Fretting

Examples

• Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But the great image contemplated the dead ages as calmly as ever, unconscious of the small insect that was fretting at its jaw. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By this time, fasting and fretting had made poor Meyler seriously unwell. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I said, 'No man is worth fretting for in that way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I've often wondered to see men that could call their wives and children _their own_ fretting and worrying about anything else. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I could not guess what his decision might be, and for hours I sat fretting over the outcome of the matter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I don't choose her out as a subject for fretting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What might have been the end of this fretting, had it continued unchecked, can only be conjectured: it received, however, a sudden turn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I see I have the means of fretting him out of his melancholy for some time to come. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Are you certain you are not fretting about your frames, and your business, and the war? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fretting with impatience at this interruption to a task he was so anxious to hasten, Clym was transformed into an invalid. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It's that that's fretting me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mrs. Gummidge appeared to be fretting a little, in her old corner; and consequently looked quite natural, too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In life she was a fretting, negated thing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I sha'n't improve my plain face by fretting--shall I? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It wont do for me to lose all my life in fretting. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• What would be peace to them would be eternal fretting to you. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Upon my honour, said Leinster, Henry is fretting for nothing at all. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Checked by Hillel