| 单词 | shrewish |
| 例句 | “Now that is a thing I have not heard for a long time,” she said sharply, and Wang Lung saw a handsome, shrewish, high-colored face looking out at him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And on that occasion— “Smith!” screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Although she's mother to nine children by two fathers — an enormous pack of shrewish daughters follow her around like a litter of pit bulls — Alice is forever focused on her pride and joy, Dicky. Wahlberg Punches Above his Weight in The Fighter 2010-12-09T06:00:00Z Costa-Jackson goes for a broadly comic and oddly shrewish Musetta, setting aside charm and seductiveness in a role that is set up to walk off with the show in her pocket and often does. Seattle Opera welcomes back live audiences with a moving ‘La Bohème’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s all about bitterness and disappointment, as the shrewish, hypersensitive Baoli ruins her husband’s life and then moves on to her son and mother-in-law. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival Offers Sturdy Hollywood Themes 2013-06-28T22:13:41Z In these pages, however, the editors paint Millar as a shrewish, selfish harridan, even though Macdonald and Welty always speak of her with respect and affection. ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’ review: The rich friendship of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z She gets lonely, bored, shrewish and increasingly determined to advance her own career, even though her creative plans don’t sound all that promising. Amy Sohn’s ‘The Actress,’ a Tom Cruise Roman à Clef 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z His shrewish, uptight bully of a wife, Lyn, is somewhat unsympathetic. Theater Review: ‘Apple,’ Vern Thiessen’s Play, at the Drilling Company Theater 2013-04-23T22:10:49Z It plays even more ironically in the wake of the recent firing of the New York Times' first female editor, Jill Abramson, and the descriptions of her management style as, well, shrewish. Angelina Jolie is wickedly good in the not-quite-classic 'Maleficent' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z If only my shrewish, cackling wife and my dumb, ugly children weren’t here to ruin everything. Mulder for Bernie: who would your favorite TV characters vote for? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The rejected women appear shrewish, needy, shallow or boring. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Once the papers are signed, the innocent bride becomes a bullying, shrewish spendthrift, a transition that is nicely handled by Ms. Buratto. Review: ‘Don Pasquale’ Returns to the Met, With a Bravura Aria and More 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Throughout history, postmenopausal women have been variously considered sexless, shrewish, whorish, dangerous, hysterical and pointless. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z McCarthy goes nicely pianissimo for a change, playing it fretful rather than shrewish. Review: Bill Murray Bestows Some Grace on St. Vincent 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z You read a million scripts and you are always like the doting girlfriend or the shrewish wife, but always defined by the man. Jennifer Westfeldt: Not just Don Draper's other half… 2012-06-02T23:05:57Z What is the difference between a “thin pretext” and a valid request, other than whether the asker is Philip Roth or his shrewish, sinus-clogged wife? Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “Vinegar Girl,” her 21st novel, drags shrewish Kate into the modern age. Anne Tyler loathes Shakespeare. So she decided to rewrite one of his plays. 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z She went on to appear in a range of dramatic productions, notably replacing Uta Hagen in the early 1960s as the shrewish Martha in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 There may be only two women in this opera – Rosina, who has become the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and the housekeeper Berta – but they have handbags full of shrewish intelligence. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z The finale is especially cruel to Hammond’s shrewish but devoted “cougar” Selene — whose high-tech revenge is not so sweet. In ‘Ed, Downloaded,’ love and memory go high-tech 2014-02-10T23:26:12Z Grandpa had a bad fall, and his shrewish second wife wants him carted off to a nursing home posthaste. Review | ‘The Dog of the North’ finds a lovable woman in darkly funny straits 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z A woman fights back when her fiance’s shrewish mother tries to destroy their relationship. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 21 - 27, 2019 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s a shrewish moment that you wish could be balanced by more insights into the pilots’ quieter, more private moments. Our original film review of 'The Right Stuff' holds clues for John Glenn's path to senator 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Alberto slammed the door in his son’s face; his shrewish girlfriend called the police. Patrick Modiano, True Detective 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z To be demanding in a business setting is to be unfeminine, unseemly, shrewish or worse. The best way to eliminate the gender pay gap? Ban salary negotiations. 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Looking into Carpets, she found the shrewish wife of an old farmer raging and nagging at everybody, because she could not satisfy herself with what was being offered to her. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z A shrewish voice rose in the darkness before him, and other voices, angry, clamant, protesting, struck in. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z His remarks were condemned as shrewish and unpatriotic. Before the London Games, the Grumbling About Money 2012-03-27T20:01:35Z This may be a shrewish wife being wheeled in the tumbril to the waterside, there to undergo for the better ruling of her tongue, a punishment the authority for which was custom older than law. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Fortunately, the coarse rating which she had prepared, and from which neither policy nor mercy could have persuaded her to refrain, died on her shrewish lips at the word "brother." Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The beach, I saw, had been badly gullied by the late storm, but the sea, like some shrewish housewife, after exhausting its rage, had set about putting things to rights again. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z She is described as being without beauty and portion, and, worse still, she was of a shrewish temper. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z You tease me and tease me until I cannot bear it, and indeed I do not mean to be shrewish! The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z She looked challengingly at Newt and her eyes told him that, if she was silent under the shrewish heckling of the woman, she was quite ready to give him battle. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z He had never seen her in this shrewish mood before. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z In confirmation of this statement a shrewish squeal from Lady Jane proceeded from the interior. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z I must say that I really enjoyed making myself shrewish, sparkling, and audacious. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Nought that I know of, save it be her shrewish temper. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z She saw the old imbecile in the chimney corner and the shrewish step-mother, and the badgering step-sister, and even in the father who had brought her here, she knew that she had no effective ally. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The air is keen and shrewish, and as to the sea, I am satisfied with a bath of less dimensions. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z "My goodness!" exclaimed Mrs. Milligan, a thin woman with a shrewish countenance now much streaked with dust. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z Achilles in his wrath could rage, But scarce would stoop the wordy war to wage With poisoned epithet and shrewish flout Like scorpion-tongued Thersites. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z Only to think of his turning out a deceiver!—to leave me and go and pay court to a woman of forty, with a yellow skin, scraggy neck, and a temper of the most shrewish! A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z Yet with all this energy she is not shrewish, but a calm, grave woman, in much request in sick rooms or wherever there is trouble. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z This picture was painted at the age of twenty-eight: he was then suffering from that bitter domestic curse, a shrewish, avaricious wife, who finally broke his heart. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Still with "great cost, loss of time, confusion, and sorrow," he persevered, the wife growing more shrewish, the children more pinched and haggard. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Reference has already been made to his acceptance of the comic convention of the shrewish wife, and certainly both the Host and the Merchant have but few illusions left concerning wives. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z She brushed his arm aside, only to discover that the overthrown woman had regained her feet, and now stood watching her partner in shrewish fury as, grinning foolishly, he scrambled up. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z There was not one present who would not have ridiculed the idea of a comparison between her classic beauty and Mrs. Wyllys' shrewish physiognomy. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z The firing ceased as suddenly as it had begun, her words sounding shrewish in the silence and uttered in the face of Phil and Helen as they entered together. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Food was becoming scarce in the little household, his wife worn and shrewish, the children thin and sickly. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z It was quite dreadful to me to speak to him, and yet he took it as though I were out of temper, and merely shrewish.” A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z The viceroy was under her thumb, and the mistress governed him with all the jealous watchfulness of a shrewish wife. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z It is the case that he has such a promise," replied Madame de Masseran, in the same shrewish tone, "but not that he is justified by it, your highness. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z "Look here, you shrewish, homely little brute, I've nothing to do with you!" he blurted. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z She had a white star betwixt her eyes, and a most shrewish temper withal. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z We have taken a great step upwards into a shrewish region. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z I’d like to know who could stay everlastingly here, in these paltry apartments, with that shrewish landlady constantly popping out and in, as if to see whether I’d carried off the contents of our trunks. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z This almost emboldens us to believe the old story of the lion tamer and his shrewish wife. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z "I never thought you 'd marry, Mr. Dempsey," said Mrs. Fum, with a languishing look, that contrasted strangely with the habitually shrewish expression of the "Pauther's" face. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Don Alonso and his wife Do�a Francisca--a simple-minded but heroic old sea-captain, and a sharp-minded, shrewish lady, with a tongue of her own, fairly stand out on the canvas. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Cat.—A cross old woman was called "a cat"; or to a shrewish, the epithet was applied tauntingly. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Really one might think that love, and its caprices, and its tantrums—you see I'm in my shrewish mood—makes up the whole of life. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Never did lodger retreat from a shrewish landlady quicker than did Trevannion and his party from the trunk of the silk-cotton-tree. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Two or three days after the wedding, Radonic brought his girlish bride to live with his mother, the veriest old shrewish skinflint that could be imagined. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The baronet was a pale-faced, hunchback, lame creature, with a shrewish expression and a pair of brilliant grey eyes. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z He accused her in return of a shrewish temper. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Perhaps a little shrewish; a little like, not a mild exhorting elder sister, but an irritated aunt. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Dame Penury with her pinching ways and shrewish tongue was going to be their constant lodger. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Katherina is a woman who learns, if the hard way, the value of self-control and of seeing the world through others’ eyes — that is, once she drops the shrewish veneer that has become her defense. | New Jersey: ?Taming of the Shrew? Vaults Off the Page in New Jersey 2010-06-12T01:49:00Z Be not over-sanguine," said Cortes, affecting a laugh: "for, by my conscience, if you tell her not every thing to her liking, my mother hath somewhat of a shrewish way of admonishing you. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico The nose would have been a despised model for a Grecian; the mouth not dollishly small, yet small, firm-set, the firmness being saved from shrewish suggestion by an upward ending of the lips. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life But over all this came the shrill shrewish tones of a woman. Last Words "I don't think I ever saw a tear in your frocks," says Sir James, simply, "and if your tongue was shrewish I never found it out." Faith and Unfaith His wife, a shrewish little woman with a snappy manner, bridled up indignantly. John Marsh's Millions She made use of violent gestures; her tones were acidulated into the essence of all that was dogmatic and shrewish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 She makes the pine a butt for her insult and ridicule and a target against which she lashes the hail and drives her shrewish snow. Seeds of Pine "But we must have some, we can't go to bed without coal," snapped the girl, an undersized, shrewish little creature. Adventures of Bindle The chin stood there by itself, though shapely, and at the point was prettily depressed by a little dimple, just needed to save the lower part of the face from a shrewish look. The Spiritualists and the Detectives True, the American—— By the way, what did Millicent mean by her shrewish cry that Spencer was paying for Helen’s holiday? The Silent Barrier “Y’ are the shrewishest old dolt in Tunstall Forest,” returned Hatch, visibly ruffled by these threats. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) Bill had encountered no such golden opportunity; but was still a prisoner in the tent of the black sheik, surrounded by his shrewish tormentors. The Boy Slaves Even the forewoman, who was thin-lipped and shrewish, seemed a little afraid of her. The Beggar Man Jealous accusation, sharp recrimination, manly expostulation, shrewish aggravation; angry threat, summary dismissal. The Naples Riviera What fault was it of his that she had a shrewish mother who was bent upon ruining her life? Shadow Mountain The day they were to be married, however, he did not come to the church, but ran off to Van Diemen's Land, and she lived and died a vinegary, shrewish old maid. Tales from Dickens And a shrewish voice called back to him in a tone of feminine spleen. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country But she did not get on well with the earl, whose correspondence shows she was a little shrewish, though in most quarrels she managed to come off ahead, having by that time acquired experience. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The heroic mother, the shrewish dame and the funny old woman are equally little to my liking. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays She was a shrewish woman, full of gossip and backbiting, and she let no opportunity pass; so that even old Charley cherished a certain resentment, though he disguised it as solicitude for the Huffs. Shadow Mountain Only she was weak, hopelessly weak, and so all these things drove her to a shrewish discontent and peevishness. The Twins of Suffering Creek The shrewish frau had things largely her own way, was able to read a lecture like the wrath of God. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck She stepped forward again, her shrewish chin out-thrust, but Walter Pennold raised his face, and at sight of it she stopped as if turned to stone. The Crevice Look at her—isn't it awfully good—just like a shrewish woman. The Rainbow As I have remarked, the thought of the shrewish and abandoned old woman, of her house and its evil companions, occurred to me, as my horse slowly ascended the rising ground towards the plain. Old New England Traits If I do not employ a bell-glass or keep an assiduous watch, rarely does the shrewish Dipteron fail to alight upon my patient and explore him with her proboscis. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles He thought of his own wife—shrewish, fat, coarse, always complaining. Eight Keys to Eden Even when the carriage came in sight he would not have been a bit surprised to have seen the crofter and his shrewish wife jump out of it. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young It seemed as though Gertie had dared with shrewish shrillness to intrude upon his beautiful hour. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life This picture was painted at the age of twenty-eight; he was then suffering from that bitter domestic curse, a shrewish, avaricious wife, who finally broke his heart.” Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture For this reason, he determined to accept Mr. Eastman's offer of board and lodging at his house, albeit his wife was shrewish and generally disagreeable. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Behind the wicket there sits a shrewish female with a cold eye towards your defects, and behind her there is a row of bells which jangle when water is wanted in the rooms. Chimney-Pot Papers I was shrewish and ill-tempered, and deserve a severe lesson in courtesy. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days She had a shrewish temper which she masked before others with an exaggerated calm and feigned weakness. The Comedienne Eleanore came to have a feeling of horror at the sight or thought of Philippina; she was dismayed too when, despite the darkness, she noticed the shrewish look of incorrigible wickedness in Philippina’s face. The Goose Man Bill had encountered no such golden opportunity, but was still a prisoner in the tent of the black sheik, surrounded by his shrewish tormentors. The Boy Slaves Nor could she raise her hand or use "a curst and shrewish tongue" to him without fear of public punishment in the stocks or pillory. Customs and Fashions in Old New England "You dear silly boy, so she will, both fat and complacent, but then I shall be thin and shrewish and shrivelled." There was a King in Egypt Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity? Plutarch's Morals His mother had once been a beauty, and was now a rather shrewish, sharp-tongued old lady, who had outlived most of the people and most of the things she had cared for in life. Good Old Anna A husband may divorce his wife for failing to bear him issue, for being ugly, thievish, shrewish or a witch, or for an intrigue with another man. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II He chivalrously took sides at once with the unhappy Alice; no matter how shrewish the absconding wife might be, only a brute of a husband would fling such a message at her head. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! All this denoted temper, but not the deep and lasting kind; rather the flash-in-the-pan sort, common enough among shrewish women, and only common in men of this type. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Old Plain Talk had a shrew for a wife, and that's made him shrewish; and Old Prudence, when a boy, broke down in an apple-stall, and that discouraged him for life. The Confidence-Man The woman has a shrewish temper; she is a very vixen, and will lead you the life of a dog if you marry her.” The Norsemen in the West The look of the hoyden Spring Is pinched and shrewish and cold; But all together they sing Of a world that can never be old: Of a world still young—still young!— Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses Repaying the trust and confidence of your master with unkind persecution and a shrewish tongue, you have finished the measure of your misdeeds by what might have proved a most brutal murder. Adrift in the Ice-Fields Yes, she knew Mrs. Farley's, a shrewish Irishwoman, who kept a cheap theatrical boarding house in Forty ——th Street. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life A tall, gaunt young woman, addicted to pattens; slender and shrewish, of a sharp and acid visage. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The superior stature of Miss Mowbray to Lady Penelope, made it necessary that the former should perform the part of Helena, and her ladyship rest contented with the shrewish character of Hermia. St. Ronan's Well He had heard of how the shrewish Torborg treated her suitors, and felt that wooing her would be like taking a wild wolf by the ears. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. For a year her heart had held out against him, and softened only when she saw that he was breaking under the self-imposed burden,—a shrewish second wife. Marion's Faith. For, in spite of her shrewish tongue, Mrs. Peaslee had tact enough to let her husband have the credit for her business acumen. The Calico Cat Forgive me, Cousin Reuben," she said, "for my cross looks and shrewish ways. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico Now, the workers were all a shrewish lot. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Her charity, like that of most young people of her age and experience, was not of the sort calculated to survive under difficulties, or to deal successfully with shrewish old women. Gypsy Breynton Miss Florence Ivor, the eagle in question, gave a shrewd and shrewish portrait of a wife gey ill to live with. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 14, 1917 If the man and the woman were left to fight it out alone, the latter, despite the "shrewish sanction" that she possesses in her tongue, must inevitably bow to the principle that might is right. Anthropology There I abode, seeing no one save a shrewish looking woman who paid no heed to my questions and ignored me utterly. Beatrix of Clare ANTHONY: Nothing, but that it eased her shrewish stomach beforehand, to think that her husband should be hanged afterward. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens Because one loves you, Helen Grey, Is that a reason you should pout, And like a March wind veer about, And frown, and say your shrewish say? Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems One morning a man, whose life was embittered by a froward, shrewish wife, left his house to seek the advice of Solomon. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung,— Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish tongue! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Looking back, she remembered but little beyond the days she had passed with Johann and his shrewish wife. Adrien Leroy The wolf now, coming from shrift clean absolved from his sins, went about to do as a certain shrewish wife once told her husband that she would do, when she came from shrift. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens She stood quite still, with her hands resting on it, her face assuming a mean and shrewish expression. The Judge And there her bargaining became sharp, thin and shrewish. Married Life The True Romance What heeds he then the boisterous shout Of angry winds that scowl without, Like shrewish wives at tavern door? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood At any rate, grandmother had a shrewish tongue and often berated him. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil As Ben Westerveld had prospered his shrewish wife had reaped her benefits. Half Portions She paused to take breath, and to look with shrewish triumph at the girl who leaned against the wall. Audrey "You can't make even the Shrew sound shrewish—in her tone, I mean." The Twenty-Fourth of June She was a small old woman, with a shrewish face, a waxen complexion, and a brown wig. The Marriage of William Ashe But as the years slipped by, with no promise of easier conditions, she became dissatisfied, shrewish, and ashamed of her lack of pretty things to wear. Partners of Chance Secretly, as though his paternal affection were a crime, he caressed Julia, and his wife was not long in discovering that the father cared more for a loving daughter than for a shrewish wife. The End of the World A Love Story But the moment it was out, it acquired somehow the wrong sound, jangling and a little shrewish and somewhat common, and she rather wished she hadn't said it. V. V.'s Eyes To this second inn Wogan drove, and was welcomed by a shrewish woman whose sour face was warmed for once in a way into something like enthusiasm. Clementina The action is shrewish, benighted, medi�val, nay, barbarous; and this box was a very hard one indeed, extraordinarily hard for so little a hand and so fasting a girl. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight She was charged with having a sharp tongue, a sarcastic wit, and a shrewish temper, over which perilous traits she had no control. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I An Adela would certainly have berated him in her shrewish, thin tones. The Roll-Call The parlor door opened with violence; a thick-set man with a bald head and a red face, followed by a shrewish, thin woman with pinched lips, appeared on the threshold. The Purple Heights Her voice was higher pitched, it seemed, than ours—with a more shrewish tang to the speeding shell. France at War On the Frontier of Civilization As his eyes, in the patient mournfulness of their reproachful appeal, answer again in memory the shrewish violence of my accusation on the night of the ball—the last embers of my jealousy die. Nancy She was a shrewd and shrewish woman, impatient of some of the Puritan social standards and of the laws of everyday life. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) The weeping old woman told a halting story of a dissipated son, a shrewish daughter-in-law, and a state of servitude on her own part,—a story pitifully sordid in its details. What eight million women want Before the other could reply, 'What is this?' cried a shrewish voice from the interior of the carriage. The Castle Inn And yet I reflect that I should doubtless be a better man, even with a shrewish wife and a handful of heavy, unattractive children. The Silent Isle Warfare with market-men, shrewish watchfulness over servants, economy scarcely removed from meanness at the table, all were clearly indicated in her flushed and hard-featured face. