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crone
1. He looked up at that damned moon and saw that his wife sat there, in a little crater all of her own, looking exactly as she had done in the days before the fevers sunk her cheeks and turned her into an old crone before her time
2. “If you weren’t a pauper, you’d have a proper household, with proper slaves to cook and clean for you, instead of that corpse Philemon and that old crone whatshername who
3. Perhaps a child had arisen before its mother, or some half-senile old crone lost her way upon coming back from the spring, out for an early-morning pot of fresh water
4. The Crone is beautiful
5. I walk with the Crone
6. Back in the street an ancient crone sat in the dust holding out five wrinkled tomatoes, offering them for sale
7. I enticed the crone to the furthest point from the entrance with chatter that suggested an interest in both her and the display, and kept her simpering while Jon sauntered in, looked in the storeroom, under the stairs and office
8. However, his irritation turned to pity, pity for Sebastian, when he learned that the ancient crone was his favourite pupil‘s mother
9. ‗Did you see that old crone who sat beside the Boss? – she was his secretary when I first arrived
10. and was told of an old crone
11. He said to the crone at her door:
12. But the crone, trying her powers to hide, replied:
13. Answered the crone: He is elderly, dressed in a cloak;
14. Had Leofric known how heavy the old crone would weigh, though, he might not have conceded
15. The three faces of “the goddess” (our mother-source) are maiden, mother, crone
16. You will be all 3, but only as the last, though a tired, worn-out crone, are you the whole
17. “Legend has it that many years ago on an autumn night while the Earl traveled this road he was approached by an old crone begging for food
18. "Tell the old crone I'm glad I died," Barnaby Wiggam said, straightening
19. Could not look upon an ugly, toothless crone
20. If the crone were anyone but Dafyd’s wife, he would have abandoned
21. A hideous crone mocked him
22. He felt a momentary flash of hope as he saw the faces of humans, only to be dashed to despair when he saw the face of a hideous crone, with hooked nose and rotten teeth who cackled and mocked
23. “What does she look like? How will I recognise her? In my mind, she looks like an ugly old crone
24. Instead, I unpacked my saddlebags and took out some camp food, took a drink from my water-bottle and wandered over to stand with Medraut, himself sour-faced and still menacing the old crone like he was
25. The old crone wept and the other women stood firm with each other, holding onto each other, all of us enemies together in the rain
26. A crone standing by with a smoky oillamp rams her last bottle in the maw of his sack
27. The crone makes back for her lair, swaying her lamp
28. ” You know when an old prewar building in Manhattan is bought by a developer and all the new tenants are cool yuppies, except there’s one old rent-control crone left over from the Depression? And the landlord really wants to evict her but because of tenant rights has to pretend like “No, we love Crelga; she’s so colorful and full of attitude
29. When Werner overhears Frederick’s mother say to a woman, “Oh, the Schwartzenberger crone will be gone by year’s end, then we’ll have the top floor, du wirst schon sehen,” he glances at Frederick, whose smudged eyeglasses have gone opaque in the candlelight, whose makeup looks strange and lewd now, as though it has intensified the bruises rather than concealed them, and a feeling of great uneasiness overtakes him
30. “Pray, ser, pray for the Crone to light your way!” Dunk kept walking
31. And beneath the shining lantern of the Crone knelt Lord Ambrose Butterwell, head bowed, praying silently for wisdom
32. “Aye,” said the first Witch, a wither’d Crone, with a black Eyepatch and Wisps of white Hair peeping out from under her Hood
33. A crone in a stained cloak and cowl hobbled in, stooped over a cane
34. “There was a gentleman out hunting with the Lady Julia o’ Thursday,” answered the crone, “as carried his arm in a sling, I heard tell; though he rode with the best of them
