The juice of the ortis plant had transformed her from a nervous, fretful baby into a lively child who was interested in everything.

He looked, thought the minister, like a fretful baby.

In O Sacas, a black-garbed grandmother sang traditional a cappella folk songs to a fretful baby as other members of the extended family sat by the fire.

Eliza Rothchild had made her debut on stage at the age of six months as a fretful baby causing her parents distress in a drawing room comedy.

It was 1950, and he was 5, and had been going to movies since he was a fretful baby and his parents discovered that movies calmed him down.

Kids raced everywhere at once, bawling of fretful babies rose through the air cord ant music.

As Goldmoon approached the cradle, she saw that another figure hovered over the fretful baby.

And there's the added advantage that fretful babies can be soothed when mothers want to get on with other important jobs around the house.

'Ian was a very fretful baby.'

From the blackest shadows behind the anchor chain came the high, thin wail of a fretful baby.