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Petulantly

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In a petulant manner.  Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, testily.






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"Petulantly" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Countess petulantly stopped her ears. "I won't listen to you," was her answer. "I knew there had been trickery of some sort, and you may as well save your breath, for whatever you say I will believe nothing against the ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... one else was on the roofs round about. She would not have cared if everyone in Sydney was on the roofs. For her no one existed just then but Louis. That had jarred a little. Then there were no more cigarettes and he had, quite petulantly, complained of the trouble of going down into the room for a new tin. She had gone cheerfully, as she would have fetched things for her father. She did not realize that, by waiting on his whims, she was lowering herself in his esteem. He had taken the cigarettes without a word ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles

... granddaughter was intently straining his weather-beaten face in the direction of Nott's Point, his back resolutely turned upon the scudding white wings. A sudden chuckle of grim satisfaction caused La Petite's head to toss petulantly. ...
— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar

... addicted to what is called "improving reading" inquire of you petulantly why you cannot find change of company and scene in books of travel, you should answer cautiously that when books of travel are full of inns, atmosphere, and motion, they are as good as any novel; nor is there any reason ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... of the age," he replied a little petulantly. "I had two friends who starved to death ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 • Various

... the manner of the multitude,' he answered somewhat petulantly. 'Illegal murder is always a mistake, but not necessarily a crime. Remember Corday. But in cases where the murder of one is really fiendish, why is it qualitatively less fiendish than the murder of many? On the other hand, had Brutus ...
— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel

... put in Cousin Egbert petulantly, "what's the use of all that 'one' stuff? Bill wants a good American name for his place. Me? I first thought the 'Bon Ton Eating House' would be kind of a nice name for it, but as soon as he said the 'United States Grill' ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... side, and contentedly puffed at his cigar until, at length, she turned upon him, and struck petulantly at the hand that had just removed it from his lips. The weed fell from his fingers to the ground, and Cora set her slippered heel upon it, as if it were an enemy, ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch

... She petulantly snatched her scarf from the fingers that still stroked it caressingly; but an instant later a singular change swept over her countenance, and pressing her hands to her heart, she said in a ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... riddles," cried the old man, petulantly; and presently, seeing that his son was obstinately silent, he left the room to dress ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford

... of all silly children, that boy was the silliest, and he deserved to be blown up for his want of common sense," cried the girl, petulantly. ...
— Moods • Louisa May Alcott

... the streets filled Dick with nervous terror, and he clung to Torpenhow's arm. "Fancy having to feel for a gutter with your foot!" he said petulantly, as he turned into the Park. "Let's curse ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... declared, petulantly. "What's the use of getting me into trouble? There's the river; they can't follow ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach

... "Gee!" he exclaimed petulantly, stepping forward a pace. "It seems as if the whole bloomin' German army was determined that I should get mixed up in the war! First it's von Liebknecht and now it's you and Otto keeping after me, and I never did a ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson

... petulantly. "Well, well! young women soon make friends with each other. I am so delighted you have got to love each other so much all at once—that shows how much your natures are alike, at which I am charmed. I hope, however, my ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

... think of anything?" she asked a little petulantly, evidently annoyed at my inadequacy. I ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various

... Lord Newhaven," she exclaimed petulantly; "I sent him off for a walk—I'm going out in the Canadian ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope

... not,' Maimie replied, which so perplexed them that they said petulantly there was no arguing with her. 'I wouldn't ask it of you,' she assured them, 'if I thought it was wrong,' and of course after this they could not well carry tales. They then said, 'Well-a-day,' and 'Such is life,' for they can be frightfully sarcastic; but she felt sorry for those of ...
— Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... while "they appear to have clear heads and active intellects," there was "no charm, no grace in their conversation." She found everywhere a lack of reverence for kings, learning, and rank. Other critics were even more savage. The editor of the Foreign Quarterly petulantly exclaimed that the United States was "a brigand confederation." Charles Dickens declared the country to be "so maimed and lame, so full of sores and ulcers that her best friends turn from the loathsome creature in disgust." Sydney Smith, editor of the Edinburgh Review, was never ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... to me that a Lorrigan is always making me put on a coat!" cried Mary Hope petulantly. "And now, this isn't ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower

