How To Use beldam In A Sentence
- You're gossiping like a pair of beldames," she chided them. A DAY'S LODGING
- Influenced by such considerations, he yielded to the first importunity of the beldame, whom he dismissed at a very small distance from the village, after he had earnestly exhorted her to quit such an atrocious course of life, and atone for her past crimes, by sacrificing her associates to the demands of justice. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
- The young Prince (Albert Perry) was almost smothered in the withered arms of the beldame. Between the Acts
- We were in an alcove adjacent to one end, next to two ancient beldames who were tucking into a Gargantuan feast.
- The broken hollow path bending upwards round the base, is always occupied by a grotesque group of cripples and beldames, in rags and tatters, laughing and whining and praying.
- There are two of us still to find, and the beldam is already angry with you for uncovering me. CORALINE
- And does it not appear to you that this same beldame incontinence shuts out wisdom, which is the best of all things,575 from mankind, and plunges them into the opposite? Memorabilia
- I had arrived, it appeared, just in time for the September harvesting of the grapes, judging from the comments of the beldames whom I heard as I broke away from the friendly breeze that had borne me over the Channel to this exquisite little valley in the heart of France.
- And the King comported himself to that aged beldame in all ways with the utmost consideration as though she had been a beautiful dame of the highest degree in the land.
- I returned to the same private school as before, but I returned no longer an innocent child prepared to have irrelevant knowledge poured into my head by the old beldame who ran the place.