fractiousness

Ten beds, and only one occupied, by a freckled, tousled quintessence of fractiousness in a blue wrapper.

Perhaps this sort of fractiousness is the usual sign of approaching illness with children.

"Why, I depended on seeing Mr. Oldfield," said he, with the fractiousness of a man recently ill.

That veteran lady appeared to be in a state of mind which, when it occurs in children, is called fractiousness.

He feared the antagonism of the officers might be aroused, in which event we should be made to suffer for our fractiousness.