How To Use termagant In A Sentence
- The ministrations of Dr. Stickney had not been available, and the two mothers had survived because they had the constitutions of frontierswomen rather than because they had the benefit of the nursing of the termagant who was Jerry Tompkins's wife. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
- Take this redhead, for instance, this termagant, this copper-headed Amazon, this female dragon in angel's clothing. THE LONELY SEA
- I am particularly fond of the word "termagant," so if you're an AF reading this post, do feel free to use that word as a descriptor for me. In Defense of Bitterness
- Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses. Men Should Weep - review
- Do I feel bad that I was done in by a 13-year-old boy and didn't know that "termagant" means me at times ... a quarrelsome woman? NBC Treats Word Games Like the Olympic Games
- In her temper, too, there is a slight infusion of the termagant; and her satirical humor plays with such an unrespective levity over all subjects alike, that it required a profound knowledge of women to bring such a character within the pale of our sympathy. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
- Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword. Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3
- I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation.
- Dr. Henry Heginbotham, of Stockport, England, says in speaking of the brank preserved in that town: "There is no evidence of its having been actually used for many years; but there is testimony to the fact that within the last forty years the brank was brought to a termagant market-woman, who was effectually silenced by its threatened application. The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
- If she be passionate, want of manners makes her a termagant and a scold, which is much at one with Lunatic. The Education of Women
