How To Use Virago In A Sentence
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There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
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Rosie Boycott was not involved editorially with Virago.
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You'd think the planet was populated by viragoes the way tempers are flaring for no reason at all.
The Rowan
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This other Pallas — the word itself can be accented to have a feminine or masculine meaning in our language, but here it is close to the Latin word virago, which means ‘strong virgin’ — had been killed in a sham fight with Athena.
Ilium
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Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card.
"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
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She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it's going to get ugly, with the hurling of dangerous words like viragos and cathexis and — my personal favorite — "sycophantish":
"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
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I mutely watched two petite viragos lob insults at each other over the ethics of having a friend hold one's place in line.
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It afterwards appeared that the two of Lafayette's Paris militiamen posted at the outer gateway had betrayed their trust and let in the mob of viragoes and armed brigands who pressed for admittance early in the morning.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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Femme Gougeon, as leader of a horde of viragoes, was rushing among them shrieking more fiendishly than ever.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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Anne Royall 1769 – 1854 a hero of feminism… but in her day… she was “called a virago and a monomaniac” - now that such things are “normalized” we can celebrate her without a concern.
Prager on the 2010 election
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It was not the glance of a cheerful guardian of the shelves, but instead the leer of a triumphant virago.
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She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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Virago, who chucked in varsity studies to join P&O as a 19-year-old in 1995, urges more women to consider maritime careers.
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It's the most unputdownable novel since Sarah Waters' beautifully crafted Fingersmith (Virago).
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She sat there and took it like some kind of valkyrie or virago, perhaps the harpies of ancient myth.
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Calvin uses the word virissa; Dathe, after Le Clerc, the word vira; and though neither of them are strictly classical, yet are they far preferable to the term virago in the Vulgate, which Calvin justly rejects, and which means a woman of masculine character.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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Sic quisque dicit, alteram ducit tamen Who can endure a virago for a wife?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He rolled his eyes and bent his head close towards hers, looking for the entire world to be whispering sweet nothings into her ears, while actually saying ‘Would you cooperate, you obstinate virago?’
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Althouse: "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign...
"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
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As for "virago", it may be male in Shakespeare, but it was female all the way back to Plautus.
Languagehat.com: TERMAGANT.
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Such was Penthesilea, who, if we may credit ancient story, led her army of viragoes to the assistance of Priam, king of Troy; Thomyris, who encountered Cyrus, king of Persia; and Thalestris, famous for her fighting, as well as for her amours with Alexander the Great.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
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She was, he tells us, as indeed she had been in the preceding feudal centuries, often what we should nowadays call a virago, of violent temperament, with vivid passions, broken in from childhood to all physical exercises, sharing the pleasures and dangers of the knights around her.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
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These women were what Florence King calls "viragoes" -- not in the accepted sense of the nag, but in the original sense of the woman who is strong in and of herself.
American Thinker
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But the old man could not summon up the strength of mind to be quit of this succubine virago.
She Stands Accused
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He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again.
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In between these waggons the women are placed for safety, for it is a noticeable fact that very large numbers of women have followed their husbands and fathers to the war, not to act as viragoes, not to play the wanton, not to unsex themselves, not to handle the rifle, but to nurse the wounded, to comfort the dying, and to lay out the dead.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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Which then said: This is now a bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; and Adam gave her a name like as her lord, and said she should be called virago, which is as much as to say as made of a man, and is a name taken of a man.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1
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There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
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Well, did you get it?" one of them, apparently the "virago" herself, asked abruptly.
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
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Worst of all is the disastrous family his daughter is about to marry into, a graceless mob of halfwits headed by a foul-mouthed virago.
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He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago.
A dollop from Trollope | clusterflock
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She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
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Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
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Violent men were still men; violent women became superwomen, amazons, viragoes.
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He lies awake at night, with Laura in the next room, sleeping the sleep of the virago.
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She recalled the alarming news brought to the Hôtel de Noailles of the march of the viragoes on
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign...
"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
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Randle Holme says that a sleeve thus tied in at the elbow was called a virago sleeve.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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For my part, I would rather be condemned for life to the galleys than exercise the office of a cicisbeo, exposed to the intolerable caprices and dangerous resentment of an Italian virago.
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Before vanishing altogether, the woman warrior becomes a hideous virago in prints and paintings in France and abroad.
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She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career.
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The Virago was a prized possession, a heavily modified MandalMoters StarViper built to his exacting specifications.
