fretting

• After an hour's fretting, therefore, seeing no other remedy, he even determined to go and communicate his loss to Mr. Wild, in hopes of receiving some benefit by his assistance, the loss consisting not so much in the value of the things as in the disappointment it would be to the nobleman not to have them on the birthday. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• All lions can be solitary if they have to—but for preference they love to fornicate He was fretting, and you were very fond of him. —  Two For The Lions
• Lambda has demonstrated successful production programs to significantly improve foreign object damage (FOD) tolerance, fretting, and high cycle fatigue endurance limits while completely mitigating stress corrosion cracking with state-of-the-art CNC production technology and process control.
• During my month of whining, fretting, and being generally dissatisfied with things I managed to get more practice in with watercolor portraits. —  The EDM SuperBlog
• The fretting, the hand wringing, the "what if" thinking - it doesn't get me much besides broken nights of sleep. —  life@work

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