| 单词 | beldam |
| 例句 | “Peradventure,” said a voice in the darkness, “if you could win your mamma and your papa back from the beldam, you could also win free our souls.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “The beldam swore by her good right hand,” said the tall girl, “but she lied.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Oh, keep going,” whispered a ghost voice in her ear, “for the beldam is angry.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The old beldam called him, and thought him, the shrewdest boy that ever lived; but, in truth, she had left him no longer a boy, in aught but size and looks. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z "A very good death, too," muttered the beldam, sullenly and low. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z "That beldam!" he exclaimed, with a terrible oath, and then, "God help them!" he said--twice. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Obedient to the sound, from far and near, the withered beldams, toothless hags in short petticoats, white linen hoods, and conical high crowned hats, come flocking on flying broomsticks. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z He will escape the epidemic madness that broods over its own injurious notions of the Deity, and "realizes the hell that priests and beldams feign." A Vindication of Natural Diet. 2012-02-02T03:04:34.883Z "Well, well, scornful mistress Lena, you may rue," replied the beldam. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Ill fits it warriors bold Like two testy beldams to squabble and to scold. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z The beldams shriek, the caldron bubbles; They dance, and stir it for our sins, And we must drain it for our troubles. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z This person was the ungainly and repulsive beldam whom I have already noticed as ministering in the household concerns of the hut. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Before the shops are open and the chimneys send forth their smoke, there may be now, sometimes, seen creeping up an area a sly-looking beldam, who treads as stealthily as a cat. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z "How does she know that he said so?" cried the beldam: "how should she know it but by my telling her?" The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z After a satisfactory answer, the door was slowly and cautiously opened, and the figure of a wrinkled, half-famished, and half-naked beldam appeared, shading a rush candle with one hand. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z What was it The gipsy beldam told me by the road? Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z "This is a make-peace fashion of thine," said the beldam, relaxing into a smile. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Then I looked at the cat—for in that moment I was firmly convinced this old beldam was a cat. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z I don't know, I don't know, my chick," rejoined the worthy beldam; "that Pharold is a knowing hand, and always gets more than any one else, work for it how they will. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z So leaving the image on the table, he strode towards the opposite door, which he opened wide, followed by the beldam. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z "Sir Robert has himself written me about that beldam," said the chamberlain. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 "This old beldam will bring the whole house about our ears," said Bourdin to Malicorne; "we've touched the blunt, our expenses and all, so I say 'Off' is a good word." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 The old beldam had managed it in some way. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z "The sooner we quit it the better, I say," cried the beldam who had been tending the pot. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z The beldam sat with her face towards Rodolph and the brigand. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 "Come this way, deary," said the beldam, addressing an infant that toddled across the floor near to her seat, at the same time extending her shrivelled arm to receive it. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Hence, beldam, from my presence! all, fly hence; You are all murderers. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 The old beldam facing me deemed it was from shame, and my inability to answer her question. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z "I came to see a play," said I, in amazement at the whole proceedings, "and here I find nothing but an old beldam that threatens me with the police." Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands "Fourline, be on your guard," cried the beldam, leaning over the opening of the trap; "draw your 'pinking iron.'" The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Noble poet, tell what chance Brought thee to this beldam's hut. Atta Troll Suppose you hated me and I thought you a beldam! When Ghost Meets Ghost ONG ago when fire was first brought to earth, it was given into the care of two beldams at the end of the world. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children To mind his orders was all he knew; The gates swung open, and out they flew “Where are our broomsticks?” the beldams cried. The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train Multitudes of women were there, too, from the girl of sixteen to the beldam of sixty, nor had mothers been ashamed to bring their infants in their arms into that loud and tumultuous assemblage. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 At last the beldam stopped in an out-of-the-way part of the town, before a strange-looking house. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Like an aged beldam she crouches in the heavens, ashes upon her head, weaving her ancient silver magic, spelling enchantment upon the nether Sea. The Masque of the Elements The coyote knew every inch of the road to the beldams’ hut. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children And on what," said the beldam, "after all does this mighty difference turn? The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck The miserable old beldam! she stretched out her finger to the sky, and it was to bring down these waterspouts upon my head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Was the beldam an enchantress, and were these little animals children, whom she had stolen and made victims of her enchantments? Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden "Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold?" The Romance of Names The beldams, not fearing a coyote in the least, invited him in. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children Proofs, as many as you please," cried the beldam: "trinkets with arms on them, clothes she had on at the time, a mole on her right shoulder, which of course her mother must know best. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Bel.This is weakness—worse Than a scared beldam's dreaming of the dead,350 And waking in the dark.—Go to—go to. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry This state of things was the more vexatious as Cargrim knew that the ex-sailor had seen Mother Jael, and shrewdly suspected that he had obtained from the beldam valuable information likely to incriminate the bishop. The Bishop's Secret First then, that you may be appris’d of all, Th’ old woman, thought her mother, was not so: That beldam also is deceas’d; for this I overheard her, as we came along, Telling the other. The Comedies of Terence He sprang to the window, and instantly outside were heard such sounds, that the beldams rushed out to see what the frightful noise could be. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children "Here, beldam—deyvil's kind," cried Hatteraick in his harshest voice, "have you brought me the brandy and news of my people?" Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North "Make the old beldam go away, won't you?" whispered the man. From Place to Place But ridicule in the hands either of cold-blooded or infuriated Malice, is harmless as a birch-rod in the palsied fingers of a superannuated beldam, who in her blear-eyed dotage has lost her school. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 But she was not always an ancient beldam; some witches were known as the purest and fairest maidens of the village; some were ladies in high station; some were men. The Age of the Reformation Indeed, it is no wonder that the beldams were frightened nearly to death. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children A bale of onions had been left aboard; a deck-hand seized it and ran quickly ashore with it, and then back again, followed by the benedictions of the tranquillized and comforted beldam. A Chance Acquaintance View the wither’d beldam’s face— Can thy keen inspection trace Aught of Humanity’s sweet melting grace? The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Let us to supper now, and forget those accursed beldam's tales. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Dietrich interrupted them, saying that it ill beseemed heroes to scold like ancient beldams, and forbade Hildebrand to say more. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine The beldams sprang after him and followed him closely over hill and valley. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children This little beldam, with her beady eyes and her laughter, was the wicked witch of our childhood days; she had shut us up in a charnel-house to die. Helmet of Navarre The song, thus barbarously chanted, at first startled and affrighted the captive; but its monotony had at last an effect which the beldam was far from designing. Nick of the Woods He had a certain amount of faith in the divinations of magic, and at least it could do no harm to see what the beldam would say. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot With yards akimbo, she says unto him scornfully, as the old beldam said to the little dwarf:—"Help yourself" And all this, and more than this, is a calm. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I He seized it carefully and jumped forward as fast as he could, but the hand of the foremost beldam caught him and held him fast. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children And the old beldam folded her arms, and looked the pacha boldly in the face. The Pacha of Many Tales 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. Nick of the Woods Let belles turn beldams if they find it jolly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Squall! yes—d——n my blood," wiping his face; "how the spray flew from the old beldam! Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Sad to tell, the beldam still held in her hand his special pride and care, his tail. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children "Madam," he cried, "you are a wonderful and bewitching old lady"—it was on the tip of his tongue to say "beldam." The Mettle of the Pasture Go quick, and fetch a squill from some old beldam's tomb. Theocritus, translated into English Verse The old beldam, throwing herself into a chair, fell a blubbering and exclaiming. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 "My little sister is not beaten now," said the beldam. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction I hear she's been telling you I'm drunk, Mother Hart—didn't you, you old beldam? Good Indian Argia somewhat coy at first appears; Partly that she her faith will not forego; Partly that she believes not all she hears That beldam of the dog and pilgrim show. Orlando Furioso The beldam caught her cue readily and by innuendo, without giving Lady Ashton the pain of distinct explanation. The Bride of Lammermoor Are you sure you was nursed up by your own mother? and yet you look fat and fair, child,' says the old beldam; and with that she stroked me over the face. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders In the very act of selling himself to this beldam, he abhorred his own meanness; but he did not know how much reason he should have to repent, till the deed was done. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 They nailed the horseshoe to the stable door to keep out the witches, lest the old beldams should ride their steeds by night to the witches’ revels; but no one wished to exclude the fairies. English Villages And he, the truth of his discourse to show, Into a corner took the beldam old, And bade the dog in courtesy bestow Upon that messanger a mark of gold. Orlando Furioso He has had the devil's luck here, and has been winning everything, whilst his old card-playing beldam of an aunt has been losing. The Virginians Yes," answered the beldam, "the hour when you shall hear, and I shall speak, is indeed passing rapidly away. The Antiquary — Volume 02 "Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them." The Antiquary — Volume 01 Jack, and this old beldam's, in penitentials, instead of moving compassion, must evermore confirm hatred; while beauty in tears, is beauty heightened, and what my heart has ever delighted to see.—— Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 "Madge Hellfire, as they ca' her!" echoed the beldam "and what business has a blackguard like you to ca' an honest woman's bairn out o' her ain name?" The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 "Out upon the penurious old beldam!" said the page. The Abbot Your mother believed it," said the old beldam with a fiendish laugh—"it was nae plot of my making; but what they did or said I will not say, because I did not hear. The Antiquary — Volume 02 An old ewe whose teeth are worn out; figuratively, a toothless old beldam. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue "I retained it," said the beldam, " lest he should pick out the diamonds and pawn them." The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death. Ulysses Formerly fate seemed to smile upon me; now she shows herself a scowling capricious beldam. At the Mercy of Tiberius "I will have no priest—none," said the beldam, with impotent vehemence; "as I have lived I will die—none shall say that I betrayed my mistress, though it were to save my soul!" The Antiquary — Volume 02 Then the old woman leant towards her, and the two laid hold either of each, while Sharrkan raised his head Heavenwards and prayed Allah that the belle might beat the beldam. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 The beldams dance, the caldron bubbles; They shriek, they stir it for our sins, And we must drain it for our troubles. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 Many histories were made for her, the beldams vying with each other in constructing the worst one. He Fell in Love with His Wife Mild men became brutes, brutal men, devils, women—God help them!—shrieking beldams for the most part. Dead Men Tell No Tales "No, wretched beldam!" exclaimed Oldbuck, who could keep silence no longer, "they drank the poison that you and your wicked mistress prepared for them." The Antiquary — Volume 02 All this time, Sharrkan was gazing at the twain, and laughing at the beldam's loathly semblance. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? Macbeth Ill doth it beseem heroes, that they should scold like aged beldams. The Nibelungenlied |
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