unfretful

Three or four of the whorls are removed to provide an unfretful but firm grip.

Tropic Days 2003

There is sadness in the air, but it is of an unfretful gentle sort, almost sweet; the sadness of a solitude visited by high thoughts, memories of calamity softened in retrospect, present crosses made supportable by faith and the light cast on the path already of an approaching event which is to mark a new epoch in the life of the Order.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

So to live tranquil days and unfretful, moving in quiet through a still land rich in old tradition -- this was an experience of peace which no dreams of imagination could surpass, a freshness of joy penetrative as the fragrance of unplucked wayside flowers.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905

Three or four of the whorls are removed to provide an unfretful but firm grip.

Tropic Days 1887

Aunt Miriam thought that gentle unfretful face could not stand in need of much discipline.

Queechy 1854

Aunt Miriam thought that gentle unfretful face could not stand in need of much discipline.

Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852

Aunt Miriam thought that gentle unfretful face could not stand in need of much discipline.

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

"Carol," with deep reproach in her tone, "though my life here with you is one which the 'Elizabeths' of Society shun and condemn, I believe, in the peaceful atmosphere, the blessed quiet, and sweet unfretful days, I have been a better woman.

When the Birds Begin to Sing Harold Piffard