What is "xantippe"

Usage examples of "xantippe".

He and Xantippe would train the boy so carefully that he would grow up to be a great man, and, what was more, a rich man.

For in his dreams he saw Xantippe and his child starving and crying for food, and he was unable to help them in any way.

But Xantippe was too busy folding out the creases of her cloak to notice him.

Then he ran swiftly downstairs, and Xantippe, as she lay down wearily beside her boy, heard a woman laugh.

Gaining the street, he wandered along till he reached the bazaars, intending to waste an hour or two until Xantippe should have left the house.

Still he wished Xantippe had not looked out of the window, though of course he could easily explain things to her.

And Xantippe was really so angry the night before, explanations were better postponed for a time.

He walked quietly to the corner of the room, where Xantippe sat nursing the boy, touched the child gently on the forehead with his lips, and then went out.

While eating his breakfast he inquired cunningly concerning this wise teacher of the gospels of love and hate, but Xantippe for a time did not answer.

He was contented enough now to sit all day with Madam Marx, and returned to his home in the evening when Xantippe was away.

In spite of her fear lest she should irritate him, Xantippe shrank from his touch.

Cat-like, Xantippe had waited her opportunity and sprang away from his grasp.

With a last look at Xantippe dead upon the floor, the two left the room and made fast the bolt before descending the stairs.

For when the sun set, she had an appointment with Xantippe, the slave-keeper of the arena, to select her opponent for the fight tomorrow.

Midsummer, the days when Xantippe combed the slave-markets for new stock.