The magic of money transformed this
termagant and terrible person into a docile and attentive nurse--so eager to follow my instructions exactly that she begged me to commit them to writing before I went away.
With that thought, however, came a mental picture of Naratu, the black
termagant, who ruled him with an iron hand.
The effect of his indifference began to extend itself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting the condition of a boy to enter the state of manhood, attempted to assist the
termagant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their victim, and adding his empty boasts to the taunts of the women.
Never suppose that she was a
termagant or a shrew for all this; she had the kindliest heart in the world, and acted towards me in particular in a truly maternal manner, occasionally putting some little morsel of choice food,into my hand, some outlandish kind of savage sweetmeat or pastry, like a doting mother petting a sickly urchin with tarts and sugar plums.
These several duties were soon performed, and, as darkness now began to conceal the objects on the surrounding prairie, the shrill-toned
termagant, whose voice since the halt had been diligently exercised among her idle and drowsy offspring, announced, in tones that might have been heard at a dangerous distance, that the evening meal waited only for the approach of those who were to consume it.
We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad
termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind.
"And the woman was a
termagant - at least so I've been told.
In all of them,
termagant, flirt, crank, washerwoman, blue-stocking, outcast and even in the ordinary fool of the ordinary commerce there is something left, if only a spark.
"I must and will go," Amelia cried with the greatest spirit; and George, applauding her resolution, patted her under the chin, and asked all the persons present if they ever saw such a
termagant of a wife, and agreed that the lady should bear him company.
In Washington Irving's story Rip Van Winkle, the protagonist goes hunting to escape the sharp tongue of his
termagant wife, and falls asleep in the woods for twenty years.
An excellent evening, no sign of the
termagant. Good food, ambiance, service and management.
He was a leading seaman gunner on destroyer HMS
Termagant when U-453 was spotted off the coast of Calabria, southern Italy, on May 21, 1944.