10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETTISHNESS»
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PETTISH, PETTISHLY, PETTISHNESS— PETTY. (1882); The Unspeakable Gift (
1884); Views and Beviewi in Eschatology (1887). His books had wide circulation,
and made many converts in this country and abroad, where they were ...
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Brenda, Her School and Her Club
In her case there had been little more than pettishness in her first attitude towards
her cousin — the pettishness of a spoiled child. Yet this pettishness, which left to
itself would have seemed of little account, — hardly worth noticing, when ...
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The student's English dictionary, the pronunciation adapted ...
Playing the pettifoggt Pettily, pet'ti-H. adv. Ina- Pettiness, pet'ti-nes, n. manner. ; lit
- Petting.pet'ing.ppr. Fondling; lndulg- j pet'ish, a. In a pet; fretful; peevish.
Pettishly, pet'ish-U, adv. In a pet; with a freak of ill-temper. Pettishness, pet'ish-
nes, n.
John Ogilvie, Richard Cull, 1865
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American encyclopedic dictionary
Proceeding from or characterized ny pettishness, peevish, fretful : inclined to ill-
temper. "Poverty brought on a pettish mood." Wordsworth: Excursion, bk. i. p8t -
tlsh-ly\ adv. [English pettish; -ly.] In a pettish mannor; poovislily, fretfully. " Poorly ...
Robert Hunter, John Alfred Williams, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, 1897
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The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary: An Exhaustive ...
Proceeding from or characterized oy pettishness, peevish, fretful ; inclined to ill-
temper. "Poverty brought on apetttsh mood." Wordsworth: Excursion, bk. i. pSt'-
tlsh-ly", adv. [English pettish; -/jr.] In a pettish manner ; peevishly, fretfully. "Poorly
...
Edward Thomas Roe, Le Roy Hooker, Thomas W. Handford, 1907
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The Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New and Exhaustive ...
Scribner's Magazine, May, 1880, p. 110. pSt'-tlsn, *p$t'-lBh, a. [Eng. pet; -ish.]
Proceeding from or characterized by pettishness, peevish, fretful; inclined to ill-
temper. "Poverty brought on a pettish mood." Wordsworth: Excursion, bk. L pit -
tlsh-ly\ ...
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The Homœopathic Examiner
21. sudden start, and trembling during sleep — uneasiness and nocturnal pains
which force the patient to quit the bed — moral excitability — pettishness —
excessive fear of death — madness. GASTRITIS. BRYONIA. Primitive symptoms.
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English life, social and domestic, in the middle of the ...
... that no love on our parts to our children, or our pupils, will secure us from
temptations to caprice, or pettishness, or injustice, if we are not on the watch
against the vacillations of health, and spirits, and temper, in ourselves. I say on
the watch, ...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, ed. with a critical mem. ...
... expressed in the celehrated " Fare thee well " — to helieve that his regret at the
step adopted hy his wife was essentially very hitter. The pettishness of society (if
it was indeed pettishness and partisanship, and not, as there may now at ...
George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), William Michael Rossetti, 1881
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The Use of the Body in Relation to the Mind
I observed," he says, " that in proportion as our strength decayed, our minds
exhibited symptoms of weakness, evinced by a kindof unreasonable pettishness
with each other. Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and
...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PETTISHNESS»
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Jibril Sado: Re: How to treat a naked woman - A rejoinder
That will amount to pettishness and narrow-mindedness. Nay, this is one too many of the different actions that are meted against the womenfolk ... «DailyPost Nigeria, Dec 14»
9 Unsettling Meals In Literature
Polly, their only palatable member, endures a self-inflicted martyrdom of her family's personal quirks, pettishness, and food theories, every ... «Huffington Post, Feb 14»
FRANNY AND ZOOEY
Of course, the Glasses condemn the world only to condescend to it, to forgive it, in the end. Yet the pettishness of the condemnation diminishes the gallantry of ... «New York Times, Jan 10»
'Tis Pity She's a Void
Chris Celotti is full of lyrical pillow talk as Daniel, but with a distant air that increases as he quickly retreats from heavy petting to pettishness. «East Bay Express, Nov 08»
