termagant

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The Spirit of the Unborn Babe went wildered in the dark; Like termagants the winds tore down and whirled it with the snow.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements their souls retire: The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George

That stool serves at present to duck scolds and termagants.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

Amongst the painter’s most successful representations of fishwives and termagants we should distinguish the “Hille Bobbe” of the Berlin Museum, and the “Hille Bobbe with her Son” in the Dresden Gallery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

She is high mettled, but I have dealt with termagants before—and brought them down, by God!—and brought them down!

From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson