Example Sentences

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Now that she had it in her hand it seemed to her amazing that Mrs. Potten, with her big income, should have fussed over such a small matter.

From The New Warden by Ritchie, Mrs. David G.

Seem to have fussed a bit over it, too.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill

They could not have fussed more if it had been a baby.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Had Billy Sunday been in the regular theatrical business he would not have fussed with a little independent theatre.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

The colonel, exercising his owner's prerogative, would have fussed about The Rogue until the last minute.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton)