“I have never seen O'Brien descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night.”

“The old petulance, the bearlike hunching ill-temper of his bachelor days has vanished.”

“Calderwood was so angered by the petulance he refused to acknowledge his midfielder.”

“You see this is Sir George himself, my dear, a mixture of petulancy and indelicacy.”

“Mr. Van Riper had more cause for his petulancy than he would have acknowledged even to himself.”

“He was the first martyr to Aurelian's petulancy, being beheaded on the 22d of December, in the same year.”

“The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion, for that affinity they find in it.”