beldam

• Truly the capture of Dirk Hatteraick was no light adventure, and Bertram, having been warned by Dandie in a cautious whisper of Hazlewood's arrival, thought within himself that they would be none the worse of the third who had come so opportunely to their assistance Here, beldam--deyvil's kind," cried Hatteraick in his harshest voice, "have you brought me the brandy and news of my people Here is the flask for you," answered Meg, passing it to him; "but as for your crew, they are all cut down and scattered by the redcoats Storm and wetter, ye hag," he cried, "ye bring ill news. —  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
• Winter is a withered old beldam, too poor to keep a cat, hurkling on her hunkers over a feeble fire of sticks, extinguished fast as it is beeted, with a fizz in the melted snow which all around that unhoused wretchedness is indurated with frost; while a blue pool close at hand is chained in iciness, and an old stump, half buried in the drift. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• This little beldam, with her beady eyes and her laughter, was the wicked witch of our childhood days; she had shut us up in a charnel-house to die I heard him tapping the pavement before him with his scabbard, using it as a blind man's staff. —  Helmet of Navarre
• The song, thus barbarously chanted, at first startled and affrighted the captive; but its monotony had at last an effect which the beldam was far from designing. —  Nick of the Woods
• The beldam, who was still busy kindling the pile, roused from her toil by the shouts of the enemy and the shrieks of her flying people, looked up a moment, and then snatching at a knife dropped by some fugitive, rushed upon Stackpole, who was nearest her, with a wild scream of revenge. —  Nick of the Woods

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