I should ill deserve God's blessings, which, since the late terrible event, have come down in mercy upon us, if I indulge in regret or querulousness.

querulousness about it; yet, hang it!

His wife's quick temper sometimes took fire at his querulousness; but her many actions, which spoke much louder than her words, showed how deeply she loved him and how proud she was of his genius.

His querulousness takes away much both from the agreeableness and the use of his moral writings.

Henceforward he was, with some short intervals, a prey to querulousness and disease.

disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c 833; repining, taking on &c v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c (lamentation) 839; hypercriticism. inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear &c 860.

" Lisbeth Bede was going on, for she was not at all afraid of Sethwho had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his motherand usually poured into his ears all the querulousness which was repressed by the awe which mingled itself with her idolatrous love of Adam.

" "Not at all, not at all," the younger clergyman answered, in a languid tone, with a kind of habitual half-querulousness which belonged to it,the vocal expression which we meet with now and then, and which says as plainly as so many words could say it, "I am a suffering individual.

Only there was on the last occasion a special anxiety, and a more than usual persistence and querulousness which seemed to say, "Don't go too far away, and come back soon, so that we may meet again before my eyes grow dim and my ears lose their keenness.

" "Sire," said De Luynes approaching the monarch, the querulousness of whose manner warned him that unless he caused him to fear for his personal safety Louis would rather retire from the struggle than brave the anger of his mother, of whom he even now stood as much in awe as he had done during his childhood, "I see that the moment is at length come in which I must peril my own security in order to ensure that of your Majesty.

The call-notes of the Chicadee are very lively, with a mixture of querulousness in their tone, that renders them the more pleasing.

I was about to tell her I had seen him decently buried,of course omitting descriptions of the how and where,when the grandmother, who had been watching us with the impatient querulousness of age, hobbled across the room to ask "what that 'are man was a-talkin' about.

But recognizing an additional querulousness in his voice, she laid the book aside and patiently folded her hands in her lap.