"Pettishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Half pettishly she answered, "Because i like sometimes to be alone," then, rising up and turning toward me she asked if "the water still ran over the, old mill dam in the west woods just as it used to do," Saying if it did, she wished to see it. "You can't go," she continued, addressing ...
— Rosamond - or, The Youthful Error • Mary J. Holmes
... say I believe it," returned Mrs Courthope, a little pettishly; "but there's no good in ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald
... consent to be the diva at a rehearsal, and then her compelling her hidalgo duque to consent further: an event not inconceivable. For here was downright genius; the flowering aloe of the many years in formation; and Colney admitted the song to have a streak of genius; though he would pettishly and stupidly say, that our modern newspaper Press is able now to force genius for us twenty or so to the month, excluding Sundays-our short pauses for the incubation of it. Real rare genius was in that song, nothing forced; and exquisite melody; one of those melodies which fling gold chains about ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... speak, to exclaim perhaps at his magnanimity in offering to help her against her will, but she shrouded herself pettishly in her cloak. ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
... you did not propose a balloon," she continued pettishly. "The gods don't give everything to one person: now, they give us brains, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... so foolishly! As if Polly would come to Chicago! What would she do with herself while we had to entertain?" said Barbara, pettishly, but ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... the ambition of the mother, so characteristic, to dress with fantastic colours: the child gambols at her feet, views its many-coloured dress, keeps asking various unanswerable questions about Daddy Bob, Harry, and the pic-nic. Again it scrambles pettishly, sings snatches of some merry plantation song, pulls its braided hat about the floor, climbs upon the table to see what ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... no eyes for beautiful things to-night," said Ada pettishly; "I cannot get over it—such cool, thankless indifference when I took the trouble to dress his—his—stupid head, and then, not satisfied with telling the whole story over to thee, who cares no more for it than if it were the slaying of half a dozen sheep, ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... the whole night deciding on a subject, and now that I have sketched it, see that it's not suitable,' he pettishly made answer. ...
— Tales for Young and Old • Various
... as likely as the holiest of 'em to refresh ourselves all night on a stone bolster," pettishly replied the unthankful youth, as he seated himself ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... pettishly. She was not a pettish person, only just now something in her sister's words ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... have pleased me more if you had offered me the chance of seeing a new comedy," his wife retorted, pettishly. ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... "Say, you know dear Babette is getting very tired," she announced pettishly. "And ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... me," he 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 ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... coarse-tongued 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 ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... else. Come, let us go and gather some ripe figs, and eat them under the trees for our supper. And I know a vine that has the sweetest and juiciest grapes you ever tasted." "Always talking about grapes and figs!" cried Pandora, pettishly. ...
— The Elson Readers, Book 5 • William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
... 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 want ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... added pettishly, "the prospect of being speedily released from our company has wrought a cure on her ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... so oddly with her vehemently expressed attachment for her husband and extolment of his virtues, that Mrs. Sutton regarded her in speechless amazement. She submitted to his kiss, without returning it—even raising her hand pettishly as to repel further endearments. "I should have died of the blue devils if Aunt Rachel hadn't, by the merest accident, heard that I was ailing, and driven over, like the Good Samaritan she is, to take pity upon me in my destitution; to pour oil—not cod-liver—into my wounds, and ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... 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 ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... Rosie with Arthur and me," said Fanny, a little pettishly. "There are so many things that Graeme don't approve of. She ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... raft is ever going to float any more than the mill itself," he remarked pettishly to his sister Elta one day in October, as they sat together on the Venture and watched the sluggish current of the ...
— Raftmates - A Story of the Great River • Kirk Munroe
... by heart," said Paulo, a little pettishly. "I wish it were not too hot to go out; I should like to take a walk. Surely, San Miguel is the hottest spot on earth. The very fleas ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton
... replied Aunt Maria rather pettishly, for she was dreadfully tired, and moreover she ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... final 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 ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... 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 won't ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... our flesh," said Adela pettishly: melodiously remonstrating the next instant: "I really thought you could ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... to the prerogatives of the king. The pedantic presumption of James 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 the king to ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... the 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 'em with grape this time, Tom; let's see what they think ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... all a trick," cried Patience, pettishly; "I wish I had known it, I would have retaliated upon you nicely. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Major Pillichody, to lend a helping-hand in such ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... pettishly, "how I am to get this bundle into my trunk, nor where in the world this great box of sugar is to go. See! not a direction! but I suppose she is in New ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... else that his mind was beginning to wander. Things that he remembered and things that he hoped for seemed strangely present. He spoke to people who were hundreds of miles away; and, for the most part, he spoke to them pettishly or with downright anger; for in the main he felt more like a wretched, baited animal than a ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... that flush upon thy cheek, That shrinking, apprehensive air.— Oh! born with me some ills to share, But many years of future bliss, Of real, tranquil happiness; I may not think that thou wouldst choose This prospect pettishly to lose For self-indulgence! Understood, Love is the seeking others' good. If we can ne'er resign delight, Nor lose its object from our sight; And only present dangers brave, That which we dearest hold to save;— If, when ...
— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham
... not foolishness," said Aline pettishly, tears of annoyance in her eyes. "And I wish ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... me, and 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
... "Yes, just like you, Fitzfaddle"—pettishly reiterates the lady of the middle-aged man of business; "mention any thing that would be gratifying ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley
... had 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 ...
— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... 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 the long delay. ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... be your good fortune, but it's not mine," the girl said, pettishly. "It will be very dull here, without you. I know what it will be. Your mother will always be full of anxiety, and will be fretting whenever we get news of any disturbances; and that is often enough, ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty
... should choose to be out of the way at such a time as this," Esther pettishly observed. "When all is finished and to rights, we shall have the boy coming up, grumbling for his meal, and hungry as a bear after his winter's nap. His stomach is as true as the best clock in Kentucky, and seldom wants winding up to tell the time, whether of day or night. A desperate ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... home, anyhow, if you mean me," she said pettishly. She looked at Eveley. "I suppose you think it is very clever for you to be engaged to Nolan twenty-four hours without notifying me, after all the trouble I have taken in the last five years to bring it about. And as for you, Nolan, I think you have a lot of courage to marry a woman who openly ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... Mr. Gibney pettishly. "They all do such things in the banana republics. Why should I be an exception? There's half a dozen different gangs fightin' each other and the government in Mexico, and if I don't deliver these arms, just see all the lives I'll be savin'. And after I got the cargo ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... pettishly, "let her wait; listen thou. I am going to finish with them all before long; I am not going to plod on here on the farm any longer; I am going to college, lass; I am going to pass my examination and be a clergyman, like Mr. Price, or like that young curate who was stopping with him a month ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine
... capricious, Rose found, although she did not know the meaning of the word. What she wanted to-day she scouted to-morrow. Rose's reading was enough to set one wild. Sure she was not French-born, or she would know by intuition. Sometimes she would say pettishly, "Go away, child, you disturb me," and then Rose would play hide-and-seek with Pani, or run down to the Gaudrions. Marie was quite an expert in Indian embroidery, the children were gay and frolicsome, and there was a new baby. Pierre ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas
... took no notice of his sardonic harshness, and seated himself by his side, though Eric pettishly pushed him away. ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar
... was either more prudent or less vivacious; he did not answer on the instant, but stood looking through one of the windows at the leafless trees and slow-dropping rain in the Mall, and only turned when Lady Betty pettishly repeated her statement. ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... spluttered Pop, reaching reluctantly into his pocket for the money. "Jeff, he done some pullin' himself—I wish I knowed," he added pettishly, "just how big a ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... 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 ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... not smile at this little joke. She pulled pettishly away when good friend Anna placed her hand upon her forehead to see ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... thing is stuck and won't move," she said pettishly. "I think it's broken now, too, just ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... Robert was himself. Kate thought she had never liked him so well. He seemed to grow even kinder and more considerate as the years passed. Nancy Ellen was prettier than Kate ever had seen her, but there was a line of discontent around her mouth, and she spoke pettishly on slight provocation, or none at all. Now she was openly, brazenly, brutally, frank in her rejoicing. She thought it was the best "JOKE" that ever happened to the boys; and she said so repeatedly. Kate found her lips closing more tightly ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter
... through party spirit, and some from monarchical uneasiness,—desired the fall of M. de Villele, and were already preparing his successors. Even the King himself, when any fresh manifestation of public feeling reached him, exclaimed pettishly, on entering his closet, "Always ...
— Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time - Volume 1 • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... read'—and how, looking at you under those dark brows with serious softness, he said: 'Right: promises once given, must be kept. But was it not rash to promise in another's name?'—and you answered, half gently, half pettishly, 'As if you could fail me!' He took the book without another word, and read. What reading it was too! And do you not remember ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... she called, and then said pettishly, "No, Philip won't hear me either." She laughed. "He's always so stupid though, and perhaps ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... that away impatiently, pettishly. The intense and terrible longing for her arrival persisted. It was now twenty-five to three. His father would be down soon from his after-dinner nap. Suddenly the door opened, and he saw the Orgreaves' servant, with a cloak over her white apron, ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... stalked into the drawing-room, pettishly refused to accept either tea or coffee, tucked his daughter under his arm, and, having said the driest of good-byes to the company at ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... Marquis retorted pettishly, "but I don't. I don't see. And I beg to remind you, M. de Rosny, that this lad is my wife's second cousin through her step-father, and that I shall resent any interference with him. I have spent enough ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... began,' he said, pettishly. 'You'll make a fuss. You've made yourself quite nervous; and ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... expedition," said Smith, pettishly, as he saw Fred and myself examining our powder-flasks ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... 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 by the great route from Paris, or away to the southeast ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... 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 ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower
... the way with Mr. Walters," said Caddy, pettishly; "he always rouses one's curiosity, and then refuses to gratify it;—he is so ...
— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb
... that idiot's words. That's what HE says; that's what they ALL say!" returned Yerba, pettishly. "One would really think it was necessary for me to get married to become anybody at all, or have any standing whatever. And, whatever you do, don't go talking of me as if I were named after a vegetable. 'Yerba Buena' is the name of an island in the bay just off San Francisco. ...
— A Ward of the Golden Gate • Bret Harte
... is harmful, explain why, but if a child asks for a toy, do not pettishly reply: "It's nearly bedtime!" when it is not, ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs
... pettishly, for I was out of temper, hot and disappointed at not being able to go and hunt for the boat. Then I felt annoyed at having to stop at home when my father had gone to the settlement, and somehow that place had never seemed to attract me ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... "Ah," she pettishly replied, "do not speak to me! If I had not bitten you, who knows what fine things you would have put into your ...
— Undine - I • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
... when 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 ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... 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, if I ...
— Ruby at School • Minnie E. Paull
... the Countess Zamoiska pettishly, "I cannot understand you. Instead of rejoicing over the king's escape, here you begin to cry over the sins of his murderers. All Poland is exasperated against them, and nothing can save them. [Footnote: ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... from the 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 told ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... of dwelling upon the past?" said Godfrey, pettishly. "We were all very good little boys once. At least my father always told me so; and by the strange contradictions which abound in human nature, I suppose that that was the very reason which made me grow up a bad man. And bad men we both are, Mathews, ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... that expression!' exclaimed Audrey, rather pettishly. She thought Geraldine more than ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... a troublesome office," he continued, almost pettishly. "We sent out Mr. Forbes only six months ago, on account of his health, which required a warmer climate, and now his medical man reports that his life is ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens
... tore up several bunches of grass, but without eating them he threw them pettishly over his back, and tossed some from side to side. I was in momentary dread lest a horse should neigh and disturb him, as they were within 200 paces of where he stood. Everything was, however, quiet in that direction, ...
