| 1. | Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | Inglethorp's own doctor, a portly, fussy little man, came bustling in. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | They could not understand that I have not the necessary qualifications for it--the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness necessary for the position. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |