And he suspected that her nature tended toward shrewishness, which he, as a soldier who despised any pettishness, personally disliked. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They then separated; Mrs Harrel half angry at remonstrances she thought only censorious, and Cecilia offended at her pettishness and folly, though grieved at her blindness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Captain Jekyl threw away the remnant of his cigar, with a little movement of pettishness, and began to whistle an opera air. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yet afterwards, in the course of the ensuing day, she seemed to have recovered, not merely her spirits and resolution, but a sort of flighty levity, that was foreign to her character and situation, and which was at times chequered by fits of deep silence and melancholy and of capricious pettishness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She could hear the pettishness in her own voice, and hated it. ❋ Jan Burke (2008)
They are gentle and affectionate in captivity — full of tricks and pettishness, like spoiled children, and yet not devoid of a certain conscience, as an anecdote, told by Mr. Bennett ❋ Unknown (2007)
I know not; but so it was, that he stamped on the floor with pettishness, and then checking himself, burst into a violent flood of tears. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then, according to her custom, she rebuked herself for her pettishness and ingratitude and determined to make a reparation to honest William for the slight she had not expressed to him, but had felt for his piano. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The sense that she was observed, or, more properly speaking, that she was watched by my looks, seemed to give Diana a mixture of embarrassment, pain, and pettishness. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But really there was something quite charming in her pettishness: it looked so much more like innocent distress than ill humour; and the severe Adam felt no movement of disapprobation; he only felt a sort of amused pity, as if he had seen a kitten setting up its back, or ❋ Unknown (2004)
He rose, but did not take leave, and returned the slight and somewhat haughty salutation of Vivaldi, with an inclination of the head, that indicated a pride without pettishness, and a firmness bordering on contempt. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Hence her flight from her own family, if it ever came, would be laid more to the door of a temperamental pettishness than anything else. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Whimsical fate has played upon it a grim practical joke, flattering it primarily by resemblance to a grotesquely valorous unicorn, and then, having changed her mood to mere pettishness, finished it offhand by adding a section of semi-animate seaweed. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Her elegant sprightliness was certainly deserting her, giving place to a kind of fixed pettishness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Could I but see you once more and ask forgiveness of you all for my seeming pettishness at times. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult. ❋ Unknown (2002)
"I should have been perfectly all right," she protested with slight pettishness. ❋ Neels, Betty (1977)
Loveday picked up the book again and read the next few pages with increasing pettishness. ❋ Neels, Betty (1974)
Wordsworth, who had some of the irritability and pettishness, mildly described by himself as "gentle stirrings of the mind," which occasionally render great men ludicrously like children, and who was, moreover, highly conservative after his early democratic fever had passed off, grew more and more liberal with advancing years. ❋ Various (N/A)
An hour in the open banished her pettishness, and she drove rapidly along the narrow, twisting, unfamiliar road, finding a wild pleasure in her reckless speed. ❋ Ethel Hueston (N/A)
