If I'd ha' bin him, I wouldn't ha' fretted a bit—'n' I guess he didn't.
For I'n niver forgot how you looked when you fretted about the books bein' gone; it's stuck by me as if it was a pictur hingin' before me.
This attic was Maggie's favourite retreat on a wet day, when the weather was not too cold; here she fretted out all her ill humours, and talked aloud to the worm-eaten floors and the worm-eaten shelves, and the dark rafters festooned with cobwebs; and here she kept a Fetish which she punished for all her misfortunes.
She has been in love with him ever since they first met, and while my father's consent was uncertain, she fretted herself almost into a fever.
In other words, time is something to be enjoyed rather than fretted over.
Last year gold slumped as investors fretted about the Federal Reserve's first rate rise.
Now I knew my mother had liked almond cake with honey and hot tea, that she'd once used the word "profoundly," that she'd fretted about her happiness.
Though investors have fretted about a slowdown of China's economy, the Chinese government and analysts have contended that the travel industry has suffered no such drop.
They fretted that he had never managed anyone, or hired staff.
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases.
Your Degree is Meaningless All those hours you fretted about your major and wondering if it was marketable enough, if your GPA was high enough, and if your extracurriculars were impressive enough…and now you know that most employers just want to see that you've completed something.
Then the little cock was left alone with the dead hen, and dug a grave for her and laid her in it, and made a mound above it, on which he sat down and fretted until he died too, and then every one was dead.
His first betrothed heard of this, and fretted so much about his faithlessness that she nearly died.
" Then he would vex and fret himself because they did not laugh at the right time, or because they laughed in the wrong places; and so he fretted and worried himself till at last the unhappy man fretted himself into the grave.
