querulous
Definition: Habitually complaining
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Ethan Frome - By Edith Wharton
...querulous drone ceased as I entered Frome 's kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker ....
Before Adam - By Jack London
...The expression in his eyes became plaintive and querulous, and he was greatly perturbed ....
A Poor Wise Man - By Mary Roberts Rinehart
...`` I wo n't be bothered with any dog, " said the querulous voice, from the darkness ....
The Mystery of Metropolisville - By Edward Eggleston
...But more than that was he moved by her diligent management of the household, her unwearying patience with the querulous and feeble-minded sick woman, her tact and common-sense, and especially the entire truthfulness of her character ....
Pride & Prejudice - By Jane Austen
...Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and by the middle of June Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears,--an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope, that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...Nothing was stir-ag except a brindled, gray cat, which crept from the thes, and saluted me with a querulous mew ....
The Count of Monte Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, Pier Angelo Fiorentino, Henry Valentin
...The jeweller commenced 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 ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton, Philip M. Parker
...He had found the old lady depressed and querulous ....
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - By James Joyce
...-- In the middle of the hall the prefect of the college sodality was speaking earnestly, in a soft querulous voice, with a boarder ....
Daisy Miller - By Henry James, Harry William McVickar
...I3ut Miss Miller did not make this remark with a querulous accent; she appeared to be in the best humor with everything ....
This Side of Paradise - By Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
...There was the ghastly, stinking crush of the subway--the car cards thrusting themselves at one, leering out like dull bores who grab your arm with another story; the querulous worry as to whether some one is n't leaning on you; a man deciding not to give his seat to a woman, hating her for it; the woman hating him for not doing it; at worst a squalid phantasmagoria of breath, and old cloth on human bodies and the smells of the food men ate--at best just people--too hot or too cold, tired, worried ....
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James
...but not quite querulous sigh and remained silent again ....
Sons and Lovers - By David Herbert Lawrence, John Albert Macy
...she asked, in the faint, querulous voice th \* would not give in ....
Of Human Bondage - By William Somerset Maugham
...The women were often querulous and ill-tempered ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace, Joseph Autier
...Fruits from the Pedius--genuine--such as the singers of Antioch take of mornings to restore the waste of their voices, " the dealer answers, in a querulous nasal tone . "...
The Mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, William Robertson Nicoll
...He looked up in Tom 's face with a querulous desire for some assurance . "...