— The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker
... so, and that is enough," said the boy pettishly; "I cannot understand that I asked anything so dreadful; but I suppose you have too many needs of your own to have any resources ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... most foolish thing I have ever heard of," she said to herself, pettishly, as she looked after him. "I can't think how such an idea ever occurred to him. He must have known that even if I had not determined as I have done to devote myself to our cause, he was the last sort of man I should ever have thought of marrying. Of course he is nice and I always thought so, ...
— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty
... "Nonsense," said 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 ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... 'Nonsense!' replied she, pettishly. 'You saw the battle as well as I did. Be quick and come into the garden, and you'll see that the soldiers are no longer ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... 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 ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony
... thereabout, nor never want," said Anne a little pettishly. "'Twill be time enough when I have the years o' my grandame, I guess, to make me crabbed ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt
... said Minnie, pettishly. "How do I know who he is? I declare I'm afraid to look at any body. He'll be coming and ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... friends answering this remark except by a quiet, incredulous smile, Overtop continued, a little pettishly: ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... bother me, Priscilla," she exclaimed pettishly. "I suppose I can do as I like when Miss ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... gentleman repeatedly pressed the young man's hand, and sometimes reached up and softly patted him on the shoulder. The young man appeared to receive the words and caresses of the old gentleman with a sullen indifference. Several times he pettishly drew his hand away, and at last shook his head fiercely, folded his arms, and seemed (though the spectators could only conjecture that) to stamp the floor with his foot. At this, the old gentleman bowed his head in his hands. The young man held his defiant attitude unmoved, ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... gentleman 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
... vexatious 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 you will be good enough to resume your ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... 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 ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 • Various
... a pink bandeau, mother," replied Florrie a little pettishly, as she patted her golden-red fringe. "I wonder where Gabriella is? Isn't she ever ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... goodness' sake give up dreaming and take to reality," he said pettishly. "Explored? Yes. I remember how they say the Spaniards explored it, and butchered a lot of the poor Peruvians there like so many sheep, but they found nothing. Don't think about treasure-seeking, Hal—it's a mistake; fortunes ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... 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 ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... chap would pass us—it worries me," cried Ike pettishly. Then he went on: "Roads warn't at all safe in those days, my lad. There was footpads too—chaps as couldn't afford to have horses, and they used to hang under the hedges, just like that there dark one yonder, and run ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... and comely to look upon, came no nearer to her young sister's beauty than does the pink-tipped daisy to the half-opened rosebud uncurling slowly in the sun. At present, the girl, seeing that she was watched, turned away her head pettishly and ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various
... my daughter?" she once exclaimed pettishly to Monsieur Pettigrat. "Upon my word, I really know nothing of her except one ridiculous thing. She always dreams of running water. Now, I ask you, what can you do with a daughter so absurd that she dreams of ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason
... child, 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 ...
— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... Charlie, when he heard the broken voice say that; but, boy-like, he wouldn't own it, and said pettishly, as he rubbed his sleeve across ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... was apt to do when reproved. The children clamoured to know what had kept her, and she spoke pettishly and crossly; so that they too became cross, and presently went away into the outer kitchen to play by themselves. The children were apt to creep away when Toinette came. It made her angry and unhappy at times that they should do so, but ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... tell me 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, not ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... 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
... his 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
... had not been seventeen," she cried pettishly. "I can't see how Polly gets along with so many admirers. I do not want any. There is something in their eyes when they look at you that sends a shiver ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... watching a parade in Boston in which the Stars and Stripes were conspicuous, a fair foreigner with strong anti-American proclivities turned to a companion, and commenting on the display, pettishly remarked: ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... go out front," he said, almost pettishly. Fanny rose, without a word. She looked very handsome. Excitement had given her color. The pupils of her eyes were dilated and they shone brilliantly. She looked at her brother. He stared at her. They swayed together. They kissed, and clung together for a long ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... 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 ...
— Valerie • Frederick Marryat
... to see the gold come tumbling out like the kernel of a nut, thou zany?" asked Uncle Reuben pettishly; "now wilt thou crack it or wilt thou not? For I believe thou canst do it, though ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... 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' ye as ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... the South Pole," he muttered pettishly. "Fancy that old chap having nothing better to do with his money than spend ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... 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 the ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous
... K.," I said pettishly. "I tell you I don't care what he believes! The next thing you'll be telling me is that I ought to take a job ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole
... said the child, 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 • Marshall Saunders
... always gone," said Louis, pettishly. "I suppose Charlie has it. He had it yesterday—he might as well let me ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... learn to be humble enough in a family of such humility?' said Nina pettishly. Then quickly correcting herself, she said, 'I'll go and despatch my note, and then I'll come back and ask your pardon for all my wilfulness, and tell you how much I thank you for ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... all very well to talk," said the Mole rather pettishly, he being new to a river and riverside life and ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
... 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 in some private Page of his Heart, ...
— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning
... at all,' retorted Miss Price, pettishly. 'Look at her, dressed so beautiful and looking so well—really ALMOST handsome. I am ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... with the weight of responsibilities and accoutrements beyond his years, and stained, so that his own mother would not have known him, with the sweat and dust of battle, did as he was bid; and then pushing his trumpet pettishly aside, adjusted his weary legs for the hundredth time to the horse which was a world too big for him, and muttering, "'Tain't a pretty tune," tried to see something of this, his first engagement, before it came ...
— Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories • Juliana Horatio Ewing
... gesture of exasperation. "Ah-h! come off the perch!" he snarled pettishly, "what sort of old 'batman's' gaff are you trying ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... my fine fellows," said the first speaker rather pettishly, "but it wouldn't have been pleasant for me if I had ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... than forty-five. There was 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
... her back on us pettishly, and was talking in a low voice to her jackanapes. As for me, if my face had been pale before, it now grew red enough for shame that I had angered her, who was so fair, though how I had sinned I knew not. But often I have seen that women, and these the best, will be all afire at a ...
— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang
... and I felt a kind of irritation at it. Even when she tried, as she often and often did, to throw it off and cheer me up in some little way by telling me stories, or proposing some new game, or new fancy-work, I would not meet her half-way, but would answer pettishly that I was tired of all those things. And I was vexed at several little changes in our way of living. All that winter we sat in the dining-room, and never had a fire in the drawing-room, and our food ...
— My New Home • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... or stay, Sir Archer," said the Prince pettishly. "I will have no churls imitating noblemen in my service: I will bandy no conditions with archers ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... 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. ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... novel I can. People may think it heartless, but hearts were given us to love with, not to break." And we must deal with our sorrows as we deal with any other gift of God, courageously and temperately, not faint-heartedly or wilfully; not otherwise can they be blest to us. We must not pettishly reject consolation and distraction. Pain is a great angel, but we must wrestle with him, until he bless us! and the blessings he can bring us are first a wholesome shame at our old selfish ingratitude in the untroubled ...
— At Large • Arthur Christopher Benson
... Mr. Owl! how you made me jump!' cried the magpie, rather pettishly; 'I had nearly toppled down from ...
— Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens • Tabitha Grimalkin
... 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 ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... like yours. I need 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 severely upbraids me with ingratitude ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse
... 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 opposite. Business ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 • Various
... and flirted her fan pettishly. The creature's soul, she decided, was certainly not in his body, and until it came back he would continue to ignore her. With the annoyance of a woman who is not getting her own way, she leaned back in Braddock's one comfortable ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... daughter was both wicked and avaricious, and it was not her way to make presents. She therefore made a dash at the little hand, wished the guardian of the well evil, and said pettishly— ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian • Various
... replied Mr. Pickwick pettishly. 'Take away the boy.' (Here Mr. Winkle carried the interesting boy, screaming and struggling, to the farther end of the apartment.) 'Now help me, lead ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... 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 ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson
... 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, ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... 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 strings ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston |
