querulous literary

She could hear the professor's querulous voice from the front of the hall.

He can be querulous, particularly on behalf of his work.

So the demanding and querulous wife had died at last.

Harry could not catch the words of the querulous voice.

Then his voice grew querulous as he saw the expression on her face.

I heard the door open, and the Admiral's high, querulous voice.

I would rather place myself in the service of some querulous old woman as a lady's companion.

In his early fifties, he was becoming a querulous old man.

She started up as a man's rather querulous voice came floating down the stairs.

There was a click and the querulous voice began complaining.

But it grew querulous in the presence of human beings.

A querulous voice gave an order to come in.

When he looked up at me I made a querulous face at him.

The querulous tone of the match was reflected early on.

From the darkness a querulous voice said: "What is it?"

The bellow came again, but this time with a querulous note.

She added her querulous screeching to the sound of conflict.

Instead he returned to his querulous question of earlier.

Then a querulous speaker cut in with a protesting opinion.

"That really aggravates me," he said in a querulous voice.

One of the strangers is a querulous 12-year-old girl named Morse.

After a couple of minutes, a querulous voice issued from the intercom.

The affection of old people is often exacting and querulous.

In all that time, not an impatient or a querulous minute can be remembered.

The priest glanced behind him, then back to where the querulous voices were coming from.