Scolds
[skəuldz]
Examples
- She's plenty of tin; she wears a front; and she scolds the servants from morning till night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mother, are you angry when you fold your lips tight together and go out of the room sometimes, when Aunt March scolds or people worry you? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A ducking stool was a sort of a chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He smokes his hookah after both meals and puffs as quietly while his wife scolds him as he did under the fire of the French at Waterloo. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We never quarrel--I don't call him harsh--he never scolds me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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