beldame

Example Sentences

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He stakes out Pendle Hill, a landscape of moors and mists, mossy baptismal pools and forests, ready to accost beldames on their broomsticks.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2012

He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks and brawlers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fiends, ghosts, and sprites, Who haunt the nights, The hags and goblins do me know; And beldames old My feats have told; So Vale, Vale; ho, ho, ho!

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank

Zuloaga relates that the beldames screeched and fought in his studio when he posed them.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

And first let the reader turn to Scene 5 of Act III., which consists almost entirely of a long speech by Hecate, beginning: Have I not reason, beldames as you are, Saucy, and overbold?

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various