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And all with their eyes and ears and mouths agape with amazement and inquiry. "In the fiend's name, what's the matter? What the d l's broke loose? Is the house on fire again?" vociferated the commodore, seeing that no one else spoke; "what's all this about, Nace Grimshaw?" "Ask your pretty niece, sir!" said the professor, sternly, turning away. "Oh, it's you, is it, you little termagant you?
I wish I had never listened to Blanche's tempting. I wish I had left the little termagant in peace. The game isn't worth the candle." He found Mrs. Susan Sharpe sitting where he had left her, with her imperturbable face still turned to the fire, her bonnet and shawl still on.
Others have written, and not written badly, with the stolid professional regularity of the clerk at his desk; you, like the Scholar Gipsy, might have said that 'it needs heaven-sent moments for this skill. There are, it will not surprise you, some honourable women and a few men who call you a cynic; who speak of 'the withered world of Thackerayan satire; who think your eyes were ever turned to the sordid aspects of life to the mother-in-law who threatens to 'take away her silver bread-basket; to the intriguer, the sneak, the termagant; to the Beckys, and Barnes Newcomes, and Mrs.
His features became sharpened by misery, for a termagant wife is the whetstone on which all the calamities of a hen-pecked husband are painted by the devil. He no longer strutted as he was wont to do; he no longer carried a cudgel as if he wished to wage a universal battle with mankind. He was now a married man.
To which Voltaire replies, as he well may, with eloquent gratitude; with Verses to the divine Emilie, with Gifts to her, verses and gifts the prettiest in the world; and industriously celebrates the divine Emilie to herself and all third parties. "An ardent, aerial, gracefully predominant, and in the end somewhat termagant female figure, this divine Emilie.
Pani pressed it cordially, but Jeanne did not touch it. "The little termagant!" he said to himself. "She has not forgiven me. But girls forget. And in a year or two she will be longing for finery. Silver fox, forsooth! That would be a costly gift. Where does the child get her ideas? Not from her neighborhood nor the Indian women she consorts with. Nor even Madame Ganeau," with an abrupt laugh.
The effect of his indifference began to extend itself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting the condition of a boy, to enter the state of manhood, attempted to assist the termagant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their victim, and adding his empty boasts to the taunts of the woman.
The house and its inmates had altogether a bad name. Tom’s wife was a tall termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm. Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face sometimes showed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words. No one ventured, however, to interfere between them.
Cyrus was bawling at the top of his voice from a tree ten feet distant: "Are you all right, Dol? Don't be scared. Hold on like grim death, and we can laugh at the old termagant now." "I'm I'm all right," sang out Dol, though his voice shook, as did every twig of his hemlock, which the moose was assaulting again. "But he's frantic to get at me." "Never mind. He can't do it, you know.
The villain had again been attempting to play off the same hellish scheme with a beautiful young rustic which had succeeded in the case of my ill-fated Agnes. But the young woman in this instance had a high, and, in fact, termagant spirit. Rustic as she was, she had been warned of the character of the man; everybody, in fact, was familiar with the recent tragedy.
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