Family legend recounts that Sister Garrison once quite literally broke up her husband's drinking party by smashing the offending bottles, and this is sometimes taken to mean that Abijah Garrison was driven to desert his family by his termagant of a wife. From LearnThat.org. [Henry Mayer]
A termagant wife, if such a law were to pass, would be a phoenix. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Olympias his mother, that royal termagant, was still berating his regent by every post. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
She seemed to be a sort of termagant, and she said nobody said that about her unless you told them. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
S-- I was intrigued by the process of losing the joyful part of himself and becoming this termagant. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America] Reference
Roxane's notion that he would add to his troubles by taking that termagant girl along was enough to make a man laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Sister, said he, with his teeth set, act on the termagant part you have so newly assumed — most wonderfully well does it become you. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
They even begged; it seemed that facing their termagant leader under the circumstances was almost as frightening as losing their masks. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
"Lord! what a termagant is your pretty cousin, Mr. Mallock!" said my companion when we were out of doors again. From Wordnik.com. [Oddsfish!] Reference
I'd never heard "termagant" before, I'll have to look it up. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense of Bitterness] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense of Bitterness] Reference
I just like to see that little termagant taken down. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
She inDEED demonstrated repeatedly she is a termagant. From Wordnik.com. [Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.] Reference
Acting like the uncompromising termagant that you are. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Camp: Rove Wants Obama To Get Nomination!] Reference
I have an admirable receipt to cure a termagant wife. —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Pomponia is a termagant, Quintus is a real country squire. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I'll just show the little termagant how much I can remember. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
And the woman was a termagant — at least so I've been told. From Wordnik.com. [A DAY'S LODGING] Reference
She is convincing as a fragile ingenue and a driven termagant. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Jones: Black Swan -- A Second Time] Reference
And believe me, I'm naught now save a big red-haired termagant. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"Ha!" shrieked the termagant, as she wrenched off her handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Is this change from termagant to Good Housekeeping mom of 1945 real?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
In fact they have suceeded in exposing her as the termagant that she is at core. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Sununu Leads Shaheen In NH Senate Race] Reference
I could have such a fellow whipped for overdoing termagant: it out-Herods Herod. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
What a-devil had I to do, to terrify the sweet creature by my termagant projects! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Mr Milksan, being of a timorous disposition, truckled to the insolence of a termagant. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses. From Wordnik.com. [Men Should Weep - review] Reference
But for this termagant, (as I often said,) I must surely have made a better hand of it. —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. From Wordnik.com. [On the nightstand (under the pillow, in the knapsack, etc.)] Reference
'Tis so absurd of you to want to marry the little red-haired termagant you used to play with. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Yon termagant looked so tempting, and had the art to preserve her countenance so naturally, while. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
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