10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIRAGINOUS»
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viraginous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
viraginous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
virago. (vah-RAH-go) noun 1. a noisy, scolding, ill-tempered woman; termagant.
2. a large, strong, courageous woman. Company at dinner, Trench (Ford A's
brother), Hardman & his daughter, and two more viraginous old spinsters & Blues
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Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
What the women perceive as their “best” will turn out to be their “worst,” and as a
consequence the torturers will themselves be tortured. . 137: viraginous: The
adjective of “virago,” a loud overbearing woman, is listed in Webster's Third. .137:
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The Mudrooroo/Müller Project: A Theatrical Casebook
He has become a pseudo victim much like Antoine, who also ends up with a
woman, who also takes him off to bed and fucks him while the Female Angel of
Despair, a viraginous woman gloats over the despair of the marginalised pseudo
...
Gerhard Fischer, Paul Behrendt, Brian Syron, 1993
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Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
Mary Ambree was not the only viraginous woman on the minds of Jacobean men
and women. In the first decades of the seventeenth century the English at all
levels formulated social and ethical controversies in terms of the mannish woman
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Lectures on Shakspeare: In Two Volumes
Loud, voluble, violent, and viraginous, with a tongue that seems sharper than a
sword, and an eloquence that seems enough to raise a blister, she has, however,
too much honour and good sense to use them without good cause, and at the ...
Henry Norman Hudson, 1848
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Poems on Affairs of State ...: From the time of Oliver ...
Nor would come down, but with an Handkercher, Which Pocket foul did to her
neck pteser : She shed no Tears, for she was too Viraginous, But only snuffing
her Trunk Cartilaginous, From Scaling Ladder she began a Story, Worthy to be
had in ...
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The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of ...
... “Yid craftiness” (see Chapter 14). Judith's invocation thus accentuates the
juxtaposition of the exuberant carnality of Babel's viraginous “jewish” females,
with flowing dark hair and little mustaches, and their self-effacing husbands (II:
218–21).
The procession passes through the whole hamlet, with a view of exposing or
shaming the viraginous lady, and of thus preventing further outrages on the
person of her partner ' To this list of words, some general observations are added
by way ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1815
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Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present
Little did she realize the struggles that would ensue — not with her father, a writer
and school principal, who secretly sided with his daughter, but with her strong-
willed, traditionalist, viraginous mother, who resorted to all types of punishments,
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Alba Amoia, Bettina Knapp, 2006
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Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in ...
... 8.23.3; 8.25.4; 8.30.2. horoscopes numerous times, but we never learn any
details about. v1Mathesis 7.25.4. -"1But more typical is 7.25.5, where sterile
viraginous females are born under exactly the same astrological configuration as
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David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin, 1990
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIRAGINOUS»
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viraginous is used in the context of the following news items.
American men fight back – in 'Manglish'
The fashion industry has been quick to commercialise the viraginous new lexicon. As accessories, college campuses are blazing the metrosexual trail for the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 12»
Pearl Thevanayagam's cheap journalism
Clearly she wants to start running her viraginous marathon from where Dirty Sethu, Rowdy Rajan, Emdon Seevaratnam, Chungan, Pukkaiyan and many other ... «Sri Lanka Guardian, Nov 10»
The Hillary Lesson
A yellow, viraginous caricature of Hillary Clinton leered out from a black background. Big block letters proclaimed, “The wicked witch of the East is alive and ... «New York Times, May 08»
