beldames

"You're gossiping like a pair of beldames," she chided them.

A DAY'S LODGING 2010

How sweet those hours! where beldames, fine and fat,

The Age Reviewed 2010

Then, too, there are other treacherous beldames giving themselves out to be innocent pleasures, to wit, dicings and profitless associations among men. 19 These in the fulness of time appear in all their nakedness even to them that are deceived, showing themselves that they are after all but pains tricked out and decked with pleasures.

Oeconomicus 2007

We passed through several villages, as I suppose I may term them, of low huts, the walls formed of rough stones without mortar, the roof of flags laid over wattles and wicker-work; they seemed to be inhabited solely by women and children; the latter were naked, the former, in general, blear-eyed beldames, who sat beside the doors on low stools, spinning.

Lavengro 2004

The dump of boots outside, the croaking of old beldames from attic to attic, the dull murmur of morning, unnerved him, and, dozing, he slumped in his chair, his brain, overladen with sound and color, working intolerably over the imagery that stacked it.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

Carteret [18] showed me my hat out of her window five doors off, where I was forced to walk to it, and pay her and old Lady Weymouth [19] a visit, with some more beldames.

The Journal to Stella 2003

See, they are fallen on sleep, these beldames old,

The Eumenides 2002

See, they are fallen on sleep, these beldames old,

The Eumenides 2002

Look at these beldames, sporting ribbons and stars,

POEMS BY PHILIP HOBSBAUM, 1963-1972 1972

Look at these beldames, sporting ribbons and stars,

STUDY IN A MINOR KEY 1972