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    querulous example sentences

    querulous


    1. Youssaf’s querulous sidelong, glance at her, having caught Moshe’s alert eye, triggered rapid-fire thoughts, That smart Youssaf wonders at my predicament


    2. they really stop this thing? His panic had turned to sudden, if querulous, relief


    3. We‘ll find help—we‘ll be fine…‖ Can struggled to finish, avoiding Elise‘s querulous inflection and hiding the expression on his painracked face


    4. "Have the men been saying their hands are sore, Minnie?" she asked, in the faint, querulous voice that would not give in


    5. "The jeweller began eating his supper, and the woman, who was ordinarily so querulous and indifferent to all who approached her, was suddenly transformed into the most smiling and attentive hostess


    6. Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having "let it slip through my fingers," and said we must memorialize by and by, and try at all events for some of it


    7. like his uncle Anthony, Merthin observed, with downsloping lines of querulous discontent around his mouth


    8. One gets unsettled, depressed, and inclined to be querulous


    9. "One moment! one moment!" cried a querulous voice, and we looked up to find a queer little old man, jerking and twitching in the doorway


    10. The bishop militant’s former brash confidence had been replaced by a querulous anxiety which saw a heretic hiding under every leaf and rock

    11. illness, and his misfortune made him querulous and nervous


    12. All day he had been querulous in manner, and now some remark of Lord John's as to what we should do on the morrow brought all his bitterness to a head


    13. ’ he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous voice suddenly shrieked: ‘but if I hear that you have not ashamed!’


    14. ‘On the contrary,’ he said, in a querulous and angry tone that contrasted with his flattering words, ‘on the contrary, your excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been accustomed to win in their battles,’ he concluded his


    15. He passed into the next room, and the deep, querulous sounds of his voice were at once


    16. "We are two querulous old pots with nothing to do but kick off, and make a circus of that


    17. “Why are we stopping?” Percil demanded in a voice as pinched and querulous as his face


    18. "One moment—one moment!" cried a querulous voice, and we looked up to find a queer little old man, jerking and twitching in the doorway


    19. Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression


    20. ” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous voice suddenly shrieked: “but if I hear that you have not behaved like a son of Nicholas Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!”

    21. “On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently prearranged sentence


    22. He passed into the next room, and the deep, querulous sounds of his voice were at once heard from there


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    Synonyms for "querulous"

    fretful querulous whiney whiny abrupt carping caviling complaining discontented peevish

    "querulous" definitions

    habitually complaining