1043 examples of fretted in sentences

He told me, upon my resolving to do so, that although he would continue his passive observance till I knew the issue of my application, yet I must expect, that then I should not rest one moment till I had fixed his happy day: for that his very soul was fretted with my slights, resentments, and delays.

[Sidenote: orehanging firmament,] Roofe, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeares no

High o'er the trackless heath, at midnight seen, No more the windows ranged in long array (Where the tall shaft and fretted arch between Thick ivy twines)

It has more resemblance to the rill that trickles over its fretted channel, than to the stream that winds with a full tide, and "warbles as it flows."

She had a veil like fretted pearls through which her tinted arm shone faintly, and the shadow of a single scarlet leaf trembled through a curtain upon her forehead.

In the early morning the East Cliff generally appears merely as a pale gray silhouette with a square projection representing the church, and a fretted one the abbey.

When painters hovered beneath the fretted ceiling of that library, it was to thank the oracle of the day, not always for large orders, but for powerful recommendations.

Fretted by rains, peeled by frost, splintered by lightning, it must down at last; and crumble into earth, were it as old, as hard, as lofty as the Matterhorn itself.

It was the success of the Liberal cause which fretted me inwardly.

A gentle wind fretted the loose tendrils of brown hair about her face.

As if I had not had trouble enough about your dower!If I had had to fight for it, I should not have minded:but these palavers and conferences have fretted me into the gout: and now you would throw all away again, tired with your toy, I suppose.

Wild, sad, and solitary, amid the wave, Iona mourns her pious founder's grave; Still o'er his tomb these fretted columns pay Their crumbling dust, a tribute to his clay.

Two young men fretted a little, and claimed to be disabled in some way.

Of these, the false Achitophel was first; 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.

He fretted his very heart away.

However fretted by these teasing and almost humiliating discussions, Dryden continued steadily advancing in his great labour; and about three years after it had been undertaken, the translation of Virgil, "the most noble and spirited," said Pope, "which I know in any language," was given to the public in July 1697.

All the world is fretted by his folly, knowing that his faith in the world's might is no longer firm-set, and that he aspires to what is beyond the world's giving.

A sunny stillness brooded over it; long shadows from the pointed turrets lay upon the fine white sand of the driveway and dipped along the gray walls of the château, which the hand of man had fretted with lace-like sculpture.

With a sudden impulse he entered and leaned against one of the fretted columns.

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

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.

When the misfortune came, it was still his own perturbation of mind, which had worn and fretted him so that he could not meet it as he might have done.

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.

An obelisk made an exclamation-point against the sky, or the ruins of a temple fretted the horizon.

Doubtless the material is as much irritated by the spiritual as the poetic is fretted by the prosaic.

1043 examples of  fretted  in sentences