“Ah-h-h!” growled the journeyman, between his teeth, “I’d hold you, if you was my wife. I’d hold you under the pump, and choke it out of you.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 15. Orlick threatens Mrs. Joe after the two of them exchange insults, she calling him “the blackest-looking and the worst rogue” and he labeling her “a foul shrew.” Orlick’s threats are foreshadowing of his later violence to Mrs. Joe.