fractious child

She turned her head and nuzzled his neck, like a mother with a fractious child.

If we get any fractious children we always send for Helen.

A stern mother with a possibly fractious child, from the way she regarded her charge.

A note of annoyance crept into his voice, as if he were dealing with a fractious child.

He spoke as though to a fractious child.

Fractious children were told to go to sleep or the Hadenmen would get them.

"It is naught but a tale told to fractious children to ease them into slumber."

Elorie moved her head from side to side, like a fractious child.

"Exactly so," Khezal said, like a mother seeking to calm fractious children.

I felt the hot tears on my cheek and I caressed her back as a mother might calm a fractious child.

I seemed to hear a voice, like a mother soothing a fractious child or a huntsman a wounded fustigar.

She lay one cool, plump hand against his forehead,tsk'd and brushed his hair back, as if he were a fractious child.

Usually Artai behaved like a fractious child, his temper uncertain, his demeanour abrupt and discourteous.

Dancing to popular music by three composers, Ms. Jausch progressed from angst to Middle Eastern sultriness and ended as a fractious child.

His hands grasped her shoulders and then trailed down her arms, soothing her as if she were a fractious child, and he rubbed his cheek against her hair.

The behaviour of fractious children, several parents confided, was the only fear for the day, but despite lost balloons, far-flung toilets and grass-stains on baby princess dresses, spirits stayed high.

They do not necessarily want him back on the throne, but they want Baba, as he is called, back in the country as a father figure to pacify fractious children.

Alas, Utopia,z Rodenbeck had written in the wake of the Children's Revolt, 'thou retreatest from immorbid grasp as a cricket from fractious children.

Having granted me the status of hound for the rest of our shoot and filling two sacks with the booty, the lieutenant orders me to an early bed like a fractious child, on our return to the castle.

All of us with families know that one can travel many miles, arrive in a caravan site late at night, maybe with fractious children, and certainly not have the energy to go and check out whether the camp-site is in fact safe.

A large, hotel-style lodge in Kenya's Masai Mara might suit families better than an intimate camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where fractious children are going to scatter the wildlife and disturb other guests.

The animatronic figures that sing and dance above and around the food displays in the store are designed to distract fractious children so their parents can concentrate on buying, he pointed out, and the whole experience is about entertainment, albeit food-based.

Art recoils, growing steadily smaller, tetchier and more tentative, shrinking like a 20th-century Alice, except that, where she retained her imperial dignity unimpaired, he regresses to a tearful fractious child dwarfed by the conflicting pressures of a fragmented adult world.

There's something terrible inside the box, something that would terrify even Barlow, the wily vampire who forced Callahan to drink his blood and then sent him on his way into the prisms of America like a fractious child whose company has become tiresome.

Henry moved among them, ushering them to seats, lending a hand with heavy bags and fractious children, passing out candles as he did at evening services (white tapers with a paper collar to keep hot wax from dripping on the fingers), urging them to make themselves comfortable until the night was over.