Termagant was talking most shrewishly with my factory at New Sestros.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

She apparently just called into "Hardball" to confront the shrewishly shrewd Ann Coulter for her personal attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Edwards Calls Into Hardball, Confronts Coulter - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

My heart swelled with admiration for his maturity, then contracted shrewishly as he gallantly opened the car door for Leonie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference

"Good Martin! forgive me that I spake shrewishly to thee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

"I won't tell you his name, either," Edith added, shrewishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Poor Wise Man] Reference

"That's it," I cried shrewishly, with my back against the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a Man Marries] Reference

Uniacke smiled, and laid his hand on a bell which tinkled shrewishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tongues of Conscience] Reference

He is very well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelfth Night; or What You Will] Reference

He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly: one would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene V. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will] Reference

When at last he found opportunity for closing the interview and riding on, her anger-sharpened voice followed him shrewishly afar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories] Reference

The foreman patted his ears briskly, for the night wind was sweeping down the lake and squalling shrewishly about the corners of buildings in the little settlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainy Day Railroad War] Reference

James may be urgent to save his mother -- nay, he hath written more sharply and shrewishly than ever he did before; but as for this Gray, whatever he may say openly, we know that he has whispered to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

But she caught him, scolded him shrewishly and slapped his cheek until he backed from her wall-eyed, and then she mounted him and went clattering down off the ridge without having seen any snake dens at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skyrider] Reference

These middle-aged people, who wrangle shrewishly behind the just turned back of the husband and almost in the hearing of the child, are people in whom it is impossible to be interested, apart from any fine meanings put into them in the acting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

Maud obeyed instantly, though with sundry mutterings, which, well for her, her lady heard not; for the Lady Frances was somewhat shrewishly given, and could scold as if she had not been a princess, the rank and bearing of which she was most anxious to assume, and carry as highly as the noblest born in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buccaneer A Tale] Reference

They admit his claim to eminence as an adventurer in 'the discovery of the Ugly'; but they contend that even there he did his work more shrewishly and more pettily than he might; and in this connection they go so far as to reflect that a snob is not only 'one who meanly admires mean things,' as his own definition declares, but one who meanly detests mean things as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

Orange of collusion with his designs, and of a disposition to seek their private advantage and not the general good of the whole Netherlands; the imminent danger, which he had aggravated, that the Walloon provinces, actuated by such suspicions, would fall away from the "generality" and seek a private accord with Parma; these and similar sins of omission and commission were sharply and shrewishly set forth in the Queen's epistle.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

2. A woman regarded as coarse and shrewishly abusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Anniversary.] Reference

He is very well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelfth Night; or, What You Will] Reference

"I'll do nothing of the kind," I said shrewishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a Man Marries] Reference

454: and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelfth Night (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

Though she herself had, early in her married life, grown tired and quiet, had early learned to bargain shrewishly with the merchants of the cheaper foods and, after the first three years, had always had her birthdays forgotten; though she had been perfectly willing and ready to urge her daughter into the life domestic, upon a small income, yet regrets took her and sighs, all of perfect resignation, when she saw the darkness under Marie's eyes, when she stood by in the market and heard her hard chaffering, when she noted the worried crinkles come to stay in her brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married Life The True Romance] Reference