" The woman screamed after him, her voice an odd mixture of fear and shrewishness, "Sheb, you come back here!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gunslinger]

As soon as the words left her mouth she heard their shrewishness and would have called them back if she could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mourn Not Your Dead] Reference

And he suspected that her nature tended toward shrewishness, which he, as a soldier who despised any pettishness, personally disliked.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart] Reference

After Kitty Kelley's bio accused Nancy Reagan of greed, shrewishness and adultery with Frank Sinatra, Sinatra said he hoped Kelley walked in the path of "blind guys ... driving cars.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Or White] Reference

On first entering the nuptial hut, the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts memorable chastisement upon the fair person of his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness. 23 This is carrying out with a will the Arab proverb.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

A single, well articulated stroke on the door of my apartment, roused me at once to action, and I shouted, "come in," with nervous eagerness; it opened, and gave egress to a staid matron, of high stature, and sharp countenance; I would have pledged my existence on her shrewishness from the first moment I beheld her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference

While to some men association with so peculiar and trying a nature as Rusha Thornton's might have brought moroseness and all unloveliness, Duncan Lisle, like the philosopher of hemlock fame, had turned his wife's shrewishness into a coat of armor, within which he preserved his soul serene, contemplative, and peaceful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

My master looked at me with the shrewishness of an elephant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazarre] Reference

Care and fear and shrewishness dropped like a mask from every face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

In the presence of one man, Tennyson, she laid aside her shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Study of A W Kinglake]

He admits the intemperance and shrewishness of the mother; characterizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loves of Great Composers] Reference

Mrs. Pansey is the embodiment of all shrewishness, and yields unlimited amusement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop's Secret] Reference

The weather had broken, and the sharp wind was almost autumnal in its shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Affair at Styles] Reference

Norina, acting upon her instructions, launches forth upon a career of unexampled shrewishness, extravagance, and flirtation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference

As time went on and developed the sweetness of Pete, the man grew more and more distasteful to her, and she broke into fits of shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

When he buys a touring-car for the greater comfort of their vagrant life, she is appalled by the cost and upbraids him with more than a touch of shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountebank] Reference

The second act begins with a scene between Katharine and her sister, which conclusively proves that the reports of the former's shrewishness have not exceeded the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference

The strait she was in through pride and shrewishness could not be disguised longer: she burst out crying bitterly; they all saw it; and she attempted no further concealment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference

The queen, too intelligent, despite her shrewishness to the Staten; not to be faithful to the cause in which her own interests were quite as much involved as theirs, had promised.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

On first entering the nuptial hut the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts chastisement upon his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

If there are women who petulantly or sourly insist on more than this kind of harmony, it is probable that their system of divinity is little better than a special manifestation of shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

On first entering the nuptial hut, the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts memorable chastisement upon the fair person of his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

"I am afraid you have not had a happy life," said he, very gently, and the simplicity and kindness of his manner smote upon her stormy countenance, so that it melted and all the ugly hardness and latent shrewishness died away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringfield A Novel] Reference

Her shrewishness was that of the wilful madcap girl who has never been crossed rather than that of the inherently ill-tempered woman, and her every word and gesture, her every expression of face and tone of voice, were worth noting and watching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twenty-Fourth of June] Reference

He was inclined to believe, also, that a common offspring would have exerted a meliorating influence on the temper of Mrs. Melmoth, the character of whose domestic government often compelled him to call to mind such portions of the wisdom of antiquity as relate to the proper endurance of the shrewishness of woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanshawe] Reference

He was inclined to believe, also, that a common offspring would have exerted a meliorating influence on the temper of Mrs. Melmoth, the character of whose domestic government often compelled him to call to mind such portions of the wisdom of antiquity, as relate to the proper endurance of the shrewishness of woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanshawe] Reference

Of course it has its moments of relenting, of showing that warm, soft, winning phase which is the reverse of its obverse shrewishness, when the heart melts to it in a grateful tenderness for the wide, high, blue sky, the flood of white light, the joy of the flocking birds, and the transport of the buds which you can all but hear bursting in an eager rapture.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Films] Reference

"Indeed! indeed!" she said gently, "I do deserve your contempt, Sir, for my shrewishness and vixenish ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference

"on first entering the nuptial hut, the bridegroom draws forth his horsewhip and inflicts memorable chastisement upon the fair person of his bride, with the view of taming any lurking propensity to shrewishness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

Tennyson, she laid aside her shrewishness: "talking with Alfred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake] Reference

I have no gift at all in shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Midsummer-Night's Dream] Reference

There was a shrewishness in her voice now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

You've been our bane, and by your shrewishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of Terence] Reference