Care and fear and shrewishness dropped like a mask from every face.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin
You've been our bane, and by your shrewishness Brew'd this disturbance.
"The Comedies of Terence"
Publius Terentius Afer
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.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells