Lexicographical Neighbors of Pettedly
Literary usage of Pettedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Hastily, or pettedly, or despairingly, you took the wrong turning; or you might
have been dwelling now amid verdant fields and silver waters in the country ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"Assertions were re- pettedly made by Russian officials and publicists t^iit
Abdurrahman was playing a doable game. The English counted further that China ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"I have heard persons remark somewhat pettedly, that nothing is approved of which
is not English, that if it be English it is enough ; no further questions ..."
4. English Poetesses: A Series of Critical Biographies by Eric Sutherland Robertson (1883)
"... quarrel so pettedly with anonymous maligners whom she could with more effect
have silenced by silence itself. In 1846 a slight poetical effort,"The ..."
5. The Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1878)
"Hastily, or pettedly, or despairingly, you took the wrong turning; or you might
have been dwelling now amid verdant fields and silver waters in the country ..."
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