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Charles Lamb was certainly in error? when he described Vittoria's attitude as one of 'innocence-resembling boldness. In the trial scene, no less than in the scenes of altercation with Brachiano and Flamineo, Webster clearly intended her to pass for a magnificent vixen, a beautiful and queenly termagant.
He was wanted to point out the places where the hostile tracks had been seen, and his termagant sister openly scouted at the idea, as unworthy of his manhood. The reluctant Abiram was compelled to yield, and Ishmael made a new disposition for the defence of the place; which was admitted, by every one, to be all-important to their security and comfort. He offered the post of commandant to Dr.
'Deil be in me but I'll put this het gad down her throat! cried he, in an ecstasy of wrath, snatching a bar from the forge; and he might have executed his threat, had he not been withheld by a part of the mob; while the rest endeavoured to force the termagant out of his presence. Waverley meditated a retreat in the confusion, but his horse was nowhere to be seen.
"What!" exclaimed the aunts, in a simultaneous burst of amazement. "All for one fish?" "Ay, it was a big one, you see, and Dick Jones, one of the men of the Termagant, told me it was sold for that. It's a profitable fishing, when one doesn't lose one's ship. What do you say to go with me and Ailie on our next trip, sisters? You might use up all your silk and worsted thread and crooked pins."
"Jeanie Deans!" said the termagant, in accents affecting the utmost astonishment; then, taking two strides nearer to her, she peered into her face with a stare of curiosity, equally scornful and malignant "I say Jeanie Deans indeed Jeanie Deevil, they had better hae ca'ed ye!
He is suffering, as it is cursed in his son; for 'the father of a fool hath no joy. He hates this son of his, and his son despises him. His wife is a shrew, a termagant, who embitters every hour of his existence. Thus he drags out his life, unloving and unloved, a thing to evoke pity." "Pity?" cried Sir Richard in a voice of thunder. "Pity? Ha!
More inane Congress never met in this world, nor will meet. Settlement proved so difficult; all the more, as neither of the quarrelling parties wished it. Kaiser and Termagant, fallen as if exhausted, had not the least disposition to agree; lay diplomatically gnashing their teeth at one another, ready to fight again should strength return.
It is true that Senor Joaquin Pedrillo afterward located a grant near the base of the mountain; but as Senora Pedrillo was known to be a termagant half- breed, the senor was not supposed to be over-fastidious. Such is the legend of Monte del Diablo. As I said before, it may seem to lack essential corroboration.
Still, however, I found myself not a whit the better off for my frequent change of lodgings; and I began to discover that in literature, as in trade, the old proverb holds good, "a rolling stone gathers no moss." The tranquil beauty of the country played the very vengeance with me. I could not mount my fancy into the termagant vein.
When I am by myself I can curse and swear, play Termagant and rehearse an extravaganza out-Heroding all the Herods that ever Heroded. But before others no. I believe my great-grandfather, before he qualified for his baronetcy, was a gentleman. "But on these occasions," said I, "you will avoid a sequestered and meditative self." Her laugh got choked by a sob. "Do you remember that?
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