I was a bit fretful in the back of the big silver car that had been sent to pick me up. |
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Then there are the stories of faraway lands and long journeys through fretful nights. |
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Regardless, we witness the former queen of Naboo become little more than a fretful hausfrau. |
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Activists and candidates, fretful about the coming general election, understandably want a quick fix. |
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Passengers once glad to stand in line grow fretful as officials frisk grandmas' bags for tweezers. |
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Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky. |
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So, did 400 million citizens and voters queue in blistering heat of 40-plus to soothe the fretful nerves of the market? |
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Meanwhile, the sharpening air threshes the veteran bronze leafiness of the oaks and strips the pines, fretful in the breeze, of their needles. |
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Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety. |
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And as for the public library, who could dream of taking a fretful infant in there? |
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Perhaps they could sell a book about it to guilty, fretful western mothers. |
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Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin. |
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Tiernan performs with the casual ease of a natural raconteur, but the appearance belies an almost fretful perfectionism. |
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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. |
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She rarely dreamed, but she did that night, fretful visions of tight-held jesses and the clipping of wings. |
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A traumatised soldier of the American Civil War deserts to get home to his fretful wife. |
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They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled. |
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Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy. |
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His disheveled hair became even more messy when he ran another fretful hand through it before he started the engine. |
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Mr Royama and others are likely to find the coming week a very fretful one indeed. |
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It was not a message we ever heard from Shakespeare, who, increasingly fretful about the fate of kings, retreated into the ruminations of King Lear and a litigious retirement. |
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When we did arrive on the ground, I thankfully handed J.R. his fretful daughter, went to claim my luggage and found that my favourite overnight dressing case was missing. |
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For fretful parents, they were a hangout for hooligans cutting class to play Pac-Man, losing hours and quarters that could be spent in the fresh air and wholesome sunshine. |
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When he spoke, his voice, though fretful and agitated, was deep and noble. |
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Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month. |
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The strident unwholesomeness proves oddly refreshing in the show's ambience of fretful compunctions. |
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No makeup, a trace of hair on her cheeks, fretful lips, her open mouth like a grommet in canvas. |
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Like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, the fretful marionettes pondered what life would be like without Sarkozy. |
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This strong and capable woman is fretful about what to wear for a dinner freighted with emotion. |
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But in these fretful times, no one seems to be fretting much about the country's heavy reliance on foreign funding. |
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I only wish I had such eyes, the King remarked in a fretful tone. |
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For fretful parents the new devices may just mean still more grounds for worry. The same technology also enables snooping on adults. |
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Parents, when you feel fretful, you should not commit so great a sin as to poison the whole family with this dangerous irritability. |
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The hip-carry position is suitable for short distances, at home and at parties if the baby is getting tired and fretful. |
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A baby's fretful wail came from an adjoining hall-room, where, in the semi-darkness, three recumbent figures could be made out. |
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I spoke with mothers fretful and tearful about their bleak prospects but struggling to maintain a facade of optimism and cheerfulness in the presence of their children. |
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At the cash desk, you simply put your goods back into the Easyshoppingbag, shut both aluminium bars and set off for home: no extra repacking or fretful fiddling with plastic bags! |
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Harriet was fretful and insular. Miss Abbott was pleasant, and insisted on praising everything. |
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Selznick was appropriately fretful from the start about length. |
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Three goals against the Netherlands in their opener offered a teasing glimpse of their promise, but sleepless nights and fretful days took their toll on the Qatari youngsters as they tired and collapsed under pressure. |
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The Roma remain fretful despite government efforts to promote the currency change, which included a 40-stop tour by professional Roma theatre troupe named Romathan to Roma slums in the Slovak countryside. |
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A fretful infant will settle down contentedly to the strains of a lullaby. |
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The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes. |
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Young people are impatient to make things happen according to their desires: older people are fretful when things do not turn out in accord with their expectations. |
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As Cassidy says, if they appear fretful and desperate to avoid the fiscal cliff at all costs, they could delegitimize their own hard line on tax cuts and give Republicans more negotiating power. |
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The cast includes a seasoned drunk, a honey-tongued scandalmonger, a veteran who can never quite synchronise lines and moves, and a fretful worrier anxiously seeking the motivation for every piece of comic business. |
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In the run-up to the release of Point de suture, Parisian journalists experienced fretful days and sleepless nights trying to generate well-informed copy about Mademoiselle Farmer. |
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