... you are mad," she said petulantly. "The world is mad nowadays, and is galloping to the deuce as fast as greed can goad it. I merely stand out of the rush, not liking its destination. Here comes a barge, the commander of which is devoted to me because he believes that I am organizing a revolution for the abolition of lock dues ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw

... well as some portraits of their long-absent relatives in the United States and interesting family news, my reception was as cold as the snow-blown air outside. I was not allowed to finish explaining my business when I was at first petulantly and then ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... There was then a cessation of the dispute; and some minutes intervened, during which, dinner and the glass went on cheerfully; when Johnson suddenly and abruptly exclaimed, 'Mr. Beauclerk, how came you to talk so petulantly to me, as "This is what you don't know, but what I know"? One thing I know, which you don't seem to know, that you are very uncivil.' BEAUCLERK. 'Because you began by being uncivil, (which you always are.)' The words in parenthesis were, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... some trick about the thing," mumbled the old man petulantly. "You can't make me believe that Rudy's Hole ain't two or ...
— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon

... to believe all women are alike," exclaimed he petulantly as he was awaiting Mrs. Verne's appearance, "made up of April showers and ready to transfer themselves into a vale of tears whenever they think of their boy lovers but when they've made a good haul in the matrimonial ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour

... old gentleman, petulantly, "I want fire and shelter; and there's your great fire there blazing, crackling, and dancing on the walls, with nobody to feel it. Let me in, I say; I only ...
— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education

... isn't so careful in his expenses as he might be," said Mr. C., petulantly, disregarding the idea started by his neighbor; "he buys things I should not think of buying. Now, I was in his house the other day, and he had just given three dollars for ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... and but little appreciated. But Mrs. Brooke's sorrow was mingled with some self-reproach that she had not been to her departed child all that a mother should have been, and she suffered now for the wilfulness which, when deprived of one blessing, had turned petulantly from another. Lucy constantly missed her little favourite, and her sorrow for the loss of her father, never quite removed, seemed revived anew by her cousin's death. But she could feel that Amy was infinitely happier in her heavenly ...
— Lucy Raymond - Or, The Children's Watchword • Agnes Maule Machar

... lighten, and Siegfried enters; he reclines on a green bank and hearkens to a bird carolling amidst the rustling branches. He tries to imitate its notes on a reed cut with his sword, that emits strange noises; and at last, annoyed by his lack of success, he petulantly blows a blast on his horn. This arouses Fafner, who grumbles and discloses his hiding-place; and presently an extraordinary reptile, one the like of which never was on sea or land, comes forth to destroy the intruder. Siegfried (like the ordinary ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman

... the Count petulantly. "What is the use of going into all that?" He appeared to reflect for a moment. "Will you be good enough to leave the room for awhile, Mr. Schymansky? I think Mr. Smart and I can safely manage a friendly compact without your assistance. Eh, ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

... retorted the timber-merchant, petulantly; "he gave me the cut t'other day in Lunnun streets, for which I cuts he off with a shilling. Me make he my heir!—see he doubly hanged first, and ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various

... mirror which ministers to vanity. Should a husband appear in the picture, he is soon relegated to the background, receiving only occasional glances over the shoulder. If children dance into the field of vision, they are petulantly driven elsewhere. Tell me? Did Sister Seraphine's desire for life include any expression of ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... to go to the Princess's to-morrow night." said Germaine petulantly. "You didn't get any sleep at all last night, you couldn't have. You left Charmerace at eight o'clock; you were motoring all the night, and only got to Paris ...
— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson

