| Parents should not forget their childhood years, how much they yearned for sympathy and love, and how unhappy they felt when censured and fretfully chided. |
| Businessmen get hotter around the collar, and the dancers look fretfully away. With reason. |
| Virgo chewed on his lip fretfully as he finished the letter. |
| Father stirred fretfully, trying to throw off the heavy quilts. |
| His red thistlescrew was askew on his head, and he had been in such a hurry, searching fretfully for his groovesreader, that he had put on the wrong boots. |
| Dance stood ready, but there was no boathook, and he fretfully asked what he was to do. |
