The wind whistled through the twigs and fretted the occasional, dirty-looking crocuses.
In this economic crisis, many have fretted that the EU has been eclipsed by responses at national level.
The story touched off a minor panic as politicians and media outlets fretted that the Kremlin could plunge parts of America into cold, snowy darkness.
The Swedish Academy need not have fretted; not only did dinner go smoothly, but before King Gustaf's reign was over, he, too, would be accused of a love affair, also with a married man.
The Devil knew it well, and fretted it continually with the touch of his burning finger!
I fretted and took to arguing with myself whether or not I would talk openly with Kurtz.
The little fretted stone rose-window above the door was in particular a master-piece of grace and lightness―a star of lace.
All the time you spend thinking and worrying about what needs doing could be spent getting a vast percentage of it out the way, never to be fretted about again.
And a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.
A stringed instrument of India that has a long, fretted fingerboard with resonating gourds at each end.
They said that carving out the corridor would require unprecedented use of eminent domain to swallow private lands, and fretted about traffic from Mexico and the cost of tolls.
She fretted that she would not be able to protect her child. She had nightmares.
A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.
For days the boy fretted about his lost dog.
“The problem is the shoot will be on Monday, but I will be in L.A. for meetings, which means for four days it’s me alone in this giant, empty S.U.V. in the city of the Prius, ” Mr. Seo fretted.
Zhang Yuankui had harvested his rapeseed; now he fretted over whether he could plant rice in time for September's crop.
The little CARES that fretted me, I lost them yesterday, Out in the field with God.
The thought that her best time, that might have been spent in loving him, was being wasted like this for no object, continually fretted her.
The chair has fretted into the wood and damaged it.
The Devil knew it well, and fretted it continually with the touch of his burning finger! But he hid it cunningly from men, and walked among you with the mien of a spirit, mournful, because so pure in a sinful world!
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