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But I should have remembered me that his name of Nevile would have procured him a taunt in the place of advancement." "Saw man ever so froward a temper?" cried Edward, not without reason. "Why, Warwick, thou art as shrewish to a jest as a woman to advice. Thy kinsman's fortunes shall be my care. Thou sayest thou hast enemies, I weet not who they be.
"I do think a prairie-dog is the most impudent creature alive and the most shrewish. I never pass but I am scolded by these little scoundrels till my ears burn. What do you think they say?" "They're probably inviting you to stop with them and be their queen, and are scolding because your heart is hard and you only laugh and ride on." "Queen of a prairie-dog town! Dear me! Why this plaintive mood?"
Once, indeed, he had thought it would be fun to help with the honey-making. So he stopped one of the workers when she was on her way home with a load of nectar. "Let me help you carry that home!" Buster said. Now, the workers were all a shrewish lot. They were terribly short-tempered especially if anybody interfered with their work, which they loved better than anything else in the world.
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. An expert stone-mason by trade, Pa Werner could be depended on only when he was not drinking, or when he was not on strike, or when he had not quarrelled with the foreman.
"I have not spoken about her before." "You said she would be fat and coarse at forty." Millicent Mervill caught his hands in hers. "You dear silly boy, so she will, both fat and complacent, but then I shall be thin and shrewish and shrivelled." Michael laughed. "You are a tease!" he said good-naturedly. "'The Rogue in Porcelain' used to be my name at school.
To the end of her days she never could recollect how the Queen was arrayed; she saw nothing but the expression in those falcon eyes, and the strangely sensitive mouth, which bewrayed the shrewish nose and chin, and the equally inconsistent firmness of the jaw.
his "John+Tash mark "Grenwich July 12, 1692. "John Tash hath given oath to his testimony abovesaid "Before me John Renels Comessener." And Mistress Staplies had other qualities, always potent in small communities to invite criticism and dislike. She was a shrewd and shrewish woman, impatient of some of the Puritan social standards and of the laws of everyday life.
For, in spite of her shrewish tongue, Mrs. Peaslee had tact enough to let her husband have the credit for her business acumen. "I ain't goin' to let on," she said to herself, "that he ain't just as good as the rest of 'em." She had her pride. As Mr.
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.
He preferred the new arrangement, if his wife and family were happy and contented, to a domestic system founded on his own principles, accompanied by a sullen or shrewish partner of his own life and rebellious offspring. What really vexed him, among comparatively lesser matters, was the extraordinary passion which in time his son exhibited for game-preserving.
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