| From the time he returned he was a man in a hurry, fretful, ambitious and, no doubt as his wife found, difficult to live with. |
| Activists and candidates, fretful about the coming general election, understandably want a quick fix. |
| Passengers once glad to stand in line grow fretful as officials frisk grandmas' bags for tweezers. |
| A traumatised soldier of the American Civil War deserts to get home to his fretful wife. |
| Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy. |
| His disheveled hair became even more messy when he ran another fretful hand through it before he started the engine. |