... home, there was no pliant son and heir, to testify against Maria, and to close the many portals of a wretched father's heart. He grew very wretched—very mopy; determined upon cutting adrift shrewd Jack himself, as a stigma on the name which had once held the mace of mayoralty; made his will petulantly, for good and all, in favour of Stationer's hall, and felt very like a man who had lived in vain. "Cut it down; why ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... will draw you a diagram of what a woman doesn't mean when she uses the English language. Harold Routledge, almost broken-hearted, bids Lilian farewell, and leaves her presence. Lilian herself, proud and angry, allows him to go; waits petulantly a moment for him to return; then, forlorn and wretched, she bursts into the flood of tears which she intended to shed upon his breast. Under ordinary circumstances, those precious drops would not have been wasted. Young girls, when they quarrel with their lovers, are ...
— The Autobiography of a Play - Papers on Play-Making, II • Bronson Howard

... no time for hobbies," he exclaimed, half petulantly. "What I must do is this work. The man we are to meet to-night is ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough

... of mating were noticed on the 5th, the parties being two pairs of bluebirds. One of the females was rebuffing her suitor rather petulantly, but when he flew away she lost no time in following. Shall I be accused of slander if I suggest that possibly her No meant nothing worse than Ask me again? I trust not; she was only a bluebird, remember. Three days later I came upon two couples engaged in house-hunting. In this ...
— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey

... replied Etta rather petulantly, "that we shall be so horribly dull that even M. de Chauxville will ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman

... perturbation of spirit, at the end of a lonely day. "Varium et mutabile semper," was written, however, not of the sea but of woman. And it was of woman and woman's incomprehensibility that the keeper of the private log was petulantly thinking ...
— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... ringing this bell for hours," it said petulantly. "Some nasty boys have been picking my ...
— Such Blooming Talk • L. Major Reynolds

... little petulantly, and did as she desired. She threw her arms around my neck, and kissed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

... must be little indeed,' Mrs. Manston murmured. She stood still, as if reflecting upon the painful neglect her words had recalled to her mind; then, with a sudden impulse, turned round, and walked petulantly a few steps back again in the ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... it's no use to talk with you," said Dock, petulantly. "If you think I'd steal, I can't depend upon you, or you upon me. So there's an end ...
— Freaks of Fortune - or, Half Round the World • Oliver Optic

... a smart crack on the pate, so that the man leaped away, in indignation, and vigorously rubbed his head, but durst not swear (for he was a Methodist), and, being thus desperately situated, could say nothing at all, but could only petulantly whimper and stamp his foot, which I thought a mean thing for a man to do in such circumstances. "A poor way," says he, at last, "t' treat an old shipmate!" I thought it marvellously weak; my uncle would have had some real and searching thing to say—some slashing words (and, may be, ...
— The Cruise of the Shining Light • Norman Duncan

... the girl said, with tears gathering in her eyes. "I hate King William and King James both," she went on petulantly. "Why can't they fight their quarrel out alone, instead of troubling everyone else? I don't know which of them I hate ...
— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty

... been here half-an-hour ago, Dinville, and saved me from having to listen to a blood-and-thunder yarn about pirates and plots and revolutions and the deuce knows what!" the official exclaimed petulantly. ...
— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... comfortable spot for his unprotected body, but scratchy, knobby pieces of wood, with a foundation of sharp chunks of coal, was not conducive to rest. A bullet rattling against the engine added to his irritation, and he looked over the edge and fired his revolver petulantly. ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

... and served him in the wars of Queen Anne," interposed Mr. Warrington. On which my lady cried, petulantly, "O Lord! Queen Anne's dead, I suppose, and we ain't a-going into ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... petulantly; "but I'm not quite myself. I got a crack on the head from something; I've been bleeding a bit. But, tell me, are ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn

... laughing at me now," said Lesley, almost petulantly. "And you said that you would ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... rubbed the wrong way, just as Cicely and I feel, and just hate the sight of a teacher, and want to do everything you could to plague them," said Toinette, petulantly. ...
— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... other workers it is impossible to say; but in other circles of society this shrimp shortage has been responsible for much. From golf-courses this summer has come a stream of complaint that the game is not what it was. Sportsmen, again, have gone listlessly to their task and have petulantly wondered why the bags have been so poor. House-parties have been failures. In many a Grand Stand nerves have gone to pieces. Undoubtedly this grave news from the North Sea is the explanation. What can one expect when there are ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 29th, 1920 • Various

... still more puzzled when Addie exclaimed petulantly, "I thought the agreement was that Lottie should carry out the joke when and where we could ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe

... the streets filled Dick with nervous terror, and he clung to Torpenhow's arm. 'Fancy having to feel for a gutter with your foot!' he said petulantly, as he turned into the Park. 'Let's curse God ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling

... fingers and trailed along the ground in a crimson line. The sun dropped toward the west, and thunder began to roll: still they worked on! Their gentlemen-in-charge begged them to start again, and at last they rose up petulantly to go; but they had stayed too late. The storm burst. Lightning flashed; thunder roared; rain fell in torrents; and—strange to see—the poppy petals melted, so that the long chain of flowers turned to a liquid stream, red as a river of blood. ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... painting the Venice of the East," she cried petulantly, "but for the life of me I can't see a campanile, and how can I possibly paint a picture ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... foreman petulantly. "Which is the lady you mean was married to the defendant in New York? You said she was sitting by the other lady and that you meant the one with the red feather, but you didn't say whether the ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train

... inform you where she is," I answered, petulantly. "I scarcely think it was worth while to disturb me for the sake of asking me a question you must have known my inability ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... a room, and was told that there was a good fire in the next parlour, which the company were about to leave, being then paying their reckoning. Merchant, not satisfied with this answer, rushed into the room, and was followed by his companions. He then petulantly placed himself between the company and the fire, and soon after kicked down the table. This produced a quarrel, swords were drawn on both sides, and one Mr. James Sinclair was killed. Savage, having likewise wounded a maid that held him, forced his way, with ...
— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson

... if you feel you can wear them comfortably, do let's start before some other delay occurs," said Barbara, petulantly. ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... for a little more strength and determination, sir," said Wilton petulantly. "We must have water, and it is to be found up yonder in the hills. ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn

... well it is not what I mean," answered Vernon petulantly. "My wonder is, how one so elegant could be called by such a name ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various

... played with, embroidered upon, made handsomer, richer or more impressive. When Goethe adds that "he was retarded by a gloomy fantasy devoid of form or foundation," we perceive that the great critic is speaking petulantly or without sufficient knowledge. Duerer's gloomy fantasy, the grotesque element in his pictures and prints, was not his own creation, it is not peculiar to him, he accepted it from tradition and custom (see Plate "Descent into Hell"). ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

... run away, and we are not going to make ourselves liable to any punishment," interposed Sanford, rather petulantly. "We can have a good time on shore without running away, ...
— Up The Baltic - Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark • Oliver Optic

... in no hurry," he said, almost petulantly. "Shall I not have to be here the whole winter for the shooting?"—and Hamish was amazed to hear him talk of the winter shooting as some compulsory duty, whereas in these parts it far exceeded in variety and interest the very limited low-ground shooting of the autumn. ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black

... women who petulantly or sourly insist on more than this kind of harmony, it is probable that their system of divinity is little better than a special manifestation of shrewishness. The man is as much bound to resist that, as he is bound to resist extravagance in spending money, or any other vice ...
— On Compromise • John Morley

... don't like him, and I wish I hadn't mentioned him!" she exclaimed almost petulantly. "And I shouldn't have done it, either, only he keeps on bothering me so till I don't ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... was a King Heremon of Ireland," answered the Professor quite petulantly—as if the Commander had wanted to know if there had ever been a Julius Caesar or a Napoleon. "And so there was a Queen Harbundia. Malvina is always spoken of ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome

