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At first, whenever this happened, his wife fretted extremely -- _fretted_ is the right word, for it was more a fitful chafing than a positive grief.

Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

"It isn't my home," he replied, as if the word fretted him.

The Lost Girl 1907

I "fretted" -- as the servants expressed it -- to such an extent as to affect my health; and I fancy it was because my father's attention was called to the fact that I was fast fading after the mother and sister whose death (and my own loneliness) I bewailed, that he roused himself from his own grief to comfort mine.

A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

Typically you only play the "fretted" strings, not all six strings, when playing a power chord.

Guitar Friday: The Power Chord! Michael Alan Nelson 2009

You would have 'fretted' me terribly if you had not, for I liked it myself, knowing it to be an earnest opinion and expressive of the man.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

Rising out of the gulf below was what we took at first to be a rounded hill of black rock, oblong in shape, from which projected a gigantic shaft of stone ending in a kind of fretted bush that alone was of the size of a cottage.

Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890

You would have 'fretted' me terribly if you had not, for I liked it myself, knowing it to be an earnest opinion and expressive of the man.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

Meanwhile Captain Jamie fretted his head off and prepared for the night, while Winwood passed the word along to the forty lifers to be ready for the break.

Chapter 3 2010

I had observed that Pasquini fretted at my delay of speech-making, and I resolved to fret him further.

Chapter 11 2010

Mr. Ulysses knew too much to start on without animals, and fretted around for several days.

An Odyssey of the North 2010