fretted

• “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

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

  The Lost Girl

• “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

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

  Guitar Friday: The Power Chord!

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  Chapter 11

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

  An Odyssey of the North

• “The arches of the encircling arcade were of fretted white marble that had taken on just enough tender green to prevent any glare of reflected light.”

  CHAPTER XXVIII

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