How To Use Beldam In A Sentence
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You're gossiping like a pair of beldames," she chided them.
A DAY'S LODGING
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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
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The young Prince (Albert Perry) was almost smothered in the withered arms of the beldame.
Between the Acts
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We were in an alcove adjacent to one end, next to two ancient beldames who were tucking into a Gargantuan feast.
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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.
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There are two of us still to find, and the beldam is already angry with you for uncovering me.
CORALINE
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But she was not always an ancient beldam; some witches were known as the purest and fairest maidens of the village; some were ladies in high station; some were men.
The Age of the Reformation
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Imprisoned, tortured, deprived of sleep and with heads shaved in the case of women, since it was believed witches’ familiar spirits clung to their hair when the beldames took to the air on broomsticks, the first people to be accused implicated others, often unintentionally.
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The current view about witches is, we presume, that they were a collection of sour beldams and neurotic girls, unusually prone to hallucinations, who were the victims of terrified or malicious neighbours aided by ignorant and superstitious judges.
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He was one for consulting the ancient crones and beldames.
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On the other hand, she is definitely the beldame of taste.
It’s No Name-Calling Week, mofos! « raincoaster
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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.
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“What work are you about now?” says Judy, making an ancient snap at her like a very sharp old beldame.
Bleak House
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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
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I have a curiosity to hear my fortune told: therefore, Sam, order the beldame forward.
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It is remarkable to see that the Dutch painter Ton Dubbeldam often chooses themes that beautifully come together with his impressionistic and pointillist techniques.
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Roused by the sight of one ‘winsome wench’ among the old beldams, Tam shouts to her.
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There are two of us still to find, and the beldam is already angry with you for uncovering me.
CORALINE
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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
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Replied the beldame, “O my daughter, we fear for thee.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Plucking up his sleeve, the beldame recognized the mole; and, staggering back in her chair, shrieked:
Between the Acts
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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