Another interval of hard breathing, and then the organist of Saint Cow's asks: "Di'you hear anything drop?" "Yshir, th'larrer got throwed, f'rimpudence to a gen'l'm'n," is the peevish return of OLD MORTARITY, who immediately falls asleep as he lies, with his lantern under his spine.

I see you're peevish, and you shall be humour'd.

Ay, ay, the Plot's discovered, what shall I do?Why, the Devil is not in her sure, to be refractory now, and peevish; if she be, I must pay my Money yetand that would be a damn'd thing.sure they're coming outI'll retire and hearken how 'tis with them.

To please the peevish humour of a Woman, Who in that point only is a Fool.

Go, you are a Woman, a vain peevish Creature.

Set Galatea's Charms before your Eyes, Think of the Glory to divide a Kingdom; And do not waste your noble Youth and Time Upon a peevish Heart you cannot gain.

Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.

Cross, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, irritable, irascible, angry.

Said one among them"Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again." Then said a Second"Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy;

"Say, he got awfully peevish and was mad enough to crush a grape when he found out that he couldn't have the 'spot' when he does his duet number with the ingenue, and when he found out that he would have to dress with the character comedian, who is a low, coarse brute, always drinking beer in the dressing room and not sharing with anybody, he got so mad I thought he would burst into tears.

They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society, which debars them from its privileges.

If he were less peevish and morose all would be well.

That poetical school-girl, who smiled and scattered daisies on the head of her lover, as he knelt before her, has become the adored wife of a dull tallow-chandler; and the other one, who took the ivy for her emblem, and who said to her sweetheart: "I cling till death!" has clung to and separated from half-a-dozen others without dying, and has finished by fastening herself to a rheumatical old churchwarden, peevish but substantial.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick, and a sick heart is but too apt to be a peevish one.

Tis strange to see how suddenly this abject Passion kills all the noble Sentiments and generous Ambitions that adorn Humane Nature; it renders the Man who is over-run with it a peevish and cruel Master, a severe Parent, an unsociable Husband, a distant and mistrustful Friend.

"It is like your impudence to be asking such personal questions as that," Mrs. M'Crawney retorted lightly, with a smile which showed her good-looking when she was not peevish.

You perhaps expected to hear that he fretted and petted very much after he was first blind, but really it was not so; and though occasionally he may have grumbled a little, it was only when he was slightly peevish, as children will sometimes be, and I believe he would have found something to grumble about then, even if he had seen as well as you do.

She wrote laborious books, full of short peevish sentences, of such very pure construction that they were extremely difficult to understand.

It is not easy to imagine a more unhappy condition than that of dependance on a peevish man.

Such are the arts by which the envious, the idle, the peevish, and the thoughtless, obstruct that worth which they cannot equal, and, by artifices thus easy, sordid, and detestable, is industry defeated, beauty blasted, and genius depressed.

The same detail and the same advice he would have repeated on the second day; but as I every moment diverted the discourse to the history of the towns by which we passed, or some other subject of learning or of reason, he soon lost his vivacity, grew peevish and silent, wrapped his cloak about him, composed himself to slumber, and reserved his gaiety for fitter auditors.

3. "Imbitter'd more and more from peevish day to day.

" "Francesca," I said, "are you not more than a little peevish this morning?" "I have no patience," she said, "with notices that have to be served.

Lord Chatham raised his head, and for the first time since the attorney's entrance looked at him with a peevish attention. '

So, of course, rather than be peevish, I done it.