For keyed or fretted instruments a compromise is indispensable.
The necessity of devising compromises with men who had formerly been his tools fretted him both in mind and body.
France, and was fretted almost beyond endurance by the quarrels of Federalist politicians over the distribution of commissions.
Thence over the whole southward stretch to Mizen Head in county Cork is found that physical appearance of a cliff-bound coast fretted with deep fjord-like inlets and fringed with many islands, which throughout the world is almost wholly confined to western seaboards.
The west coast, on the other hand, including both shores of the great south-western promontory, is minutely fretted into capes and bays, headlands and inlets of every size, and an island-group lies off each of the more prominent headlands from Land's End northward.
