petulances

Billy was the eldest of us, a jiggly, awkward child who could set your teeth on edge with his constant spoon-on-salt-shaker tapping and small petulances.

November 2007 2007

Billy was the eldest of us, a jiggly, awkward child who could set your teeth on edge with his constant spoon-on-salt-shaker tapping and small petulances.

Hula Girls 2007

Far from making them impatient her petulances charmed them; and they gratified all her wishes, making each the ground of some little training.

Ursula 2006

No, not for the world; what man of sense would bear the insolences, the petulances, the expensiveness of a wife!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And now my great pleasure lay in humouring all the petulances, all the wanton frolic of a raw novice just fleshed, and keen on the burning scent of his game, but unbroken to the sport: and, to carry on the figure, who could better TREAD THE WOOD than he, or stand fairer for the HEART OF THE HUNT?

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

He pitied women for their nerves, and was always kindly tolerant of the resultant petulances.

Short Stories of Various Types Various

We admit that he makes enemies needlessly; but all fair minds must still concede that even his petulances of sarcasm are but eccentric utterances of a love of truth which has its source in the deepest and gravest sentiments of his nature.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

She tried to hide amongst the cushions again, but visions of Gypsy, with her bright inquisitive eyes, her funny little petulances, her endearing cajoleries, kept rising before her.

Missy Dana Gatlin

She became almost tolerant, allowing him little petulances and little evasions -- petty weaknesses which in complete health she would have felt it her duty not to compromise with.

The Hero 1919

When he couldn't enjoy the society of some friendly lady -- and his friends were nearly always uneasy under the infliction -- he poured forth his childish petulances and his rare imaginations on the bosom, so to speak, of society in general; and society in general flung him back in wondering contempt.

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917