly! As if Polly would come to Chicago! What would she do with herself while we had to entertain?" said Barbara, pettishly, but no ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... pettishly, without looking at the pretended Moussul merchant; "I do not greet you; I will have neither your greeting nor ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... Lady Torrington exclaimed, a little pettishly. "However, you found your way home ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... all leave off staring at me as though I were a ghost," the other man answered, almost pettishly. "I'm Douglas Romilly, right enough. You needn't look in such a blue funk, Philip," he went on, his fingers mechanically rearranging his collar and tie, which Beatrice had disarranged. "I served you a beastly trick and you went for me. I should have done the same if I'd been in your place. On the ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... threatening," she said, attempting to smile. "Well, you shall have your way," and she threw aside her riding-whip pettishly. "You'll have to wait until I change my dress; I cannot walk ...
— Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint
... marble-topped table with uncertain legs, and spread it ungently over the portrait upon the easel. Then she went to the window and looked out again. "I feel perfectly sure that cowboy went and got drunk immediately," she complained, drumming pettishly upon the glass. "And I don't suppose he ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... she mounted, switched his tail pettishly when she struck him with the quirt, reluctantly obeyed the rein, and set his feet on the first steep pitch of the Devil's Tooth trail. Old as he was, Rab had never gone down that trail and he chose his footing circumspectly. It was no place for a runaway, as Mary Hope ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... which he was himself excluded. On the present occasion, the young heiress of Annesley having had for her partner (as often happens at Matlock) some person with whom she was wholly unacquainted, on her resuming her seat, Byron said to her pettishly, "I hope you like your friend?" The words were scarce out of his lips when he was accosted by an ungainly-looking Scotch lady, who rather boisterously claimed him as "cousin," and was putting his pride to the ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore
... horrid little bit of a room," she repeated again, pettishly. "I don't like it, and I won't stay, unless you send me a beautiful ring. What kind of a ring will it be, ...
— Ruby at School • Minnie E. Paull
... like a child," she said almost pettishly. "Don't try so hard to be cheerful. It—it is ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Zell pettishly, "you know well enough that by the time we were sixteen our heads were so full of beaux, parties, and dress, that French and music were a bore. We went through the fashionable mills like the rest, and if father had continued worth a million or so, no ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... nothing,' she said, pettishly. 'This'll go away directly.' Instinctively she put up her ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... fortnight that the brother and sister spent together. Childishly as Owen had undergone the relations and troubles of more advanced life, pettishly as he had striven against feeling and responsibility, the storm had taken effect. Hard as he had struggled to remain a boy, manhood had suddenly grown on him; and probably his exclusion from Hiltonbury did more to stamp the impression of his guilt than did its ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... wound, if it were not healed,—and the consciousness of it struck him more and more dumb, till his presence was like a damper on the festivities; so much so, that when at three in the afternoon he and Katie took their departure, the door had no more than closed on them before Elspie exclaimed pettishly: "An' indeed I wish Katie'd left Cousin Donald behind. I don't know what it is she thinks so much of him for. She's always sayin' there's none like him; an' it's lucky it's true. The great glowerin' steeple o' a man, with no word in his mouth!" And the ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... the girl pettishly. "Why should any of us want to stay? There's plenty of hard work and plenty of prayers I grant you, and when you have said that you've said all. No decent housen, no butcher's meat, or milk, or garden stuff, or so much as a huckster's shop where one might cheapen a ribbon or a stay-lace—what is ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... to know?" remarked the Doctor-in-Law pettishly. "I'd never met a single one of Henry the Eighth's wives in my life, and how ...