... he will be a "hulking boy," and convicted of bringing more dirt into the house upon one pair of soles than three pairs of hands can clean up. Eyes that fill now in surveying the tokens of his recent occupations and his lordly disregard of conventionalities, will flash petulantly upon books left, face downward, over night, on the piazza floor; muddy shoes kicked into the corner of the hall; the half-whittled cane and open knife on the sofa, and coats and caps everywhere except upon the hooks ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

... Petulantly Brent had carried his woe to the Colonel, but, instead of sympathy, he found the old gentleman radiant;—declaring Dale would become so utterly absorbed in learning the secrets of this science, that the engineer would find himself ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... you have kept me waiting," said the King, "as Louis once said." He gazed at me from under knotted eyebrows. "I wish," petulantly, "that you had remained in ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath

... Charlotte, saying that she, with a chaperon, had started to join her brother at the yacht-station, according to appointment. Amazed and utterly discomfited, he looked about for an escape; but his father, whose plea of sickness had kept him from pursuing Emilia, petulantly insisted that he should go down to Lady Charlotte. Adela was ready to go. There were numbers either going or now on the spot, and the net was around him. Cornelia held back, declaring that her place was by her father's side. Fine Shades were still too dominant at Brookfield for anyone ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... flash of heaven only, and then a change came. Almost had she yielded, but not quite, for now she arose quickly and turning away said half petulantly, "Oh, please don't speak of that now and spoil our visit. Let us go back ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn

... were being removed by Annie, the maid, with an elaborate confusion and a general passing of plates down the line, Istra Nash peered at the maid petulantly. Mrs. Arty frowned, then grew artificially pleasant ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis

... wilst, thou wilst," cried Mary petulantly. "Indeed it were plain that thou be a De Montfort; that race whose historic bravery be second only ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... be an ass, Darby," cried Garvington petulantly. "He has been in this house dozens of times and knows it as well as I do myself. Why do you ask ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume

... her, "What is to be done? Nothing shall be done, my dear child, that you dislike. I don't wish to part you two. Don't hate me; lie down again; that's a dear. There, I have smoothed your pillow for you. Oh, here's your pretty doll again." Sophy snatched at the doll petulantly, and made what the French call a moue at the good man as she suffered her grandfather to ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... quit talking about it," she said petulantly. "I hate to think of growing up. Grown ups don't seem to be happy—and I want to be happy!" She turned her head, and met once more the absorbed and watchful stare of the ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler

... spoke petulantly despite his resolution to hear his son to the end—"do you suppose we've always been ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... Whinney, usually so philosophical, had burst out petulantly with: "To hell with these islands. Give me a good mirage, any time." Swank and I had heartily agreed with him, and it was in that despondent spirit that we had begun our Fourth of ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock

... his orders," replied the son, petulantly. "Am I his dog that he should order me? I am not a Lalpuri now. ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly

... said, simply. "I—I am glad. It is a big thing for Peter." Her eyes widened in wonder and pride, and she dreamed for just a moment of his future. But, upon a sudden, her face fell. "Dear, dear!" said Stella, petulantly; "I'd forgotten. ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al

... pay me for this coming and re-coming?' said the driver petulantly. 'Is the boy mad? Last time it was a dancing-girl. This time ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

... commoner, made himself one of the passengers at once; but Byron held himself aloof, and sat on the rail, leaning on the mizzen shrouds, inhaling, as it were, poetical sympathy, from the gloomy Rock, then dark and stern in the twilight. There was in all about him that evening much waywardness; he spoke petulantly to Fletcher, his valet; and was evidently ill at ease with himself, and fretful towards others. I thought he would turn out an unsatisfactory shipmate; yet there was something redeeming in the tones of his voice, when, ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt

