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• Orleans: What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!
• [T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
• At first he was quite peevish. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."