beldame

Example Sentences

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But once Alex talks to UBA's beldame, whose grandfather founded the network and simply wants all of it to go away, she realizes the right interviewer isn't her.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would die in his bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide."

From Time Magazine Archive

Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The words were not out of my mouth before there was a thumping upon the floor outside, and the voice of the beldame spoke sharply: "No talking, girls!"

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy