A flash of petulance is well enough and may become beauty as summer lightning decks the sky, but fury is for termagants, and nought but fury could fling my last guinea to the waves.
"Simon Dale"
Anthony Hope
And you Africans are such termagants, you stop at nothing.
"The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian"
John Dryden
Some of them were little termagants, all the dearer for that to men who like to conquer the shrew in a woman, if they do not have to do it too often.
"The Co-Citizens"
Corra Harris