"You could give me a hand," muttered the peevish voice.

She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other.

"I really must not carry heavy things again," began Gwendoline, in her peevish voice.

The Lieutenant protested in the peevish voice of a shrewish young wife.

His peevish voice was the last thing Felix remembered before unconsciousness took him.

I just know,' the old man cried in a peevish voice.

Get on with it,' said a thin peevish voice from the air beside him.

"Take all you want," Braun said in a peevish voice.

"I thought it best to return, Willis," said the old man, in a peculiar, peevish voice.

So she called, and eventually Maiden's peevish voice came over the channel.