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Meanings of petulant tone in English

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Usage of petulant tone in English
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The voice had now grown stronger, with a petulant tone through it.
The Tides of Barnegat
2
She suddenly dropped her half- petulant tone; she suddenly ceased to be a spoiled child.
The Masquerader
3
Nora said in pseudo- petulant tone, "I've been damned with very faint praise."
The Big Fix
4
I don't like it, she added, in a petulant tone.
The Long Vacation
5
The other answered, in a petulant tone, "I a'n't going to school."
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
6
Brand, in a petulant tone; I won't be kept out of my rights any longer.
A True Friend: A Novel
7
In a curt and half- petulant tone, she answered,-
Mercy Philbrick's Choice
8
In conversation their voice is raised to a high pitch, or assumes a whining, petulant tone.
The Long Labrador Trail
9
A raven brow arched at her petulant tone.
When darkness comes
10
Louise grinned down at her sister's petulant tone.
The Reality Dysfunction
11
His stark expression eased at her petulant tone and a tiny smile tugged at his lips.
Darkness revealed
12
In a high, petulant tone he said: No, of course they won't have the information here, Dixon.
Lucky Jim
13
The petulant tone was merely an artifice.
The Jervaise Comedy
14
As soon as he had pulled up his horse he called out in a petulant tone, Well!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
15
As they were all going out together, the assistant surgeon said to them, in a petulant tone of voice:
A Romance of Youth — Volume 4
16
She had not readily recovered from the petulant tone of anger with which Janet told her not to come peeping and worrying.
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
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