querulous

His wife was coming downstairs, querulously, waveringly; her eyes red from weeping.

Now it was filled with an afternoon glow, like powdered gold, and the querulously sweet piping of an early robin.

"No, I ain't goin' to get out again, Norm," he said querulously.

"We'll have to carry the cannon on the canoes, and maybe they'll fall into the river," said Alloway querulously.