Significados de querulous tone en inglés

These replies were usually in a querulous tone, and were often apparently unwilling.

The question came in an uncharacteristically querulous tone.

Her son's querulous tone made her sigh helplessly.

When he next spoke, it was, in a less querulous tone, to ask what there was for dinner.

Mrs. McDonald asked, in a half- querulous tone, as if she did not altogether approve of her daughter's acts.

In a high, querulous tone she cried "Ca-a-sh!

A nurse with a querulous tone has a restless nursery; she makes the high-spirited contradictory and the delicate fretful.

Neville is already morphing into a manager himself, however, and his own frank, slightly querulous tone is already maturing nicely.

The second sat close to the flames, feeding them twigs and branches and complaining of the wind in a querulous tone.

I can hear the querulous tone of his voice now; I can see the tapestry that hangs above the table in their hall.

Her querulous tone fitted her lackadaisical looks; her house dress had too many flounces on it; she had a paper-covered novel in her hand.

In the silence, Angie's querulous tones rose sharply from the other side of the door.

But Mr. Allen was out of hearing of the querulous tones before the sentence was finished.

Then he exclaimed in uncouth, querulous tones:

'Lamb ate nothing, and complained in a querulous tone of the veal pie.

He grinned again when he caught the mildly querulous tones of Sudden Selmer, sharpened a little by the transmitter.