Lexicographical Neighbors of Peevishnesses
Literary usage of Peevishnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854)
"These peevishnesses 1 have been a witness to a long time. It is envy at bottom.
They see the superiority of the Massachusetts to every one of them, ..."
2. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1857)
"... peevishnesses and uneasy accents of sickness, and spend themselves in trifling
instances ; and in the bett more sanctified, it goes off in prayers, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"... petty resentments, and peevishnesses of all sorts; driving him to that wretched
alternative, intoxication, to' procure an oblivion for his annoyance. ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... their wilder joys and freer meals, their loss of time and their too forward
and apt compliances, their trilling arrests and little peevishnesses, ..."
5. The World's Great Sermons by Grenville Kleiser (1908)
"... their wilder joys and freer meals, their loss of time and their too forward
and apt compliances, their trifling arrests and little peevishnesses, ..."
6. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"... their wilder joys and freer meals, their loss of time and their too forward
and apt compliances, their trifling arrests and little peevishnesses, ..."
7. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard (1828)
"... and peevishnesses, which were abroad, he valued no more than the motes in the
sun. But that the Parliament should now dispute his office under whose ..."
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