On the other hand, she is definitely the beldame of taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [it’s No Name-Calling Week, mofos! « raincoaster] Reference

Replied the beldame, “O my daughter, we fear for thee.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

"There, you lying old beldame!" said the Baron; "now take him away to the knacker's.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference

(There is a touch of the eighteenth-century beldame in her as she speaks these words).    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference

The young Prince (Albert Perry) was almost smothered in the withered arms of the beldame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

"Thou darest not risk harming the unicorn either, beldame," Zebub pointed out maliciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

Yet "Dodd" worked the genius of this respectable old beldame to the very verge of bankruptcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference

“Human Justice” rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with arms akimbo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

Plucking up his sleeve, the beldame recognized the mole; and, staggering back in her chair, shrieked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

She said it was her best ... the old beldame ... she screeched at me, and hit out with her stick ... '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

The beldame meanwhile, because that was enough, had sunk back on her chair, the beads dangling from her fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

The beldame has the impudence too, after she has brought me into this dilemma, to solicit my assistance to stock the farm anew!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference

This parroting of a penurious beldame who once was in the habit of cadging meals by this means was completely incomprehensible to Lone.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than Human]

'I'll strangle thee,' said the beldame, dashing at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

"I'll strangle thee," said the beldame, dashing at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

+ And howe doth our old beldame here, Mage Mumblecrust?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Roister Doister] Reference

Replied the beldame, "O my daughter, we fear for thee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

"Hold thy tongue, old beldame!" said the leader imperiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls] Reference

The beldame shook her head sorrowfully, as she answered sagely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure] Reference

"Had not that old beldame resisted us we should have caught them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Maritza] Reference

The result of an interview with that iniquitous old beldame proved that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop's Secret] Reference

Seymour was awoke by the old beldame -- from a dream in which the form of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Own] Reference

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

Mawsie, a beldame, lived in the cottage that had once been the Catholic manse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference

Perhaps a granny beldame in a Parisian alley; perhaps for years asleep in Pere la Chaise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference

I am neither childish-young, nor beldame-old, but, the world says, a good agreeable woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer] Reference

"Come in, child, come in," said the old beldame, as with palsied hands she undid the fastenings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend] Reference

League, after struggling feebly for the past few years, a decrepit beldame, was at last dead and buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

It was some time before the ruffled temper of the beldame could be appeased: at last, Vanslyperken succeeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend] Reference

It is the dry squeak of the planes in your own hand that you keep hearing, so go on with your work, you son of a beldame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

"'Be he alive or be he dead, I'll have his brains to butter my bread!'" concluded Cap. "Be silent!" shrieked the beldame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'] Reference

The beldame knocked loudly at the gate, and immediately she sprang back; but when the travellers again looked round she was gone!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Medea, standing before him, looked a withered and shrunken beldame, a woman bent with years, but yet with eyes that were bright and living.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference