The crone is the old woman of great power whose life wisdom comes from both her great age and the many things she has lived through. From Wordnik.com. [The Crone and the Cauldron « bindu wiles] Reference
It's pronounced just like the word crone, being named for the French town Crosne. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION QUIZ.] Reference
Jill slips and calls the crone "mother" leading to a tender second between the two. From Wordnik.com. [Too Disgusting to Contemplate, Too Compelling to Ignore] Reference
Yes, we're sure they were very important members of their society but we bet they didn't like being called a crone any more than we do. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference
A delusional old crone is shillin 'for Hill. From Wordnik.com. [New Clinton ad stars Maya Angelou] Reference
The Lady, turning the crone from the castle gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Urchin’s Dark Kite « A Fly in Amber] Reference
But if we're looking for debate -- I prefer "crone" to "hag.". From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Privately Urging Her Pledged Delegates To Vote For Obama At Convention] Reference
At 40, I've "lived a bit" as well and am staring down "crone" status myself. From Wordnik.com. [Like a SPACEROCKET, Baby!] Reference
I didn't know "crone" was a euphemism for total hotness. xbradtc - November 27, 2008. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
A "crone" of the fem slaves offers Alldera to Kelmz and his crew as a slave for their journey. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist SF - The Blog!] Reference
I figured she was planning to enter her "crone" phase and was determined to go into it fully armed. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
"But won't you come in and rest?" the crone persisted. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
The crone went back and got the bodies of the four priests. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
It makes you a functioning female instead of a sexless old crone. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Give Up On Sex After 60] Reference
The crone peered at them over the top of her spectacles and cackled. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Confronting him in the doorway was the old crone who kept his house. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
"Know it!" said the crone, drawing nearer and with still more frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The crone was cautious, however, and knew well with whom she had to deal. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
He took a walk out One day, and came to an old crone who was busy baking. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
An old crone with a wrinkled but good-natured face came along to the arbour. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
And Wild-Rose, absorbed by that one idea, climbed quickly down the tree to teach the crone. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
The crone told him that Busujok had become the son of the emperor who reigned in the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
On the third afternoon of her nursing, Mercy left her patient, and called up the crone to tend him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
An experienced old crone was got to nurse him, and she told Mrs. Vint he would live may be three days. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
She was made up to resemble an old crone, and her fortune-telling kept her victims in gales of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
I didn't want to know what backwoods crone had taught her some mnemonic rendition of the Devil's Litany. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
Then the man told Ned that Alick was lying 'as ill as ill' in the house of an old crone who once belonged to the show herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Over a span of at least two decades, Munch had returned again and again to an image of a young beauty and a crone by the shore. From Wordnik.com. [At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process] Reference
In the middle of the chamber a little hideous crone in a Mother Hubbard crouched over a saucepan, stirring it with a wooden spoon. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Her nearly forty-year-old body was beginning to take on the bony tone of an old crone and he could see instantly how she would age. From Wordnik.com. [Complicated Game] Reference
Internally I was a crone, and I didn't care what I looked like: an ethic borrowed from my mother who cared about clothes but not hair. From Wordnik.com. [Car Talk] Reference
The girl turned to her with a rapid flow of soft liquid Spanish and the old crone, weeping and muttering, stood aside to let them enter. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"Baby's frills," replied the woman, coolly, recovering that contempt for the understandings of the dying which marks the veritable crone. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Having an understandably violent reaction to the word crone she looked it up in the dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference
The crone is the older woman from the time she can no longer reproduce until she dies. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
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