fretted

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They fretted, they grew querulous.

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  1. Adorned with frets or fretwork; exhibiting sunk or raised ornamentation in rectangular forms; having many intersecting groins or ribs. Yet then no proud aspiring piles were rais'd, No fretted roofs with polish'd metals blaz'd. Pope, tr. of Statius's Thebaid, i. Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold. Tennyson, Arabian Nights.
  2. In heraldry, interlaced one with another: said of any charges which can be so combined: as, a chevron fretted with a bar.
  3. Fret fretted. See fret, n.

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  • For a moment I fretted, then reminded myself that my brother could take care of himself. —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • As she fretted, the tiny community hurtling through the interstellar void at one-third light-speed grew ever more anxious and uncertain Timidly at first, but in swelling numbers, the comments came: Their isolation was becoming unbearable. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
  • It was in vain that I fretted, and offered him twice, and four times, and, finally--with a desire to see how much in earnest the man really was--ten times his regular wages if he would go with me for just one hunt. —  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
  • "Are you glad you have come home It isn't my home," he replied, as if the word fretted him. —  The Lost Girl
  • Nervous and fretted, he every minute raised to his lips the tall crystal funnel where the bubbles were dancing in the living, translucent fluid. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
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