Fretful Quotes
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As low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— 1870 Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza 6.
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.
"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
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.
And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I sc.v
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.
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."
