10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERMAGANCY»
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termagancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Popular and Complete English Dictionary: Exhibiting the ...
TERMAGANCY. 1319. TERREL. stated or promises made, which, when assented
to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties. — v. i. To name
; to call; to denominate. Quarterly terms, the days which limit the fonr quarters ...
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hoars, but neither self
condemning ; And of their vain contest appear'd do endt" However, it does seem
extremely clear, from history, that the foible of termagancy, if not quite so old as
sin, ...
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More Theatres, 1898-1903
After the first act, in which she calls her suitor a 'thing' and a 'man-fish' and a 'sea-
monster,' the termagancy of Beatrix evaporates. True, in the second act, she calls
him a 'tailor of Salamanca,' but this is only under stress of that anger which the ...
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The humorous poetry of the English language: from Chaucer to ...
I could give many more instances of her termagancy and his philosophy, if each a
proceeding might not look aB 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 mnch
...
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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in ...
I could give many more instances of her termagancy, and his philosophy, if such
aproceeding might not look as if I were glad of an opportunity to expose the fair
sex ; but to shew that I have no such design, I declare, that I had much worse ...
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, 1766
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The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine United
How many wives have been disheartened, and deprived of all temporal
happiness by the cruelty and profiigacy of husbands; how many husbands by the
termagancy and infidelity of wives. How many brothers and sisters have yielded
to ...
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Leeing Davie. The widow. The love match. The lowland laird ...
Andrew Picken. duced upon her a different effect. The anxieties which drove my
father to despondency, and to his Bible, impelled my mother to the fury of a shrew
. He became resigned and shrinking: she took fits of termagancy that made him ...
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History of the burgh of Dumfries, with notices of Nithsdale, ...
A COLLEAGUE TO THE PARISH MINISTER APPOINTED — ACTINGS OF THE
SESSION AND PRESBYTERY TOWARDS OFFENDERS — PUNISHMENT FOR
SWEARING, BLASPHEMY, SLANDER, TERMAGANCY, SABBATH-BREAKING, ...
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The New Covent-Garden Register, being secret memoirs of some ...
A woman, by 'her profligate behaviour,may bring insamy on herself and her
husband: by her extravagance, she may attempt to ruin him; or by a Violent
termagancy of temper, she may never suffer him to r 153 > a _ to have a
simomenfs peace ...
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The life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran: late ...
if real, would they have dreamed of such a silly termagancy ? Does it not mark
their unfeeling coxcombry and apathy in the public interest, and how fit they are
to be the mothers of the Gracchi ? And yet women here are vain of their sway.
William Henry Curran, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 1855
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TERMAGANCY»
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Northport's Aldrin D'Silva heading to Washington for Scripps …
Aldrin won the bee by correctly spelling "termagancy," a noun meaning habitual bad temper. Nothing of that was evident when the D'Silva family gathered in ... «Fort Pierce Tribune, Mar 10»
