I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.