It warmed me to hear that fretful, obnoxious little voice.

She spoke in a humbly fretful voice as if her mind were intent on something else.

The man said in a fretful voice, "Roosley at this end.

"Go 'way," he told Trixie in a weak, fretful voice.

After a pause she rapped again, and cried out in a fretful, high voice: "Let me in.

"I am tired," he said in a fretful voice.

"Get out of the way, please," he called in a fretful voice.

"They hang on like leeches, can't seem to shake them off," she complained in a fretful voice, as though talking to herself.

From an adjacent cubicle a woman's fretful voice was raised.

From inside the cubicle the fretful voice rose sharply: "Do be careful!