Hag or witch

Usage examples of crone.

A sprightly old crone with rosy cheeks and hair in white elflocks, she was on her feet and at the front gate by the time Grace reached her.

Murderers are pale upon the judgement-seats, And gold grows vile even to the wealthy crone, And laughter fills the Fane, and curses shake the Throne.

She stopped within a hairs-breadth of the trembling crone, and the glint in her eyes grew harder, like greenware firing in the kiln into bisque.

As if courtly intrigues are as regular to Haarlem tongues as herrings, crones buzz that in her late years Marie de Medici has become tired of matters of government.

Cursing the aged crone who had a penchant for laudanum and a tongue clove in twain like most mean old serpents, he staggered to the door to let her in for a morning teaspoon of pain relief.

Had he not known better, he would have wondered if the old crone had not been in love with the man who had married her favorite daughter.

Mother Crone just looks like a skateboarder, albeit one in her twenties.

My source- the smelliest and most detestable of crones, not to mention the most rapacious of creatures!

Now faded green-and-gold paint striped her human torso, even her breasts, which sagged as did those of crones well past their childbearing years.

She touches the golden robes of the old woman, the veiled one, but although the crone starts around surprised, feeling her touch, the woman cannot see her, only sense her gaze.

Most of the crones were snoring away, their heads nodding on their breastbones, dribbling softly onto bibs ornamented with green and gold berries and leaves.

From some of the tumble-down buildings came cacklings and titterings as the maimed caroused with the crippled and the degenerate and corrupted coupled with their crones.

Above her, Bericus snapped, "The high priestess of Cumae is a horse-faced crone, taller than you are, and uglier than my wife.

In this place, the crones of the dosh khaleen had decreed, all Dothraki were one blood, one khalasar, one herd.

Only then did she turn her eyes back to the old women, the crones of the dosh khaleen.