"Miss Stone," he said in a voice of strained patience, "we seem to have gotten off on a rather bad foot."

It suffered his ministrations with an air of strained patience.

'I've been trying to find you,' she said with strained patience.

"That may have been true at one time," Sorok said with apparently strained patience.

Travis greeted her change in attitude with absent tolerance that changed to strained patience.

Mr. Versella walks away with an air of strained patience.

Anderson answers questions like these with a strained patience.

The Chairman showed signs of a badly strained patience.

"Don't fight me," he said in strained patience and not even a glance at her clawlike grasp.

Then Kit was striding into the open, with an expression of strained patience.