Example Sentences

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This evil then had not happened! a cursed cross accident for us, too!—Heigh-ho! nothing else, I think, in this mortal life! people need not study to bring crosses upon themselves by their petulancies.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

The lower animals seem to have certain of our foibles, and antagonisms, and unreasoning petulancies.

From The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers by Burroughs, John

Rosabelle! the petulancies of misfortune claim our pity, not resentment.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)