My heart swelled with admiration for his maturity, then contracted shrewishly as he gallantly opened the car door for Leonie. ❋ Hester Browne (2008)
She apparently just called into "Hardball" to confront the shrewishly shrewd Ann Coulter for her personal attacks. ❋ Unknown (2007)
What binds it together is ultimately stronger than the misadventures of its members, the most spectacular of which is Michelle's farcical arrest for "molesting" Jordan, a minor, especially in his mother's shrewishly suspicious eyes. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Termagant was talking most shrewishly with my factory at New Sestros. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Marvellous it was to see him do this; springing from place to place, and changing his whole aspect in a flash -- now scolding shrewishly in the words of Violet Hartman, now discoursing, with the accent and manner of Prof, von Arne, upon the _psychopathia_ _sexualis_ of Genius. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
"That's it," I cried shrewishly, with my back against the door. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
"I won't tell you his name, either," Edith added, shrewishly. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
And, because her nerves were drawn taut until they were ready to snap, Sidney turned on him shrewishly. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly: one would think his mothers milk were scarce out of him. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Uniacke smiled, and laid his hand on a bell which tinkled shrewishly. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
Mr. Martin noted this manoeuvre -- it occurred regularly twice a day -- with a stealthy smile at the girl, and her light skin flushed while her lip curled shrewishly at the old gentleman. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
"What has _he_ got to do with you?" said James shrewishly. ❋ Unknown (1907)
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. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)
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. ❋ Arthur Symons (1905)
When at last he found opportunity for closing the interview and riding on, her anger-sharpened voice followed him shrewishly afar. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)
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. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
The possession of such a gift is a thing to thank God for; the absence of it is not a thing to be shrewishly condemned. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
She struck her seeming fellow-servant a smart rap with the basting-ladle, and called out, shrewishly, -- ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
