Querulous

Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity, and by the middle of June Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope, that by the following Christmas, she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the war-office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.

“Remember this, Prince Andréy, if they kill you it will hurt me, your old father …” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous voice suddenly shrieked: “but if I hear that you have not behaved like a son of Nikoláy Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!” “You need not have said that to me, Father,” said the son with a smile.

His father was querulous and stubborn, with an iron will and a wasp’s tongue, but he did believe in taking care of his own.

What do you want?” he cried in a high-pitched, querulous voice, looking first at Hermione, then at Ron, and finally at Harry, upon which his mouth fell open in a perfect, comical O.“Hello, Mr. Lovegood,” said Harry, holding out his hand.

“ ‘Well,’ said the jeweller, as he placed himself at table, ‘all I can say is, so much the worse for those who are abroad.’ “ ‘Yes,’ chimed in La Carconte, ‘they will have a wretched night of it.’ “The jeweller began eating his supper, and the woman, who was ordinarily so querulous and indifferent to all who approached her, was suddenly transformed into the most smiling and attentive hostess.

The querulous voice of a hotel maid, but very distant.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

Joyfully he thrust message and envelope into a pocket but keened in querulous brogue: ―It’s what I’m telling you, mister honey, it’s queer and sick we were, Haines and myself, the time himself brought it in.

He was astonished, and gazed wonderingly at me, for the meek words were unlike his father’s querulous obstinacy.

“Must we have a Trial of Possession?” “Who are you to speak of trial?” Alia asked, and her voice was that of a querulous man, an autocratic and sensual man far gone in self-indulgence.

Then he tapped the jester on the shoulder and whispered, in a querulous boom, loud enough that it could be heard easily over the noise of the train, “Go and make jokes at them, Tooley.

↩︎ This refers to the querulous and egotistic tone in which dedications were often written.

‘Aren’t you even going to punish me?’ he inquired with querulous surprise.