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Daniel Gross on why the markets may be waiting for Boehner and the fractious Republicans to blink.

We expect to be caught with chaff, like fractious colts coquetting with the halter and secretly not unwilling to be caught.

Happily was it that he was exempt from all those fretful, fractious feelings to which aged people are occasionally subject.

They had not bread to quiet the fractious hunger cries of their children.

He spoke as to a fractious child, and his voice was kind and helpful even though his inflections were not cultured.

In Luther's days, how little they knew the magnitude of the results pending that controversy of fractious monk and haughty pope!