"Why was I not man enough to stand my ground when things looked black?" Carrisford groaned in petulant misery. "I believe I should have stood my ground if I had not been responsible for other people's money as well as my own. Poor Crewe had put into the scheme every penny that he owned. He trusted me--he LOVED me. And he died thinking I had ruined him--I--Tom Carrisford, who played cricket at Eton with him. What a villain he must have thought me!"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Vizard was pleased with the old lady. "This is sagacious," said he, "and shows an eye for detail. I recognize in your picture the foxy sex. But, at this moment, who can foretell which way the wind will blow? You are not aware, perhaps, that Zoe and Fanny have had a quarrel. They don't speak. Now, in women, you know, vices are controlled by vices-- see Pope. The conspiracy you dread will be averted by the other faults of their character, their jealousy and their petulant tempers.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
He turned round petulantly, almost with the air of a spoiled child, to his mother, as he said those words. She had been looking fondly and proudly on him the moment before. Now her eyes wandered disconcertedly from his face; she hesitated an instant with a sudden confusion which seemed quite foreign to her character, then whispered in his ear,英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Father," faltered the girl. Either because his formulated thought was now completely knocked out of his mind by his own emphasis in defending it, or because he detected something of portent in her expression, his manner suddenly changed, and with a petulant glance at his writing he laid down his pen and sank back in his chair to listen. " Well, what is it, my child ?英文原著 · 《Active Service》
You noticed, I can see, the handwriting. Was it Sir Horace's?" "No," replied the secretary. "Whose was it?" "I think--I think, Mr. Stafford--that it was Lady Betty's. But I should be sorry, having seen it only for a moment--so say for certain." "Lady Betty's?" Mr. Stafford repeated the exclamation three times, in pure surprise, in anger, a third time in trembling. In this last stage he walked away to the window, and turning his back on his companion looked out. He recalled at once his wife's petulant exclamation of yesterday, the foolish desire expressed, as he had supposed in jest.英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
But once your dad comes to his senses and stops being petulant, - He'll come home. - What's petulant?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
He also thinks you're a petulant, whiny, spoiled brat, just like I was, and that's gonna kill your career, - just like it killed mine. - I thought you were successful.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I refuse to be defeated by a petulant and overweight tyrant.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》