— The Wallypug in London • G. E. Farrow
... proffered envelope. "How in time do I know whether there's any answer or not?" he demanded pettishly. "I ain't read it yet, have I? Think I've got second sight? Why in the nation didn't you ring up on the telephone, instead of comin' here and ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... he paid her, and though in Julia's presence he was careful how he treated her, yet when he, walking down the road one day, alone, met her, he courted her assiduously. He had not to observe any caution in her case. She greedily absorbed all the flattery he could give, only pettishly responding after a while: "O dear! that's the way you talk to me, and that's the way you talk to Jule sometimes, I s'pose. I guess she don't mind keeping two of you as ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... the Bible with your mother's milk, I suppose," said Gertrude pettishly, "and have had it knitted into you ever since by your grandmother's needles. I did not expect you to be a spoil-sport, Lettice. I thought you would be only too happy to come out of your convent ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... haste," he said pettishly. "I'm awfully tired. I've been sitting here all the evening. Why couldn't you come ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... stare at me, and stare at me," she complained, pettishly, to Dolly, "and some of them say things to me. I wish they would attend to their pictures and ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... secretly disputed her right, and, proud of becoming a schoolboy, had not the generous deference for her weakness felt by his elder brothers; he was all the time peeling a stick, as if to show that he was not attending, and he raised up his shoulder pettishly whenever she came to a mention of the religious duty of sincerity. She did not long continue her advice, and, much disappointed and concerned, tried to console herself with hoping that he might have heeded more than he ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... taken his post on some high white land, about a league southward of Boulogne, and with strong field-glasses, which he pettishly exchanged in doubt of their power and truth, he was scanning all the roadways of the shore and the trackless breadths of sea. His quick brain was burning for despatches overland—whether from the coast road past Etaples, or further inland ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... was much annoyed at all this bustle, and stopped him by the somewhat contemptuous question, "Whar's this you're gaun, Bobby, that ye mak sic a grand wark about yer claes?" The young man lost temper, and pettishly replied, "I'm going to the devil." "'Deed, Robby, then," was the quiet answer, "ye needna be sae nice, he'll juist tak' ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... she pettishly pushed the plant to one side, and placed her scrap-book on the table with ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... said, pettishly; "I don't think that the harbor-master is a spirit or a sprite or a hobgoblin, or any sort of damned rot. Neither do I believe it to be ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... horrid dream!" she said pettishly, "about a soft, plump man with ever so many rings on his hands. . . . Oh, I am glad you came. . . . Look at this child of mine!" cuddling the staring wax doll closer; "she's not undressed yet, and it's long, long after bedtime. Hand me ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... a cousin of my mother, Cousin Mallie we used to call her, got in a sewing woman, and all our black things were made right there in the house—" the old lady was pursuing, mournfully, when Nina broke in pettishly: ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... whimpering. He, the champion slogger, accustomed to rampage round the tents of the enemy, and bring his shillelagh down on any head accidentally protruding, had been himself attacked. HICKS-BEACH girded at him to-night in comparatively gentle fashion. HARCOURT tossed about on bench and pettishly protested; claimed SPEAKER'S protection; SPEAKER declined to interfere. Then, digging lusty knuckles into moist eyes, he sobbed, "I—I—am not going to stay to be abused in this manner; shan't play!" and so went forth, amid the jeers and mocking laughter of naughty boys ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 • Various
... Craven, pettishly. "Do I suppose this room is haunted; do I believe my offices are haunted? No sane man has faith in any folly of the kind; but the place has got a bad name; I suspect it is unhealthy, and the tenants, when ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... Robert Fowler pause more than once in his work to heave a deep sigh, and throw down his tools almost pettishly? Why did he suddenly put his fingers in his ears as if to shut out an unwelcome sound, resuming his work thereafter with double speed? No one was speaking to him. The mid-day air was very still. The haze that often broods over the north-east coast veiled the horizon. Sea and sky melted ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... clumsy fellow I am!" he exclaimed pettishly, as though in reference to his having dropped the lighted paper. "Now I shall have to expend another match. But, Blanche, your nerves are still unsteady; the sight of this threatening gulf is too much for you. I think you would ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood
... Alice, pettishly. "Do not keep repeating the same thing over and over; you know it is one of your bad habits. Will you stay to lunch? Miss Carew told ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... quite sensitive about the ridiculous complaint his children had given to him, and after struggling with it pettishly for some time, and the vacation coming along, he had finally proposed the New Zealand trip to his wife, the children being sent to complete their cure to the summer home he had long since built ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... Honor exclaimed in mock horror, "truly, you've quite deafened me with that terrible shout," and she frowned pettishly, putting her little gloved hands sympathisingly ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... are ennuyee," said I, half pettishly, to provoke a disclaimer if possible. To this insidiously put quere I received, as I deserved, no answer, and again ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... virago, but even Anna, who had shrunk from her, felt a little mollified and touched as she saw how tenderly the rough hand rested on the child's curls. But Kit pushed it pettishly away. "Don't, Ma'am, you've been and gone and spoiled Jemima's ball dress, and she is going to wear it to-night," and Kit held up a modicum of blue gauze which certainly did not bear the slightest resemblance to a garment, and regarded it anxiously. Jemima herself, a mere battered hulk ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... Kitty took Jack's arm pettishly, but glanced over her shoulder with such an inviting smile that Fletcher followed, feeling very much like a top, in danger of tumbling down the instant he stopped spinning. As she came out Kitty's face cleared, and, assuming ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott
... that the more useful household utensils had been forgotten; and that, a few weeks after her wedding, she was actually obliged to apply to her husband for money to purchase baskets, iron spoons, clothes-lines, &c.; and her husband, made irritable by the want of money, pettishly demanded why she had bought so many things they did not want. Did the doctor gain any patients, or she a single friend, by offering their visiters water in richly-cut glass tumblers, or serving them with costly damask napkins, instead of plain soft towels? ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child
... Felipe, pettishly. He was still weak enough to be childish. "I like him about me. He's worth a dozen times as much as any man we've got. But I don't suppose money could hire him to stay ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... I half-fear!" he said pettishly. "Nor anybody perhaps! Sue, sometimes, when I am vexed with you, I think you are ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... master pettishly, "I don't want to do it, but I shall have to give 'em a dose of grape yet. Why won't the stupid donkeys take a hint? And why, in the name of fortune, should they want to interfere with us at all? Try ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... that is not a pretty thing to say," said grandpapa, pettishly and disappointed, as people are apt to be when they try to calculate on the fitful sympathies of childhood. "Come, you must go in ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... her eyebrows in astonishment, and then shrugged her shoulders. "You are not very polite to me, Mr. Vivian!" she said, half-playfully, half-pettishly. ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... you would not wear those wisps of pink about your head, Josephine,' said he, pettishly. 'All that women have to think about is how to dress themselves, and yet they cannot even do that with moderation or taste. If I see you again in such a thing I will thrust it in the fire as I did your ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
... she could have known— The toils, the hardships of those absent years— How bitter thraldom forced the unwilling groan— How slavery wrung out subduing tears, Not calmly had she passed her hours away, Chiding half pettishly ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... been absurd," said Lady Garvington pettishly. "What's the use of Hunger marrying Thirst? Noel has no money, just like ourselves, and if it hadn't been for Hubert this place would have been sold long ago. I'm ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... Miss Ruth pettishly, "you know Sarah would get the color on the handles. But there! I suppose you don't know how artistic people feel about such things." She stopped long enough to take off her gloves and tie the strings of her long white apron ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... in: "Do talk in English," she said pettishly. "You can't think how tiresome it is to hear that rook's language ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... revolt, would say pettishly: "You're like a mosquito, that's what. Person never knows from one minute to the other ...
— Gigolo • Edna Ferber
... mean, and I don't believe you know yourself," said Felicity pettishly. "All that I can make out is that Miss Reade is going to marry Jasper Dale, and I don't like the idea one bit. She is so beautiful and sweet. I thought she'd marry some dashing young man. Jasper Dale must be nearly ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... daintier than ever in her grey hat and warm fur tippet; but of course Paul was not of the age or in the mood to be much affected by such things—he turned his head pettishly away. ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... if any one is hurt?" she asked pettishly. "I saw some one fall, but couldn't stop the machine. I supposed the highway was for vehicles, ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... a pink bandeau, mother," replied Florrie a little pettishly, as she patted her golden-red fringe. "I wonder where Gabriella is? Isn't ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... to know what it is?" said Mr. Arnold, half pettishly, and forgetting that his knowledge had not extended even to the interpretation of ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... your seaman naturally hates calm weather—but scarcely the degree of it in a man of temperament so placid. Hitherto he had taken delight in the strains of Mr. Badcock's flute. Suddenly, and almost pettishly, he laid an embargo on that instrument, and moreover sent word down to the hold and commanded old Worthyvale to desist from hammering on the ballast. All noise, in fact, appeared ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... pettishly, and started off alone. Hugh never had any difficulty about direction. In a locality with which he was familiar he would walk about with the utmost confidence. Occasionally he would stop, rap his leg sharply with one hand, listen a moment, and then, apparently satisfied, ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... here and interfere?" she continued pettishly, looking up from Talbot to his companion. "I always have such luck, and I'm likely to lose it ...
— A Girl of the Klondike • Victoria Cross
... he, rather pettishly, "go thy ways, Hans; you dream, or are mad, or drunk. What you see is quite impossible. I should as soon believe my old grey mare had got into the garret as that my wife was at ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous
... pettishly, "but seems to me Mary is dreadful anxious to have folks know that Mr. Stuart ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes
... say I wouldn't have it?" answered "dear" pettishly, as she reached into another box containing an assortment of wings, quails, tails, and parts of various birds jumbled up together. Picking out a pair of blackbird's wings she placed them jauntily against the rim of an untrimmed hat which her ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson
... said Sylvia pettishly. "Nonsense! I'm not made of butter—I sha'n't melt. Thank you, dear, you needn't pull the blind down." And then, as though angry with herself for her anger, she added, "You are always thinking of me, Maurice," and gave him her ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... traitorous disciple, is ever painted with locks of the same unhappy colour. Shakspeare, too, seems to have been embued with the like morbid feeling of distrust for those on whose hapless heads the invidious mark appeared. In his play of As You Like It, he makes Rosalind (who is pettishly complaining of her lover's tardiness coming to her) say ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 • Various
... the burden of all mishaps on me," returned Walter Skinner, pettishly. "But I promise not that I will speak no word, if it seemeth to me best to speak. It is not every one in the king's employ. Not every one is out scouring the country for a lord's son. And if one may not speak of his ...
— A Boy's Ride • Gulielma Zollinger
... me to meet the enemy without you in the morning;—is that your intention?" asked La Tour, pettishly. ...
— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney
... forget William's vulgar story in billiards, but he had spoiled my game. My opponent, to whom I can give twenty, ran out when I was sixty-seven, and I put aside my cue pettishly. That in itself was bad form, but what would they have thought had they known that a waiter's impertinence caused it! I grew angrier with William as the night wore on, and next day I punished him by giving my orders through ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... know—quite," she answered, a little pettishly. "But I used to see Madame go off in the woods, and she would sit hour by hour, and listen to the waterfall, and talk to the birds, and at herself too; and more than once I saw her shut her hands—like ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... turned to Sallie for consolation, saying to her rather pettishly, "There isn't a bit of flirt ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... propose a balloon," she continued pettishly. "The gods don't give everything to one person: now, they give us brains, and they ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... course I shall learn," Ryan said pettishly. "You always get your own way, Terence. It was so at Athlone: you first of all began by asking my opinion, and then carried out things exactly as you proposed, yourself. Learning the language is a horrid nuisance, but I see that it has to ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
... The Emperor pettishly replied: "I shall see: it has never been my intention, to refuse to abdicate. I was a soldier; I will become one again: but I want to be allowed, to think of it calmly, with a view to the interests of France and of my son: ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon
... was anxious for a year or two at college; but the general divulged not much: albeit he vouchsafed to both his sons a liberally increased allowance. It was only when his wife, piqued at such reserve, pettishly remarked, ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... hoped for a change in Godoy's mood. On 26th August Grenville informed Bute that, though England had good cause for declaring war, she would await the result of the recent proposals to Spain. On or about that date Las Casas, the Spanish ambassador, pettishly left London on a flimsy pretext; and two days later Dundas warned the commander-in-chief in Hayti of the imminence of war. Nevertheless, while taking every precaution, he was not to attack the Spaniards until definite news of a rupture arrived. Further, on the 31st (as will appear ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... of the beautiful sylph darkened in a moment, like a cosmoramic landscape. "And why not?" returned she, pettishly; "I suppose, ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... were quite unjustifiable in not following Sir Robert Cecil's advice, and in not engaging with him at once in peace negotiations; at least so far as to discover what the enemy's intentions might be. She added, pettishly, that if Prince Maurice and other functionaries were left in the enjoyment of their offices, and if the Spaniards were sent out of the country, there seemed no reason why such ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... of Caliste her brow clouded over; for she could not but be aware that for this day, when least she had desired it, her sister's beauty would outshine her own. Turning to Victorine, she pettishly asked her, "Wherefore she had not attended to her dress as well as to Caliste's? Is there any fault in it?" she said, "for I suppose I shall be most regarded; I pray you, Victorine, set it right, if any ...
— The Young Lord and Other Tales - to which is added Victorine Durocher • Camilla Toulmin
... not in a perfectly amiable temper. Lord Fordyce attracted her strongly, and it was plain to be seen he had only eyes for Sabine—who cared for him not at all. The Princess found Cranley Beaton absolutely tiresome—no better than the New York Herald, she thought pettishly, or the Continental Daily Mail—to be with! The waters were getting on her nerves, too; she would be glad to leave and go to Sorrento with that Cupid among infants, Girolamo. Sabine had better divorce her horror of a husband, and marry the man and ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... best ear-rings in the world. Unluckily, they did not particularly suit his fancy, and the young lady, who had, but half an hour before, professed that she could never be of a different opinion in any thing from that of the man she loved, now pettishly declared that she could not and would not give up her taste. Incensed still more by a bow of submission, but not of conviction, from Mr. Beaumont, she went on regardless of her dearest Mrs. Beaumont's frowns, and vehemently maintained her judgment, quoting, with triumphant volubility, innumerable ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
... against her, as before. The cabin was full of all manner of creakings; the close lamp swung to and fro over the head of my friend; and a refractory Concordance, after having twice travelled from him along the entire length of the table, flung itself pettishly upon the floor. I got into my snug bed about eleven; and at twelve, the minister, after poring sufficiently over his notes, and drawing the final score, turned into his. In a brief hour after, on came the gale, in a style worthy of ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... then?" asked a gentleman, who seemed to be one of the civil engineers, pettishly. "I say ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... bills to pay," she says, pettishly, "and dresses to get." Then she lights upon what seems to her a withering sarcasm. "I have no one to take me to Madame Vauban's and pay no end of bills. If I bought dresses like that when I had no need of them and was not ...
— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... said Lily, pettishly; 'I thought I might depend—' She turned and saw Miss Weston close to her. 'Oh, Alethea!' said she, 'I thought you would have ...
— Scenes and Characters • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Edith, perhaps a little pettishly, for she liked not to dwell upon such gloomy anticipations, "why should you be discontented with the home you have already? Surely, there are none here ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird
... thinking" of her future as a clergyman's wife; and now he was blindly expecting a miraculous transformation of the butterfly into a drone, while the butterfly was poising her wings, impatient for flight. I sat silent, and Delphine said pettishly:— ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... nonsense!" jeered Mrs. Wickham, throwing herself pettishly into a chair. "I find it's always a very good rule to judge people by oneself, and I'm positive she was just longing for the old lady ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett
... interrupted the girl, pettishly. "Go about your business! Do not trouble to come here again, Don Stanislas. Benito will take me where ...
— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths
... foolishness," said Aline pettishly, tears of annoyance in her eyes. "And I wish you wouldn't ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse |
