单词 | common scold |
例句 | In the colonial United States and Britain, women who talked too much and started fights were labelled “common scolds” – recommended punishments included making them wear gags or repeatedly dunking them in water to simulate drowning. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, Bowser expressed commitment to reworking the city’s criminal code, which includes outdated laws such as banning games with balls on city streets and being a “common scold.” Bowser budget plan defunds panel that advised criminal code rewrite 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The overhaul would modify existing statutes that use outdated language, such as references to “common scolds,” which are individuals who disturb the peace by arguing with their neighbors. D.C. Council is rewriting the criminal code. Not everyone is happy. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z It is thus that I would see America, not as schoolmistress or common scold to the nations, but as chosen leader by example, rather than by authority. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Ducking-stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Eight years later the Grand Jury of Burke County, of the same state, presented Mary Cammell as a “common scold and disturber of the peacable inhabitants of the County.” Curious Punishments of Bygone Days "Don't go at him like a common scold," Orr engagingly pleaded at one stage of the game. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident If a woman became a common scold, she was placed near her own door, with a gag fastened in her mouth, that all might see and beware of her example. The Greater Republic A History of the United States We gather from a newspaper report that in 1889, the grand jury of Jersey City—across the Hudson River from New York—caused a sensation by indicting Mrs. Mary Brady as a "common scold." Bygone Punishments I have tried not to be a common scold and avoided being vicious when I could. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated I could do nothing, though I talked till I was no better than a common scold. Still Jim At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy. From Place to Place The instances of barratry and of common scolds, I believe, are the only exceptions. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 Mrs. Royall's tongue at last became so unendurable that she was formally indicted by the Grand Jury as a common scold, and was tried in the Circuit Court before Judge Cranch. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Then I stopped, for Follet was hardly himself, nor did I like the look of myself as a common scold. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Treason was punished with death, and common scolds were ducked in a pond until they were glad to hold their tongues. The Leading Facts of English History His wife was a common scold an' led him th' life he desarved. Mr. Dooley Says A vulgar flaunt is the flaring day, The impudent, hot, unsparing day, That leaves not a stain nor a secret untold, — Day the reporter, — the gossip of old, — Deformity's tease, — man's common scold — Poh! The Poems of Sidney Lanier He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 I'm here merely in the office of chaperon and common scold. The Iron Trail He had the tongue of a common scold, and he used it with malevolent abandon. Rainbow's End Is it because we are better at being common scolds than at being wise advisers that we prefer little reforms to big ones? On Being Human Roosevelt came, quite naturally, to set the doer above the critic, who, he thought, quickly degenerated into a fault finder and from that into a common scold. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography |
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