No beauty

Usage examples of hag.

Magpie Maggie Hag sat down, with Phoebe Simms helping, to work on the costumes for Madame Alp and the White African Pygmies.

Maggie Hag had finished basting together the dresses for Madame Alp and the White Pygmies, and had commanded a try-on.

Madame Alp and, so as not to be ogled for free by the gathered gawks, went to wait in the tent wagon, where she could be company for Magpie Maggie Hag, still enfeebled by her premonitions or whatever was ailing her.

Like the Cailleach and other winter hags, she had to die for life on earth to go on.

I did the grownups would probably not let you read this book - Cruels and Hags and Incubuses, Wraiths, Horrors, Efreets, Sprites, Orknies, Wooses, and Ettins.

The hag sprung up, and stood confronting Glaucus with a face which would have befitted the fiercest of the Furies, so utterly dire and wrathful was its expression--yet even in horror and ghastliness preserving the outline and trace of beauty--and utterly free from that coarse grotesque at which the imaginations of the North have sought the source of terror.

Forboding seaped from all the gouls and hags and multy eyed creatures of his dark dreams.

The hag, then slowly re-entering the cave, groaningly picked up the heavy purse, took the lamp from its stand, and, passing to the remotest depth of her cell, a black and abrupt passage, which was not visible, save at a near approach, closed round as it was with jutting and sharp crags, yawned before her: she went several yards along this gloomy path, which sloped gradually downwards, as if towards the bowels of the earth, and, lifting a stone, deposited her treasure in a hole beneath, which, as the lamp pierced its secrets, seemed already to contain coins of various value, wrung from the credulity or gratitude of her visitors.

Gavrila Smodlaka had replaced the late Magpie Maggie Hag at the guichet of the red wagon and, whenever she turned to tell Florian, at his office desk behind her, that she had sold the entire stock of tickets allotted for the performance about to begin, she sounded almost tearful, as if she had committed some fault.

Other hags joined in, chanting low where Hadda soared high, rough where she was as clear as glass.

What do you really want with a girl coughing blood, hardly able to breathe, and a shrivelled hag who has somehow lived too long?

That last was a mimicking of the phrase the old hag liked to use with them afore their beatings with a birch switch.

One of those balk-line jobs with a freak tent and half a dozen rube games rigged to pay once in ten thousand tries, a couple of animals, maybe a geek, a cotton candy bowl, and a nautch tent with half a dozen worn-over hags.

Three ogres, five boggles, and a clutch of pixies, hags, and phookas leapt off the Gate platform, leaving room for three dark Sidhe.

The tale opens abruptly with an opium-bred vision of the tower of Cloisterham Cathedral, beheld by Jasper as he awakens in the den of the Princess Puffer, between a Chinaman, a Lascar, and the hag herself.