complainingly

He mewed complainingly, a puzzled note in his voice.

There is no one else who could be such a friend to both of us." Fred paused a moment, and then said, rather complainingly, "And she ought to acknowledge that I have worked in order to pass.

The eyes, weasel-like and cruel, were looking at him complainingly.

"She is my mother," said Colin complainingly. "I don't see why she died.

A voice answered from within: "Tell him I cannot see anyone," it said complainingly.

"What's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for?" said Lisbeth complainingly, as he came downstairs.

'If you must break the habit of a lifetime,' said Mr Mifflin, complainingly, 'I wish you would wait till we get ashore.

Some months afterwards, one evening when the kitchen had been swept, and the door locked, Jean-Pierre, looking at the cot, asked his wife: "What's the matter with those children?" And, as if these words, spoken calmly, had been the portent of misfortune, she answered with a loud wail that must have been heard across the yard in the pig-sty; for the pigs (the Bacadous had the finest pigs in the country) stirred and grunted complainingly in the night.