It met its persecutor with a shriek, almost exactly like that of an angry virago. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Randle Holme says that a sleeve thus tied in at the elbow was called a virago sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
As for "virago", it may be male in Shakespeare, but it was female all the way back to Plautus. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TERMAGANT.] Reference
"Well, did you get it?" one of them, apparently the "virago" herself, asked abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference
I pity him for the prospect he has with such a virago!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I am ashamed to have this hinted to me by this virago. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I gave them a character of that virago; and intimated. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
"Mind your own business, young man!" snapped the virago. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
It is the worst insult one virago can cast upon another in. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
"Git out of this and stop your interferin '!" shouted the virago. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
He declared that they originated with that abominable virago; Mrs. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference
The chairman of this virago was a charming man named David Jacobs. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Palmer: Mods And Rockers Festival: Lennon-Instigated Film Gets US Premiere! (40 Years Late!)] Reference
The inanimate and delicate beauty then changed into a stormy virago. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Expect a new barmy initiative from Harmon, the shrieking virago of the Left. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
She went around like a virago and scolded nearly every one in her department. From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
Lavinia despite her terror of the beautiful virago never lost her self-control. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
No doubt she was a virago, a woman who could not control her temper for a moment!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
This is a blue-ice-cold, megalomaniacal demon virago fit for a Stephen King novel. From Wordnik.com. [PECK, PECK... SQUAWK!] Reference
Remarried recently-a virago, a real vixen from a good family with her own children. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
The only Van Pelt he knew was Lucy, the pint-sized virago in the Peanuts comic strip. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Ever the deadeye, Freeman uses a lasso to tame the prairie virago Kate (Tracey Ullman). From Wordnik.com. [How The West Was Tamed] Reference
‘Twould vex a man’s heart, that this virago should have come honestly by her fancies. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
A middle-aged successful artist I know -- herself a bit of a virago -- thinks she's "evil.". From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Agonistes] Reference
The door opened and Zukowsky was almost bowled over by the dark-haired virago who bounced in. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
"What brings you here, then?" interrupted the virago; "the Halle mail is far enough off by this.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
"Well, then tell her not to meddle with me again," said the virago, shaking a stick at the child. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
My mother's mother was a virago all her life ... and when she hit eighty she became a mega-virago. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Thus armed, he boldly confronted the virago, and interposing a remora, which was able to check poor. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
You see I presume to involve myself, as if, in some sort, the interesting little virago belonged to me. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
She was a virago of the first order, very able with her fist, and still more formidable with her tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Now it descended on the ship like a fierce-scolding virago, then rushed on with wild, shrieking dissonance. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
A perceptible growth of hair lent a somewhat repulsive appearance to a face which at best had a great deal of the virago in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Curran was passing the quay at Cork where this virago held forth, when, stopping to listen to her, he was requested to "go on ou 'that.". From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
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