It is beyond all bearing that one great measure after another should be delayed, or mutilated, year after year, by such a body, and I chafe and fret inwardly to a painful degree.

He was always a delicate boy, and had I suppose, therefore, been specially petted, and he fretted continually for "papa".

The disappearance, unexplained as yet, Of the great man, his mind doth sorely fret; Comfort from his return and health are still his prayer.

Oliver told him how sadly Dolly had fretted after him, and watched for him at the door, hour after hour, to see him come home again.

Finally, without fretting yourself unnecessarily, be possessed of a "noble dissatisfaction" with vague half-knowledge.

I feel at times like fretting sadly over him, and wish I knew if he was alive or dead, but then the Lord do comfort one, and I know He sees just where he is, and He'll let me know when the right time comes.

If he dropped a leaf on the surface it would hasten down stream, and toss about and fret impatiently against anything that stood in its way, until, making its escape, it would quickly hurry out of sight.

Near this were the privy-chamber and the King's bed-chamber, together with a wide gallery, one hundred and twenty-three feet in length, wainscotted and roofed like the presence-chamber, but yet more gorgeously fretted and painted.

Yet did she inly fret and felly burne, And all her blood to poysonous rancor turne: [* Overlaid, overcome.]

" She did not insistwhy fret him to confess what she knew the instant she read "Schulze" on the box?

Quietly to myself I fretted intensely for my mother, and for the daily sympathy and comradeship that had made my life so fair.

He sent to fetch the surgeon who had the healing of him, and said to him, 'My friend, tell me, I pray you, if there be any danger in setting me on the march; me-seems that I am well, or all but so; and I give you my faith that, in my judgment, the biding will henceforth harm me more than mend me, for I do marvellously fret.'

" "Fret not the lad needlessly with those fanciful notions of thine," Fra Gianmaria had retorted with much asperity.

"The pillar'd porch, elaborately embossed; The low, wide windows with their mullions old; The cornice richly fretted of grey stone; And that smooth slope from which the dwelling rose By beds and banks Arcadian of gay flowers, And flowering shrubs, protected and adorned.

It seems this Person is of so sullen a Nature, that he knows but little Satisfaction in the midst of a plentiful Fortune, and secretly frets to see any Appearance of Content, in one that lives upon the hundredth Part of his Income, who is unhappy in the Possession of the Whole.

On the whole, the somewhat Calvinistic teaching tended, I think, to make me a little morbid, especially as I always fretted silently after my mother.

Little John, Little John, If he comes no more, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, We shall fret full sore!

He would worry and fret over it trebly in anticipation, and the actual task itself was to him probably ten times as irksome as it would be to most others.

During his exile a fresh interment took place in this island cemetery, that of his last canine favourite, the poor 'Chevalier de Perlinpinpin,' who, after vainly fretting for his absent master, died at last of sheer grief and loneliness.

And alway, I did be fretted in the heart, that we could make no greater speed; but, indeed, as you shall perceive, our going did be but a slow thing in the dark places, and even thus we had many a sore tumbling and bruising.

But wherefore fret myself with hopes so vain?

A slight stretch of the imagination turned many of the beautifully fretted pieces into miniature birds and other admirable designs for sweetheart brooches.

This plague-spot had fretted more deeply than any other into the heart of the school morality, and the least boys seemed the greatest proficients in unbaring without a blush, its hideous ugliness.

He scented another confounded thing he could not understand, and he fretted dreadfully in his efforts to "laugh the thing down."

"De nex' day he did n' 'pear ter be as peart ez yushal, en w'en night come he fretted en went on wuss 'n he did de night befo'.