"There is a pleasant time in store for you, /Madame la Marquise/," said M. d'Aiglemont, setting his coffee cup down upon the table. He looked at the guest, Mme. de Wimphen, and half-pettishly, half- mischievously added, "I am starting off for several days' sport with the Master of the Hounds. For a whole week, at any rate, you will be a widow in good earnest; just what you wish for, I suppose.--Guillaume," he said to the servant who entered, "tell them to put the horses in."英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
She turned her head round on the pillow as she spoke, pettishly, but with such engaging grace, that a mother could scarcely have taken it amiss. Just then a wailing cry echoed through the next room, a faint prolonged cry, that must surely have gone to the heart of any woman who heard it.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"I know what you are going to say, mother!" Moina broke in pettishly. "I am to be lectured about Alfred--"英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
'Well, say no more about it, Sir Condy,' said my lady, pettish- like; 'I was a child then, you know.'英文原著 · 《Castle Rackrent》
"True, true, my good friend," said I; "I was a fool then, and did not think I could incline to be Glentanner with L200 or L300 a year, instead of Glentanner with as many thousands. I was then a haughty, pettish, ignorant, dissipated, broken-down Scottish laird; and thinking my imaginary consequence altogether ruined, I cared not how soon, or how absolutely, I was rid of everything that recalled it to my own memory, or that of others."英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
Shucks almighty!" spluttered Pop, reaching reluctantly into his pocket for the money. "Jeff, he done some pullin' himself--I wish I knowed," he added pettishly, "just how big a fool you air."英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》