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Meanings of virago in английском
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To this moment, he hadn't yet withdrawn any of the hag's teeth.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
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.
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 virago in английском
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.
6
My virago can't stay long in the same place with her temper.
7
I stood upon the defensive between the virago and my sister's chair.
8
The woman who couldn't get on with you must be a virago.
9
I pity him for the prospect he has with such a virago!
10
Gregory agreed and talked at enthusiastic length about that stern virago.
11
And so the vile, vixenish virago wished the cat was dead.
12
The inanimate and delicate beauty then changed into a stormy virago.
13
My virago always gives me a dressing over the races, but I go.
14
A daughter of Beaumanoir does not share her lover with a crack-brained virago.
15
She has a very graceful virago-sleeve with handsome knots of ribbon.
16
He declared that they originated with that abominable virago, Mrs. Stantiloup.
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