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Women who clamour about “women’s rights.”
“By Jove, I suppose my life wouldnʹt be worth a moment’s purchase if I made public these sentiments of mine at a meeting of the Shrieking Sisterhood.”—The World, 24th February, 1892, p. 25.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.