Citations:querulously

English citations of querulously

• 1855-1857 - Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book I, chapter 35

  It was his last demonstration for that time; as, after shedding some more tears and querulously complaining that he couldn’t breathe, he slowly fell into a slumber.

• 1861 - Francis Colburn Adams, An Outcast, chapter XXXII

  "There, you want to see somebody! Always somebody wanted to be seen, when we have dead folks to get rid of," mutters the old man, querulously, then looking inquiringly at the visitors.

• 1891 - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 5

  "He is not a gentleman, Mother, and I hate the way he talks to me," said the girl, rising to her feet and going over to the window. "I don't know how we could manage without him," answered the elder woman querulously.

• 1900 - Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, chapter 43

  Thereafter Cornelius did not open his lips except to ask querulously for somebody to bale out his canoe, which was towing behind the long-boat.

• 1901 - Edith Wharton, The Valley of Decision, chapter 15

  "My private actions," said he querulously, "are too jealously spied upon by my ministers. Such surveillance is an offence to my authority, and my subjects shall learn that it will not frighten me from my course."

• 1902 - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, act iv

  MRS WHITEFIELD. [querulously] There now! put it on me, of course.

• 1907 - H. G. Wells, The War in the Air, chapter IV

  "I wish to 'eaven I 'adn't these silly sandals on," he cried querulously to the universe. "They give the whole blessed show away."

• 1912 - Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

  Then a large bear, a grizzly, crashed into view, and likewise stopped abruptly, at sight of the humans. He did not like them, and growled querulously.

• 1922 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  The old man looked placidly from one to the other for a moment, and then suddenly spoke in a cracked and ancient voice. "Are you my father?" he demanded.
  Mr. Button and the nurse started violently.
  "Because if you are," went on the old man querulously, "I wish you'd get me out of this place--or, at least, get them to put a comfortable rocker in here,"

• 1956 - Andre Norton, Plague Ship, chapter XVII

  "If we're heroes," Dane asked a little querulously, "what are we doing locked up here?"