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Meanings of shrew in английском
португальский
musaranho каталонский
mussaranya Synonyms
Examples for "hag"
Examples for "hag"
1
When? he asked, dully remembering the drunken hag he had seen-agesago.
2
You should arrange for the hag to join the Freeing this year.
3
To this moment, he hadn't yet withdrawn any of the hag's teeth.
4
The hag was standing in the kitchen door now, still grinning evilly.
5
The hag laid down the coins and moved laboriously to the, table.
1
Every one was still chatting of the episode of the young virago.
2
Lavinia despite her terror of the beautiful virago never lost her self-control.
3
But instantly the woman was transformed into a cursing and swearing virago.
4
Yet the old virago evidently spoke from a broad background of experience.
5
A moment later she burst like a beautiful virago into the courtyard.
1
All semblance of harshness, and harridan-like spike-tonguedness vanished when she said adieu.
2
Somehow he must get this harridan out of the way at once!
3
She had never seen anything really useful around that white-haired harridan.
4
He cursed her for a noisy harridan; then he said fretfully:
5
It was like a goad to the painted, shiny-eyed harridan on the sofa.
Usage of shrew in английском
1
Let them take that shrew of a wife, too! Baron Poll bellowed.
2
A sharp nose has been considered the visible mark of a shrew.
3
I've got some more crickets for the Etruscan shrew, the Beefeater called.
4
You remember I did my master's thesis on rock shrew cell differentiation?
5
His wife, Kate, is called a shrew on account of her ill-temper.
6
Dangerous, unscrupulous and cruel, I thought; a man-woman, a shrew, a termagant!
7
She has thrown me into a perfect sweat, the cursed old shrew!
8
Each shrew-like animal along our forward walk is now followed by her daughter.
9
She is the fiercest shrew in England, as she is the greatest beauty.
10
Is a noseless shrew going to tell us what to think?
11
Tree shrew PDAC possesses the main histological and molecular features of human PDAC.
12
Two hours without a meal and a shrew is in a bad way.
13
It's much easier to focus on an elephant rather than a pygmy shrew.
14
A shrew mouse, Sorex tenuis; supposed to be peculiar to Timor.
15
The hideous glance which the old shrew had given me pursued me everywhere.
16
Inside of ten minutes, I'd transformed the woman from suspicious shrew to co-conspirator.
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Shrew through the time
Shrew across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common