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The condition of which Dull Knife complained with so much petulancy and bitterness continued to exist during the winter.

At the head of our adherents in the National Assembly was General Lamorici�re, and I greatly dreaded his petulancy, his imprudent observations, and especially his idleness.

He was accustomed to act with the usual arrogance of a Crown Prince and the petulancy of an invalid.

We feel satisfied that few of the ladies who take a peep into this mirror, will find any cause to break it in a fit of petulancy after having looked upon the attractive reflection of their own lovely features.

From his youth he lived in all manner of wickedness; and thus, with a singular petulancy from nature, he performed the office of a satirist for the faction, not so much from the quickness of his wit, as from the sourness of his temper.