querulousness

Into the silence his voice came with an old man's querulousness.

Miss Fellowes tried to keep querulousness out of her voice.

She appeared unfazed by his querulousness and his foul language.

Freddie's voice was taking on a rising querulousness.

His need to grasp at hope, however faint, was beginning to outweigh his natural querulousness.

He seemed primarily concerned that Catholics were being given an impression of Jewish querulousness toward the church and its leader.

Querulousness was out of the question.

Still, it would be an adventure, and a chance to learn something of the world beyond the dismal confines of their querulousness.

"You're really serious about this," Wycombe-Finch said, a faint querulousness in his tone.

Hadrenn's voice contained the hint of a querulousness.

But it is only his querulousness, thought he; and so filling his glass he proceeded to business.

He heard a donnish querulousness in his tones and subdued it with a not too proper gruffness.

He squinted at him with jerky querulousness.

But there's a dismissive querulousness to many of Leland Edwards's observations about the people around him.

The probability of any signal from him accomplishing any good, however, had to be weighed against the querulousness it would reveal.

Mr. Abramson said the querulousness among Simpson jurors would be overlooked in other trials.

It activates the brain, induces a frenzy of querulousness and makes one want to scribble in red ink up and down the margins.

Her voice shifted to that of a powerful old man's, with none of the querulousness Skif expected. " '

But what do quantities matter, provided we can use a human belly and palate to produce querulousness, impatience, uncharitableness, and self-concern?

With the passage of years he had lost his querulousness and now accepted the conse- quences of his extraordinary behavior on the roof.

A journeyman had been unobtrusively assembling the various items, and he handed them to Menolly, giving her an amused wink for his master's querulousness.

And secondly, with this overbearing snobbishness went a querulousness which sprang from his complete lack of understanding of the functions of a governor.

When she wore her wig, she did not look too bad, but she had become weakened and a certain querulousness had crept into her discourse.

Yet there was one breach in the wall of security and a note of querulousness entered in his voice as he said, "Why did you leave him, Gladia?

But there was the old twinkle back of the querulousness in the Old Man's eyes, and the old pucker of the lips behind his grizzled whiskers.