How To Use crossness In A Sentence
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- The Crossness Pumping Station was the key element, housing as it did, four magnificent rotative beam engines built by James Watt and Company.
- His crossness about the fact that Head of News at the BBC is now a woman fills me with awe.
- By 3pm the tide had turned and the boats were approaching the Crossness sewage outfall at Belvedere.
- This accompanied by noises of exertion, crossness or frustration, emotional or physical as appropriate.
- Sean simply hadn't understood, because of his crossness. Archive 2009-01-01
- If you guys hadn't stood up, burnt your bras, vocalised your crossness and proved yourself as vocal and as argumentative as your male counterparts, then probably I would be in the relaxed position I am today.
- As the car swept away, with Brown in the back seat, he exploded in crossness to his aides, calling the encounter "ridiculous" and a "disaster. Prime Minister Makes Old Granny Cry!
- We know that a long period of gloomy weather leads to suicides, and we observe that long-continued clouds and rain beget "crossness" and ill-temper, and we are all familiar with the universal exhilaration of sunshine and clear air upon any company of men and women. As We Go
- Eventually Mathew got over his bout of crossness.