... how can you? I am only frightened, I tell you,' she answered petulantly, and raised her hand to her forehead. Knight then saw that she was bleeding from a severe cut in her wrist, apparently where it had descended upon a salient corner of the lead-work. Elfride, too, seemed to perceive and feel this ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

... "Well," he said rather petulantly, "it may be so, of course; but I don't think that you can hope to advance, if you begin by ...
— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson

... cried the chief officer petulantly; "and don't repeat my words in that absurd way. Haven't we had enough of ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn

... Tracy, that was mine as it lay!" cried his partner, somewhat petulantly, as she noted ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour

... the stew which our orderly had compounded with the assistance of the ingenious Mr. Maconochie, the Camp Commandant sighed heavily. "I am a kind of receptacle for the waste products of everybody's mind," he exclaimed petulantly. "This morning I was rung up on the telephone and asked if I would bury a dead horse for the Canadian Division; I told them I hadn't a Prayer Book and it couldn't be done. Then two nuns called and asked me to find a discreet soldier—un ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... lays bare to us the mere misery of life, it suggests something of life's mystery also. Very delicate, too, is the handling of external Nature. There are no formal guide-book descriptions of scenery, nor anything of what Byron petulantly called 'twaddling about trees,' but we seem to breathe the atmosphere of the country, to catch the exquisite scent of the beanfields, so familiar to all who have ever wandered through the Oxfordshire lanes in June; to hear the birds singing in the thicket, and the ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... she argued with her soul angrily, petulantly, "could you expect the boy to do anything else? He is a serious student, he has had a brilliant success, and is he to be tied to your apron-strings? The idea is preposterous. It isn't as if he was an idler, or a bad son. No mother could have ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

... me," said the marquis, petulantly; and when Osra cried out at this, he went on: "For the love of those whom I do not love is nothing to me, and the only soul alive I love—" There he stopped, but his eyes, fixed on Osra's face, ended the sentence for him. And she blushed, and looked away. Then, thinking the moment had come, ...
— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various

... meaning of all this?" I demanded petulantly, as he came near, gingerly stepping from stone ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro

... head sorrowfully as she warned Dora off till the nurse's dress could be changed. Occasionally she cried out petulantly, "If he would only be impatient, and fret and grumble like other people; if he would not take things so quietly; if he would resist and struggle, I believe he might fight the battle and win it yet. I think he will ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

... strange perhaps that she should be counting on Sorell's neighbourhood. If she had often petulantly felt at Oxford that he was too good, too high above her to be of much use to her, she might perhaps have felt it doubly now. For although in some undefined way, ever since the night of the Vice-Chancellor's party, she had realised ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... had been all day putting the singers one by one through their parts, that as he went to his room at night, there was a knock at Lancelot's door, and Gerald came in, looking deadly white. He had been silent and effaced all the evening, and his aunt had thought him tired, but he had rather petulantly eluded inquiry, and ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge

... lips and stared at Bud unwinkingly for a minute. "Don't lie to me," he warned petulantly. "Went to Crater, did ye? ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower

... much of everything," she had replied petulantly; but she had remained at home. The ladies' gallery was, however, quite full. Mrs. Finn was there, of course, anxious not only for her friend, but eager to hear how her husband would acquit himself in his task. The wives and daughters of all the ministers were there,—excepting the wife of the Prime ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... turned away, and the summer landscape again met him with its warm breath and radiant smile, he gloomed at it savagely, from eyes of deep rebuke, as at a thing that had beguiled him with false promises, wronged and defrauded him. And he flew out petulantly at poor Adrian— ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland

... regret, and anger—though why she should experience either she did not then understand—she drew herself from him; and when he said again: "Will Maggie answer? Are those tears for me?" she replied petulantly: "No; can't a body cry without being bothered for a reason? I came down here ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... of it all was that there was to be no marrying. Did he understand that? Oh dear, yes! Prosy understood quite well. But we wonder, is the image our mind forms of Sally's answer to the third question correct or incorrect? It presents her to us as answering rather petulantly: "Why shouldn't Dr. Conrad marry Miss Peplow, if he likes, and she likes? I dare say she'd be ready enough, though!" and then pretending to look out of the window. And shortly afterwards: ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

