fretfully

"I call fretfully as my baby birds, sunblocked and behatted flit off down the street.

Erika Schickel: Baby Steps 2008

"If it don't rain soon," she called fretfully, "I guess you'll find yourselves alone an 'forsaken, like pelicans in the wilderness.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

"If it don't rain soon," she called fretfully, "I guess you'll find yourselves alone an 'forsaken, like pelicans in the wilderness.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

Mrs. Martin was out of bed, calling fretfully into the passage for Dilman.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

"See how you worry sister!" for Lucy was calling fretfully,

Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

At that moment Banford’s voice was heard calling fretfully, crossly from upstairs.

The Fox 2003

While she was singing, the sick boy had lain motionless; but now he began to nestle, and called fretfully, "Water!

Polly of the Hospital Staff Emma C. Dowd

He spent his days staring at a mindless stream of numbers running down his computer screen and his nights tossing fretfully in the guest bed.

Curb Appeal Ann Wahlman 2011

While I don't doubt that every effort will be made by profit-driven corporations to develop ways to produce goods even if rare minerals are fully depleted, the gulf between now and a future where minerals can be safely reclaimed and reused is fretfully wide.

Boing Boing 2009

There are few places to turn around on the twisting road, and so you continue, fretfully, until finally the road begins to descend and you spy some white buildings in a bend up ahead.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011