To what you call the hag-ridden moron jittering out of sight in your mind, so many things equate to a threat to survival. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
The term yamanba comes from a mountain hag, known as Yama-uba, whom the fashion is thought to resemble. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives] Reference
Shakespeare generally uses the word in an uncomplimentary sense -- 'hag' -- but it is not so used here. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
Her eyes haunted me; they had what is called a hag-ridden look. From Wordnik.com. [Lore of Proserpine] Reference
How could she be called a hag if she was a hot little number as he expected she would be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Countess] Reference
This old hag is out of her G-D mind!. From Wordnik.com. [Ferraro: Reagan Dems find Obama campaign 'frightening'] Reference
You can't tear around causing this kind of hag nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Maura's Game]
But the "hag" did not come down, nor did she give any answer. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
I see no retraction of your sexist, swine-like comment, to wit, that Ms. Ferraro is a "hag". From Wordnik.com. [Ferraro Resigns From The Clinton Campaign] Reference
In the Southern United States, the appearance of the "hag" often indicates approaching tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
The "hag" is sure to be about, and even if you did manage to give her the slip, there's your husband. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
Thus, this discovery can also shed new light on the religious processions and the meaning of the Hebrew word for festival, "hag". From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
"hag" was trembling violently, and saw that all was lost. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
"I don't know how that may be, but if you could see Mrs. Allen, you would say that 'hag' were a better term for her than woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Allen House] Reference
"Going up to a little house, she found an old hag" 74. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
His last words were -- "tell the old hag she may go to --.". From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
"I've come from being an ugly old hag to a beautiful princess.". From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
Hapacuson also, that decrepit hag, who personated the righteous. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
"Ah, 'tis the Phoenix!" exclaimed the hag, peering at them again. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
A hard-featured hag, in a faded suit of an obsolete fashion -- the. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
"Ugly old hag!" was May MacGreggor's comment upon the odd boulder. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Speak out, hag, or I will wrest thy life from out thy vile carcase!. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
"Don't you worry none Rock Man," Cooed the old hag, "I got my teeth out.". From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference
Said the hag: "How would you like to stay here with me, for I want a maid?". From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
Nevertheless the hag gets a good thrashing from the duped and angry husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The dirty, old, old man who'd been with the hag, cleared his throat, and ask. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference
I imagine at once that he must be dreaming of the old hag and her wolfish shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Make much of your steed! "cried the hag, shaking at him her long and bony finger.". From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Really if you go on fretting in this manner, you'll wear yourself into an old hag. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Golo being alone, an old hag Margaretha, whom he takes for his nurse, comes to console him. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
If I looked very different, I would probably look in the mirror and think: "Who's this old hag?". From Wordnik.com. [Is it time to go grey?] Reference
Old woman in the cavewas Edith's creature, a worn stalagmite hag bitter as limestone water. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
The Doctor obeyed, and in answer to the summons an old, wrinkled, blear-eyed hag made her appearance with the liquor. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
When the hag came into her hut again and found the girl gone, she ran to the chimney to see if she had carried off the bag. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
Old mountain hag: Young woman with suntan-colored face, dyed hair with white streaks, silver-colored lips and whitish eye shadow. From Wordnik.com. [You Old Mountain Hag!] Reference
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