Every Amazon took part with one or other of the disputants, and brandished her arms dripping with soapsuds, and fired away from her window as from the embrazure of a fortress; while the swarms of children nestled and cradled in every procreant chamber of this hive, waking with the noise, set up their shrill pipes to swell the general concert.

Coordinate term: weekendish

[…]and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhorte pꝛæludium.

Through the long visto of a thousand years