Significados de froward child em inglês

A froward child, and I trust that Goodman Holbrook will not spare the rod.

Why 't is no more than cheating a froward child into taking 's physic.

Perhaps love treats me as a mother deals with a froward child, because I asked too much of her.

Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.

Methinks he wakes out of his long sleep like a froward child, that wrangles and fights with all that comes near it.

For my part, I never saw a froward child mended by whipping; and I would not have the mother country become a stepmother.

The Infanta, with two million crowns in dowry, was promised, withheld, brought forward again like a puppet to please or irritate a froward child.

Thou hadst a foolish froward child to guide to his own weal, and didst all this for the best, I thank thee and bless thee.

"Speak on," said Hilda, calmly, as a nurse to a froward child.

"A froward child, I fear," remarked Captain John Hopkins when they had gone.