fractious

I never see Uncle Silas speak up so sharp and fractious before.

Tom was "fractious," as Roxy called it, and overbearing; Chambers was meek and docile.

Poor Clover has been a good deal troubled with her second teeth, which have made her meagre in aspect and rather fractious in temper; nor, even when she smiles, is the matter much mended, since it discloses a gap just within her lips, almost as wide as the barn door.

Then Thuvia was lifted to the least fractious thoat, Xodar and Carthoris mounted two others, and we set out at a rapid pace toward the east.

Daylight did not suggest anything, while he hung almost gleefully upon her actions in anticipation of what the fractious Bob was going to get.

The baby's awful fractious, and I'm clean worn out attending to him.

He refuses to ride my mare because she was a little fractious yesterday."

Takes fractious spells occasionally, but mostly he's just vacant and good humored and harmless.

"It's all right," she greeted him, coming out to the barn where he was unhitching a tired but fractious colt.

I, being the younger by five or six years, was always regarded as THE child, and the pet of the family: father, mother, and sister, all combined to spoil me--not by foolish indulgence, to render me fractious and ungovernable, but by ceaseless kindness, to make me too helpless and dependent--too unfit for buffeting with the cares and turmoils of life.

He got fractious and nervous, and I was obliged to let him go into the streets.

'If I find it necessary to carry you away, pick-a-back, o' course I shall leave it the least bit o' time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.' At the end of this address, which was unusually lengthy for him, Mr.