... don't really know. Sometimes I feel so horribly apprehensive. Madame is always so discreet and so mysterious. She will never tell me anything; and you—you, Mr. Hargreave, you are the same," she declared petulantly. ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux

... well," said Enid, a trifle petulantly. "I suppose there's some mystery about it. Of course there must be, or else he'd have come here himself, so we may as well change the subject. How do you like the new flat, ...
— The Missionary • George Griffith

... me," petulantly returned the other, as thrusting his long legs under the table, and turning his back upon the questioner he joined, or affected to join, in a conversation that was passing, in a low tone, at ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... bare, than he began such hideous moans as in a few minutes attracted several donations. Another, a blind woman, was brought to her post by a little boy, who carelessly leading her against the step of a door, she petulantly gave him a smart box of the ear, and exclaimed, "D——n you, you rascal, can't you mind what you're about;"—and then, leaning her back to the wall, in the same breath, she began to chaunt a hymn, which soon brought ...
— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips

... of the family, only shrugged her shoulders a little petulantly. It was Harriet, the wife, who spoke—a large, florid woman with a short upper lip, and a bewilderment of bepuffed light hair. She was already on her feet, pushing a ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter

... have said he liked it," she told herself petulantly. And then after she had laughed, she remembered that if he did anything too much—if she went too far—he could speak the word and send her flying out of fairyland... But he wouldn't do that. He was ever so much too noble, ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer

... happening SOMEWHERE, George," he broke out in a querulously rising note as he came back into the little shop. He fiddled with the piled dummy boxes of fancy soap and scent and so forth that adorned the end of the counter, then turned about petulantly, stuck his hands deeply into his pockets and withdrew one to scratch his head. "I must do SOMETHING," he said. ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... some personal defects, and a character so petulantly vainglorious, exposed the "Resolute" to the bitter sarcasm of contemporary writers. Accordingly we find him through life encompassed by a host of tormentors, and presenting his chevaux-de-frise of quills against them at all and every point. In ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various

... know how to get it off?" she demanded petulantly. "I've tried a knife. I've tried every damn thing in the dressing-room. I've tried soap and water—and even perfume and I've ruined my powder-puff trying to make ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... design is bad,' the artist petulantly exclaimed as his daughter re-entered the apartment, and he dashed his pencil ...
— Tales for Young and Old • Various

... you are putting it off so long," exclaimed the girl, petulantly. "I can get you all ...
— The Bradys Beyond Their Depth - The Great Swamp Mystery • Anonymous

... petulantly. "I want fire and shelter, and there's your great fire there blazing, crackling, and dancing on the walls with nobody to feel it. Let me in, I say; I only want to ...
— The King of the Golden River - A Short Fairy Tale • John Ruskin.

... Achilles alighting from one of his lance-cast-long leaps on the shore of Scamander, and find on near approach that all this grand straddling and turning down of the gas mean practically only a lad shying stones at sparrows, we are only too likely to pass it petulantly without taking note of what is really interesting in this eastern custom ...
— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys

... a vacation," she loftily explained, as she finally met his studiously non-quizzical glance. "Oh, I know that I am in my own home!" she petulantly acknowledged, as his gaze took in the room; "and that the automobile is at the door; and that I'm dressed for shopping. But for all that I'm on a vacation—a mental one," she emphasized; "and business must wait. I haven't got over the last ...
— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green

... Cahill petulantly, "why didn't you answer? Where is the blue stationery—the sort Major ...
— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis

... know how to use these things," he said, petulantly, "he ought to keep away from them. Tell that gentleman so when you ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja



Words linked to "Petulantly" :   pettishly, petulant, irritably, testily



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