As long as they [Xanthippe and Myrto, Socrates' wives] diſagreed, they were continually ſcolding, brawling, or fighting, with each other; and whenever they agreed, they both joined in brawling [verb sense 2] at him, and often fell on him with their fiſts as well as with their tongues, and beat him ſoundly.

a rigorous officer of justice

Peter Zahradnick is hammily creepy as the doomed handyman who wises up to Rhoda before anyone else.

Helen Seibold Bohn was extremely pleased to get one of the ice cream chairs when the drug store ceased to exist.