They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
There were also other so-called places of amusement, which blazed with electric light from dusk till dawn, where refreshments were served at little wooden tables while painted harridans from Hamburg cackled suggestive songs to the accompaniment of a cracked piano.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
"You may take my word for it, sir," said Mr. Rushcroft with feeling, "heroism, and nothing less, is necessary to the man who has to play opposite most of the harridans you, in your ignorance, speak of as girls."
"Green Fancy"
George Barr McCutcheon