fret and fume

He spent ten minutes at the phone while the others fretted and fumed.

Nature will not have us fret and fume.

I fretted and fumed, trying to think of something, getting pretty sore at myself because I couldn't.

All that fretting and fuming, working yourself to flinders!

Brandy, more active by nature, fretted and fumed; her thread kept getting into knots.

Weeks became months, and he fretted and fumed.

I sat and thought while Uncle Freddy fretted and fumed.

I fretted and fumed all next day, and raised a great disturbance,' rejoined the old gentleman.

It was all legal, and though they might fret and fume, they were stuck with it!

He had fretted and fumed.

Pacing in Veles, it fretted and fumed, like a cartoon lawman stopped by a painted border.

All this fretting and fuming is bad for you - your whole life would change if you could just acquire my own tranquil outlook."

All hell would break loose and then no more worrying and fretting and fuming; he'd hit straight up that road with everything he had.

But Kang fretted and fumed.

She fretted and fumed over how to disobey Logain, and then did everything necessary to carry out his instructions without even thinking about it!

To fret and fume with impotent rage;

'Will you stop fretting and fuming?'

Therefore, we need fret and fume, and worry and doubt no more, but just lie still and put up with privations for six months.

But in Alexandria, reading her reports, Cleopatra fretted and fumed, considered writing to Antony to urge him into an Italian war.

At first he merely fretted and fumed a little; then when the halt became tediously long, he sent his driver forward to see what was the matter.

and when told that it would arrive sometime during the day, she fretted and fumed, and whipped her doll, till Daisy was shocked.

I must say Liddell is a fine fellow and keeps his patience and temper wonderfully; and yet how he does fret and fume about trifles at home!

Unable to subdue or subvert Raju, a frustrated set of cronies (Harry, Dyer, Simon and others) fret and fume.

Their elders fret and fume and jeer at the train that holds them up, but boys happily count and cry the names of the cars as they pass from far places.

In vain the faithful Aylward fretted and fumed and muttered a prayer that the day would come when he might feather a shaft in the merchant's portly paunch.