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• “But because somebody emotionally batters you and degrades you -- perhaps Mary was afraid that her husband was going to find out about the Ponzi scheme and she was going to -- he was going to be so mad, but that would give all the men the right to kill their wives simply because their wives might henpeck them or get angry because they didn ` t remember their birthdays or something.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2007

• “Nouakchott, henpeck restrained entrusts Mississippians”

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• “She is resolute and impetuous, clever and domineering; she is not one of those model women who want a man to look up to, and to protect them — her beau-ideal (though she may not think it herself) is a man she can henpeck.”

  No Name

• “When it became hubby's duty to cook the meals and carry half of them to bed for his better half every morning before breakfast he began to taste silly and smell sort of henpeck like.”

  Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

• “The husband of the one dollar variety was more or less of a henpeck because he could not multiply his income by five and produce a concrete result.”

  Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

• “Mrs. Stanton is of intellectual stock, impressive in manner and disposed to henpeck the convention which of course calls out resistance and much cackling ....”

  The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01

• “Was it possible that she might not be going to henpeck him after all?”

  The Way of All Flesh

• “How you do henpeck me, Lolly!" he said, rather sheepishly.”

  Aurora Floyd. A Novel

• “She kept me from speaking my mind all her life, and do you think she shall henpeck me now she is dead too?”

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