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You can find out what you need to know by keeping track of my ignorance Elisha Boone's domestic circle was a termagancy--as Kate often told his guests--tempered by wit and good-humor.— The Iron Game A Tale of the War
It had been a revelation to her, and she was chastened of all the termagancy visible and invisible in her.— You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 3.
I could give many more instances of her termagancy, and his philosophy, if such a proceeding might not look as if I were glad of an opportunity to expose the fair sex; but, to show that I have no such design, I declare solemnly, that I had much worse stories to tell of her behaviour to her husband, which I rather passed over, on account of the great esteem which I bear the ladies, especially those in the honourable station of matrimony Footnote 8: Ramble Footnote 9: Not vomiting Footnote 10: Thrusting out the lip Footnote 11: This is to be understood not in the sense of wort, when brewers put yeast or harm in it; but its true meaning is, deceived or cheated Footnote 12: Hit your fancy Footnote 13: Sullen fits.— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
27) termagancy - (noun) the state of being turbulent or tumultuous— UUpdates - All updates
I could give many more instances of her termagancy, and his philosophy, if such a proceeding might not look as if I were glad of an opportunity to expose the fair sex; but, to show that I have no such design, I declare solemnly, that I had much worse stories to tell of her behaviour to her husband, which I rather passed over, on account of the great esteem which I bear the ladies, especially those in the honourable station of matrimony.] [Footnote 8: Ramble.] [Footnote 9: Not vomiting.] [Footnote 10: Thrusting out the lip.] [Footnote 11: This is to be understood not in the sense of wort, when brewers put yeast or harm in it; but its true meaning is, deceived or cheated.] [Footnote 12: Hit your fancy.] [Footnote 13: Sullen fits.— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
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