virago

How To Use virago In A Sentence

• Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
• These women were what Florence King calls "viragoes" -- not in the accepted sense of the nag, but in the original sense of the woman who is strong in and of herself. American Thinker
• But the old man could not summon up the strength of mind to be quit of this succubine virago. She Stands Accused
• He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again.
• In between these waggons the women are placed for safety, for it is a noticeable fact that very large numbers of women have followed their husbands and fathers to the war, not to act as viragoes, not to play the wanton, not to unsex themselves, not to handle the rifle, but to nurse the wounded, to comfort the dying, and to lay out the dead. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
• Which then said: This is now a bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; and Adam gave her a name like as her lord, and said she should be called virago, which is as much as to say as made of a man, and is a name taken of a man. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
• There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
• Well, did you get it?" one of them, apparently the "virago" herself, asked abruptly. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
• Worst of all is the disastrous family his daughter is about to marry into, a graceless mob of halfwits headed by a foul-mouthed virago.
• He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago. A dollop from Trollope | clusterflock