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Examples
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Querulous Squirrel – poor you – my heart went out to you reading this.
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Querulous Squirrel – I think you would be extremely interested in the Lessing.
The Past Is Another Country « Tales from the Reading Room 2008
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Querulous or peevish is just as bad as loud or pompous. it It made him seem immature, not ready to play with the big boys.
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Querulous he was and ill-tempered with the scoffers.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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Querulous to the ancient dame who traveled with her she had been from the start, and more than querulous to the two black-eyed maids whose sole apparent duties were to divine my lady's wishes before they could be expressed in words.
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Hopelessness of Greek and Roman view — Pathological unhappiness — "Anhedonia" — Querulous melancholy —
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And now let some of you lament that fearful hour wherein Foulques the Querulous held traffic with a demon and on her begot the first of us Plantagenets!
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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And woe to England for that fearful hour wherein Foulques the Querulous held traffic with a devil and on her begot the first of us Plantagenets!
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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Querulous with superiors, captious to equals, insolent to subordinates, and opinionated in the superlative degree, totally unfitted him for command at a most important point and at a most critical juncture.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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Querulous and watchful, like some aged, rickety ape, the old man drew out his trinkets in shallow shelves.
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Owen Wister 1899
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