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As it is, however, if the House of Lords continue to prate the same old-wivish drivel they have been doing for the last twenty years, in this case, against French revolutions, and Prussian Agrarian Laws, we will not warrant the English nobility.
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“Tak’ a drappy mair, sir,” he whispered in a coaxing, old-wivish tone; “it’s a lang road to the kirkyard.”
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The foolish squabblings of old-wivish theologians over unimportant issues in Holy Writ, the sick frenzies of fanatical Catholics and Calvinists, the spiritual darkness of the Middle Ages and bygone centuries, none of these escape the whip of the author, who scourges them as the usurers driven from the Temple of God.
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There is also her sadly beautiful but rambling old-wivish account of the last hours of Falstaff (H V, II, iii, 9-28).
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