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As low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

william wordsworth

— Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

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"But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?" "Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of fold as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is."

philip pullman

— Lyra and the seaman Jerry, in Ch. 10 : The Consul and the Bear

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Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an-end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 15.

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Go gather by the humming sea Some twisted, echo-harboring shell, And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be, rewarding in melodious guile fretful words a little while, Till they shall singing fade in ruth And dies a pearly brotherhood; For words alone are certain good: Sin, then, for this is also sooth.


— William Butler Yeats, "The Song of the Happy Shepherd".

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And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I sc.v

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When the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.


— William Wordsworth, lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.

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And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.


— Ghost, scene v
— Variant: Most modern publications modernize this phrase to "Like quills upon the fretful porcupine."

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