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 The same is true of the perpetual jokes in comic papers about shrewish wives and henpecked husbands. All Things Considered Pa Werner—sullen, lazy, brooding, tyrannical—she soothed and mollified for the children's sake, or shouted down with a shrewish outburst, as the occasion required. Cheerful—By Request His face was not a particularly pleasant one, the eyes close set, hard, and cruel, the jaw thin and sharp, the mouth thin-lipped and shrewish. Action Front This Miggs was a tall young lady, very much addicted to pattens in private life; slender and shrewish, of a rather uncomfortable figure, and though not absolutely ill-looking, of a sharp and acid visage. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty “Y’ are the shrewishest old dolt in Tunstall Forest,” returned Hatch, visibly ruffled by these threats. The Black Arrow And to the wonder of all present, the reformed shrewish lady spoke as eloquently in praise of the wifelike duty of obedience, as she had practiced it implicitly in a ready submission to Petruchio's will. Tales from Shakespeare Do not suppose, however, that Mrs. Poyser was elderly or shrewish in her appearance; she was a good-looking woman, not more than eight-and-thirty, of fair complexion and sandy hair, well-shapen, light-footed. Adam Bede As Ben Westerveld had prospered, his shrewish wife had reaped her benefits. One Basket "I might have known you'd go and do something of the sort when I let you go to that party," said Marilla, sharp and shrewish in her very relief. Anne of Green Gables Her voice had the shrewish tone it sometimes got. Of Human Bondage Perhaps we have here the forerunner of the shrewish wife in modern vaudeville, who administers to her shrinking consort a rapid-fire tongue-lashing. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Behind them the sound of firing in the forward trenches swelled to an uproar augmented by the shrewish chattering of machine-guns. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf The shrewish contractions in the face, which had been very evident to Tully a few minutes before, had all disappeared, and the sharp slight lines of it seemed to George the height of delicacy. Sir George Tressady — Volume I Well, Warman," Miss Granger replied, in rather a shrewish tone, "I am out of spirits. The Lovels of Arden "I have been wondering whether you would both like to go sleighing with me some afternoon?" she ventured, with the humility so prone to assail humankind in a frank and shrewish presence. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life She had never been hounded from pillar to post by shrewish matrons who had no words too bitter for their unprofitable charge. Birds of Prey Now and then, when it became blurred and wavering, the voice was abruptly hard and decisive, once even piercing and almost shrewish. The Woman with the Fan What displeases me in this dramatic art, is the mechanical abstraction of the characters, and the scolding, shrewish tone of the interlocutors. Amiel's Journal The mouth had a trick of remaining slightly open, showing a line of small pearly teeth; the chin was a little sharp and shrewish. The History of David Grieve The wife grew desperate, and became more shrewish every day. Jean-Christophe Journey's End But over all this came the shrill, shrewish tones of a woman. Men, Women, and Boats But the day really turned out well enough; it was showery, but not shrewish, and it smiled pleasantly at sunset, as if content with the opening ceremonies of the Great Peace Jubilee. Suburban Sketches At the sound of her shrewish 'yang-yang' down came the old man from the bank, and so one dog fetched out the lot. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies He would not drive the mother-bear and her cubs away, and he would not fight with her, no matter how shrewish or unpleasant she was. The Grizzly King In the play of Noah, for instance, Noah's shrewish wife makes fun for the audience by wrangling with her husband. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World "Good woman," said the magistrate to this shrewish supplicant—"tell us what it is you want, and do not interrupt the court." The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 The winter that ensued after Jenny's departure was the true sister of the bitter and shrewish spring of the same year. Suburban Sketches Never before had Lucia showed so shrewish and venomous a temper; he had not thought her capable of it. Queen Lucia As to the works of the first class, the Reminiscences are defaced by the shrewish spirit shown in the accounts of Wordsworth and other friends; nor can we depend upon them as records of fact. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc Yet it is hard for a romantic youth to realize that the smiling maiden before him, with a cheek of peach-bloom and eyes full of mirth and tenderness, can become as shrewish as Xantippe herself. From Jest to Earnest A slim dark woman, with part of her back and one black shoulder bared, and with a thin gold ring in her nose, suddenly began to talk in a high-pitched, shrewish tone. Lord Jim "There's Matilda coughing again," says a thin, shrewish woman, with a kind of triumphant scowl at her better half; "but you would have her wear that thin shawl!" The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3 The retort that came back was shrewish, but the next instant Mathilda's voice became as honey. The Auction Block The old man berated her with shrewish fury, while McNamara stood silent. The Spoilers The Countess looked smaller, thinner, older, perhaps a trifle more shrewish, but she had evidently suffered much, and was very glad to have recovered her husband and her home. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Certainly there were no soft curves in her resolute mouth, and her eyes were as keen as Leif's; yet it was neither a cruel face nor a shrewish one. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days Never again, would he hear his mother's shrewish voice or feel her heavy, greasy hand about his ears. The Fortunate Youth "The lake is shrewish at this season," the boatman continued. The Valley of Decision Mrs Kirk, a stout, pale, sharp-nosed woman, sly, honied, with something shrewish and cat-like beneath, asked the girls into her toocosy, too tidy kitchen. Women in Love "Now then, what do you want now?" she said hurriedly, her bitter tone beginning on the ordinary pitch, but rising rapidly to a shrewish scream. The Malady of the Century "What a spiteful little toad!" thought Malcolm, who cared nothing for fluffy hair and curling eyelashes if a shrewish tongue accompanied them. Herb of Grace It had not taken her long to discover, when as a child she had come to live with her godmother, the warm heart that concealed itself beneath the old lady's somewhat shrewish exterior. The Lamp of Fate Show her the curse of a shrewish temper, and the blessing of cheerfulness. Thelma She, an old maid, as inwardly shrewish as outwardly pious, utilizes the Abbe Birotteau and another clergyman, who both lodge with her, to attract the good society folk of Tours to her evening receptions. Balzac He dwells at my next neighbour's, who is often driven well-nigh out of her mind—for she is a dame with a shrewish tongue and sharp temper—by his inattention. The Dragon and the Raven The hero runs away from his shrewish wife and under false presences is married to a king's daughter. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 No; the ballet-girl is real enough and handsome enough, too, for those who like shrewish beauty. The Gadfly She is growing old, Tsamanni—old and lean and shrewish, and no fit mate for a Member of the Prophet's House. The Sea-Hawk The Noah of the Deluge plays is an English master joiner with a shrewish wife, and three sons who are his apprentices. Songs of the Ridings And for the most part, the Eves were either portly and bustling or withered and shrewish housewives, of age and experience to defy the serpent. To Have and to Hold When he awoke he lay there lolling and blinking, following the blue rovings of the titmice and listening to the foolish squabbles of the sparrows and the shrewish scoldings of the wrens. Greyfriars Bobby The dove had suddenly changed to a hawk; the child-girl into an antique virago; the spirit hitherto dimly outlined in her face, of some shrewish Garcia ancestress, came to the fore. The Story of a Mine You are sympathetic, tender- hearted, and have a fine sense of justice; but I can see that tongue of yours, if not carefully watched, wearing decidedly shrewish. They and I And here the old harridan railed at me until the child whimpered for fear and even I blenched before the woman's fierce aspect and shrewish tongue. Black Bartlemy's Treasure Then, hearing the clock strike, tear themselves from her with a sigh, and return home—some of them—to stupid shrewish wives. Tommy and Co. It had also to be borne in mind that he had a shrewish wife, and that her whole family had come to live with him. Novel Notes Mary Stuart had her chance, and missed it; perhaps, after all, her shrewish female gaoler made the passionless life impossible. Angling Sketches They and their simple pleasures are the butts of a cheap and shrewish set of critics, who cannot endure in others a taste which is absent in themselves. The Library She shocked and stunned him by her virulently shrewish tone, and her still more unexpected force of invective. Scaramouche Birotteau found this shrewish trader among sacks of filberts, nuts, and chestnuts. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau I do think a prairie-dog is the most impudent creature alive and the most shrewish. Her Prairie Knight When I fought with you I ruined my temper, grew shrewish, coarse, timid, mistrustful.... The Wife, and other stories Does she look like a hard, shrewish lady?” A Lady of Quality My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours: Say that I linger'd with you at your shop To see the making of her carcanet, And that to-morrow you will bring it home. The Comedy of Errors The door opens and his landlady—a shrewish, sharp faced woman of 40—appears. A Parody Outline of History And to the wonder of all present, the reformed shrewish lady spoke as eloquently in praise of the wifelike duty of obedience as she had practised it implicitly in a ready submission to Petruchio's will. Tales from Shakespeare So this odd match was quickly agreed on and Baptista went to apprise his shrewish daughter of her lover's addresses, and sent her in to Petruchio to listen to his suit. Tales from Shakespeare She ruled them all with her temper and her shrewish will. A Lady of Quality Never sure was there such a mad marriage; but Petruchio did but put this wildness on the better to succeed in the plot he had formed to tame his shrewish wife. Tales from Shakespeare |
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