Nettler

But theſe are the Nettlers, theſe are the babbing Bookes that tell, though not halfe your fellows feats.

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The husband is a mildly stuffy blueblood who somewhat nettles his high-style-model wife, but she is a brisk, free-wheeling creature who is a bit of a nettler herself.

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But for all the archivist energies and pack-rat instincts of its founder, the Church League of America never became much more than a filing system turned noisy, a nettler of liberals, a voice that suggested that the ecumenical forces could not alone own the day.

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That thrust you gave me, Tims, has prov'd a nettler— Your stab turns out, what I have been, — a Settler!

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