How To Use beldame In A Sentence
- He was one for consulting the ancient crones and beldames.
- The beldame has the impudence too, after she has brought me into this dilemma, to solicit my assistance to stock the farm anew! The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Plucking up his sleeve, the beldame recognized the mole; and, staggering back in her chair, shrieked: Between the Acts
- Replied the beldame, “O my daughter, we fear for thee.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- When the dismal news of his great loss was carried to the Prince, he suspected his godmother very much indeed; but, he knew that his servants must have kept company with the malicious beldame, and must have given way to her, and therefore he resolved to turn those servants out of their places. Reprinted Pieces
- I have a curiosity to hear my fortune told: therefore, Sam, order the beldame forward.
- Ferdinand sounded the beldame with a thousand artful interrogations, and she answered with such appearance of truth and simplicity, that he concluded his person was quite secure; and, after having been regaled with a dish of eggs and bacon, desired she would conduct him into the chamber where she proposed he should take his repose. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
- “What work are you about now?” says Judy, making an ancient snap at her like a very sharp old beldame. Bleak House
- 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.
- On the other hand, she is definitely the beldame of taste. It’s No Name-Calling Week, mofos! « raincoaster
