Meanings of peevish child in английском

The little man was speaking like a peevish child.

She had the feeling of a peevish child.

Behaving like a peevish child wasn't going to make Magiere wish to spend time with him.

From a peevish child he grew to be a man, and unbearably undutiful to his parents.

His face puckered like a peevish child's.

The town, like a peevish child, knows not what it desires, and is always best pleased with a rattle.

I behaved to you like a peevish child, and you retaliate by offering me the bravest venture that man ever conceived.

But she snapped back like the peevish child that she was: "An you come not when I ask you, you may stay!"

Mrs. Reddon was a little pale New Englander, apparently as fragile as a china cup, and in her arms was a mussy and peevish child.

Rereading this entry, I am ashamed at my lack of faith in my husband, and I fear my fretfulness will result in a peevish child.

Jane, a little beauty from her birth, had been an indolent and peevish child, often annoying Harry by selfish interference with their plans and amusements.

So many carry themselves to him like peevish children!

They are like peevish children who say "I won't," or surly old dogs who growl at every one.

This has been called "the stiff and starched system of muslin education," and is the nursery of pale, sickly, listless, peevish children.

"I am so tired, so tired," he would murmur, rolling his head back and forth on the pillow like a peevish child.