scolder

Example Sentences

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Love's rather too apt to be left in the lurch By Orbilian smiters and scolders.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 3, 1891 by Various

I cannot tell what was Socrates wife, But mine I do know, alas, too well; She is one that is evermore full of strife, And of all scolders beareth the bell.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Grey squirrels are not such excited scolders as the little red chaps are, but this one did very well.

From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Hope, Laura Lee

I’ve seen all sorts—fretters, groaners, whiners, scolders; they’re all one to me.

From The Wall Between by Bassett, Sara Ware