| 1. | It was you as did for your shrew sister.. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Is she so hot a shrew as she's reporte. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | By this reck'ning he is more shrew than she. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | If the shrew is worsted yet there remains to her woman's invisible weapon. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | Is Katharine the shrew illfavoured Hortensio calls her young and beautiful. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | Why should I you rehearse in special Her high malice she is a shrew at all. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | He looked back with his kindly, shrewd glance. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | Oh yes, you're a shrewd one at politics, I dare sa. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 12. | "If he is as shrewd as I think he is, consul, he will come.. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 13. | 'No,' said the doctor, with a very shrewd and satisfied look. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 14. | Jeeves is a tallish man, with one of those dark, shrewd faces. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 15. | thou be so shrewd of thy tongue. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 17. | He has a shrewd wit, I can tell you an. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 18. | A shrewd contriver and you know his means. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |