His mother vibrated nervously, and his father's winds grew so unruly that two of the golems came around to the cave to make their slow, peevish complaints.

Zaum made a peevish complaint or two.

She looked up from her work and uttered a peevish complaint.

Hermione Hoby of The Observer expressed that "though [Stone's] mighty voice is technically irreproachable throughout, every track is attacked with all the timidity of a tsunami-enough to prompt the peevish complaint that force and feeling are not the same thing."

Save for the occasional peevish complaint by Snagtooth, there was no talking as they worked: only the scrape of tusk and stamp of foot, the hissing of breath through upraised trunks.

1 Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up.

Most remarks addressed to staff members are peevish complaints.

The role of the spoiled family cat Snowbell (Mr. Lane) has been beefed up, and Mr. Lane turns the character's every peevish complaint into an amusing comic barb.

Trewan at once brought forward a set of peevish complaints, while Aillas looked on and listened in slack-jawed wonder: how could Trewan be so insensitive?

He whined a peevish complaint.