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Definition of Henpecking
1. henpeck [v] - See also: henpeck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Henpecking
Literary usage of Henpecking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Romance of the Ocean: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Wildfire to by Fanny Foley (1850)
"Lucy begins her School—Amusing Conversation—Water-spouts —Fanny thinks them of
no Use—Flare-up with Mrs. Parker— henpecking to some Tune — Another Sabbath ..."
2. Joseph Jefferson: Reminiscences of a Fellow Player by Francis Wilson (1906)
"It should be unnecessary to say that nothing in the story partakes more of satire
than this very subject of henpecking, which is here held up so humorously ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
""And weaving, spinning, coloring, reeling, twisting, cooking, clinching, henpecking,
I guess you are. Can you tell, dearest Maria, what is Latin for the ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... to herself for wanting any thing at alL The husbands of these sisters with
crotchets would never receive ruination or henpecking from their wives. ..."
5. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"... instead of turning into bed as usual, they all three slept upon the ground.
My patience could stand this phase of henpecking no longer, so I called in ..."
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