"Fussily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like the one in which she now sat dreaming could she escape from the hard materialism of routine, and chiding for idleness usually followed. Her aunt, with an abundance of slaves at her command, could have enjoyed much leisure, yet she was fussily and constantly busy, and the young girl could not help feeling that much which she was expected to do was ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe
... "Yes, do, dear! Let's see you with it on." While the girls are fussily opening the robe, she manages to push her brother's gift behind the door. Then, without looking round at her husband. "It isn't a bit too long. Just the very—" Looking: "Well, it can easily be taken up at the hem. I can do it to-morrow." She abandons him to his awkward isolation ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... a minute, and then produced a dress of pink cotton, fussily trimmed with lace and ribbons. "This is thinner," she ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett |
