In the book, there’s a stark difference between Other Neighbors’ apartments before and after the beldam is trying to seduce Coraline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Review – Coraline « Become A Robot] Reference

"Why, they strike them, I suppose!" says the beldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

“Out upon the penurious old beldam!” said the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

The beldam caught her cue readily and by innuendo, without giving Lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

"Here, beldam -- deyvil's kind," cried Hatteraick in his harshest voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

I know Coraline was the main hero, mostly defeating the beldam in the Other World.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Review – Coraline « Become A Robot] Reference

Van Gelder's housekeeper, a charming old beldam who's lost her broomstick, dresses like that. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puppet on a Chain]

"You did, did you?" says I. "Does every Briton in Jhansi leap to attention when this beldam snaps her fingers, then?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

With knife in hand, and murderous thoughts in his heart, Nathan raised a corner of the mat, and glared for a moment upon the beldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

` ` Madge = Hellfire, = as they ca 'her!' echoed the beldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

"Make the old beldam go away, won't you?" whispered the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Place to Place] Reference

The beldam caught her cue readily and by innuendo, without giving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

I have heard of over-bold men being smote by the evil eye of a beldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,] Reference

'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam?' said one of the gipsies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference

And the old beldam folded her arms, and looked the pacha boldly in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference

The old beldam, throwing herself into a chair, fell a blubbering and exclaiming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6] Reference

"This is a make-peace fashion of yours," said the beldam, relaxing into a smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,] Reference

"I retained it," said the beldam, "lest he should pick out the diamonds and pawn them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

Formerly fate seemed to smile upon me; now she shows herself a scowling capricious beldam.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference

However, I was so diverted with this old beldam and her magnificence, that I made this epitaph for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

"Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference

With yards akimbo, she says unto him scornfully, as the old beldam said to the little dwarf: -- "Help yourself".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference

` ` Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

` ` Yes, 'answered the beldam, ` ` the hour when you shall hear, and I shall speak, is indeed passing rapidly away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Then he mounted his horse, perplexed and confounded for that which he had heard from the lying old beldam and saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference

'Here, beldam, deyvil's kind,' growled the harsh voice of Dirk Hatteraick from the inside of his den, 'what makest thou there?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference

This person was the ungainly and repulsive beldam whom I have already noticed as ministering in the household concerns of the hut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,] Reference

Abudah, the merchant in the fantastic eastern tale; but, unlike that pertinacious beldam, she apparently had no message to deliver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop's Secret] Reference

He was cool enough to see that nothing could save the beldam -- he was calculating enough to risk nothing in an effort so hopeless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference

"Now for this beldam," said Whately, sternly, as Aun 'Jinkey approached, tottering in her excess of fear and accompanied by Perkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Lou] Reference

'Fool,' said I, 'it was the officers she feared; and at any rate why does that beldam still dare to pollute the island with her presence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dynamiter] Reference