At first that cruel and remorseless man trembled--actually turned pale and trembled in the presence of the virago who thus attacked him.
Nay, the virago volunteered," he explained, with a look that seemed to supplement speech in the suggestion that it were best to let Mistress Satchell have her own way.
Lord Fawley gasped as the virago swaggered towards his companions, and young Ingrow popped his handkerchief into his mouth and bit at it while he stared with eyes of nursery wonder at the dame.
Virago and shrew as she was, she could not look at him as he lay there so death-like, without a feeling of compassion.
Altogether she was far from the virago or "witch" her mother-in-law had described her to be.
Virago her Daughter', which is excellent sense but lacks the point of 'he Daughter'.
But this appearance of the virago and her threats only roused Uncle Moses to fresh determination.
At this the old virago howled out some insane maledictions, and urged the crowd on.
She was their old friend, or rather enemy--the virago herself, and no other!
Who but a soi-disant woman-hater would pick up a strange virago and send his sister to her with twenty pounds?
He said he was sure both girls disliked his virago in their hearts, so he had compelled them to spend an hour together, without any man to soften their asperity.
Sauvage's soldierly figure surprised him so much that he started in spite of himself, a kind of homage to which the virago was quite accustomed.
La Cibot heard a heavy footstep, and the asthmatic wheezing of a virago within, and Mme.
Without a word he listened to the virago dropping hints about there being in this world cruel, heartless children who abandon their parents.
My virago can't stay long in the same place with her temper.
My viragoalways gives me a dressing over the races, but I go.
It was to this redoubtable virago that Henri and Babette had betaken themselves in the market place directly school was over.
So long as the conflict was maintained on nearly equal terms, the man contented himself with witnessing it; but when the elder virago was likely to master the young one, he rose out of bed, and interfered in behalf of the latter.
You saw the bloated virago always appearing from under a bunchy and soft mass, with small fiery eyes that peered about in every direction, as if she felt she had come there to favour the judges, who were bound accordingly to admire her.
Meanwhile the work of coaling the Virago went on vigorously, and by six in the evening the brig had hauled off from her side, and all hands were employed in cleaning and washing down.
Hailing a passing schooner, the captain inquired how long the Virago had been in port.
Did not the captain of the Virago say that the Lady Alicia was going northward to New Britain?
And say that there is a chance of your being able to get back to Australia by the Virago some time within six months.
Why not go on board the Virago and see Captain Byng?
I am not very sorry that the Virago is not returning to Sydney before the Lady Alicia, as, although Captain Byng would give me a passage, I would rather stay with Captain Hawkins.
After lunch the commander told the master of the brig that the Virago was not returning to Australia for another four or five months, when another ship would be sent to relieve her in her surveying work among the islands.
The captain of the Virago has just told me that you have been pardoned.
Virago cries, And swift as lightning to the combat flies.
Now meet thy fate," th' incensed virago cried, 140 And drew a deadly bodkin from her side.
When Ormond was sober, his pride commonly restrained him from allowing the women to molest his leisure; so he quietly turned from the virago and ordered her out of the store.
The wrath of the virago was instantly kindled, while her horrid face gleamed with that devilish ferocity, which, in some degree is lost by Africans who dwell on our continent.
And so the vile, vixenish viragowished the cat was dead.
The deacon's wife grew sick, and the vile, vinegar-tongued, vixenish viragosaid that the deacon was an old brute.
Coldly he eyed this golden-haired virago now, and looked in vain for some trace of her wonted beauty in the stormy distortion of her face.
It did not, on exploration, yield a single arrow-head.
This was spoken to the maid in the voice of Jane the virago and Henrietta fled.
It was hard to believe that this graceful woman was the virago Jane, harder for any one that had seen a heavy, handsome girl stride into Mrs. Upper's hotel and ask for work, to believe that she was here.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "virago" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
