Fractious In A Sentence

Definition of Fractious

• Some horses are made fractious by having the check-rein so tight as to weary the muscles.
• This was risky work on a fractious pony, and some of the riders preferred wading to riding.
• There's a tray for each, of course; but a ball dress is such a fractious thing.
• O fractious eddies of the brandish'd tongue, Such words as in no law-court ever rung.
• Now he was elderly and lived alone, save for a fractious old man-servant, in a straggling old moss-covered house, or group of houses.
• For my own part I but faintly remember him, he having been killed by a fractious horse when I was a very small boy.
• His tone was grave; indeed, too much like reproof to a fractious child to suit Beatrice's pride.
• Oh, I remember, you saved the life of an old woman, who would have been trampled to death by a span of fractious horses.
• He apt to be mighty fractious sometimes, and maybe he cuss you when you try to 'suade him but he need somebody what understand him to be 'round wid him.
• Suddenly a fractious horse jerked away from the man who had been standing at its head holding it, and whirling short about, half-overturned the wagon to which it was hitched and raced wildly down the street.

• The chauffeur here is a fractious idiot.
• Another account charges the breakage to a fractious team.
• Never had he seen Theodora in a more fractious mood.
• His voice had a fractious tone, as if he combated an unseen tyrant.
• Now and then Dil had to leave off and comfort the fractious babies.