All his fractiousness, restlessness, and innumerable wants were easy to put up with; she loved the child.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
He looked up at her swiftly and suddenly, and she saw that his agony of sorrow was acute beneath all his attempts at superiority, his courteous fractiousness, and his set face.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson
And he quite lost his old liability to sudden freaks and fits of noisy fractiousness about trifles-when he would stamp and rave and curse and swear, and be quite pacified in a moment: "Soupe-au-lait," as he was nicknamed in Troplong's studio!
"The Martian"
George Du Maurier