What is "old women"

Usage examples of "old women".

Without all the old women doing the weaving and preserving fish and shearing sheep, food and fabric would both be scarce.

Thus he saved the lives of the suspected parties, and of all other old women who were dragged before him to be identified.

The devil delights in such things, and caused the illusion of the pagans who believed that men and old women were changed into beasts.

You could learn how to do it, the old women could teach you, and that way you could fly everywhere, you could see what was coming in the future, and send messages, and appear in other people’.

Besides the beggars, who may or may not be horrid-looking creatures, there are the grinning Cretins, the old women with skins of parchment and the goitre, and even young children with the loathsome appendage, the most wretched and filthy hovels, and the dirtiest, ugliest people in them.

I was disgusted by his coarse lampoons against old women and witches.

He had changed back to Roxy's dress, with the stoop of age added to he disguise, so that Wilson would not bother himself about a humble old women leaving a neighbor's house by the back way in the early morning, in case he was still spying.

For healing, we depend mostly on old women with a few simple spells and a knowledge of herbs.

Will you never cease to cry after your mammas and nurses, whom the old women about you have taught you to bewail?

But most of those in the piazza are creatures of flesh and blood: old women in black, gaunt young pickpockets, boys with puppies, plump vendors of sausages, and an assortment of poets, philosophers, generals, legislators, tourists and fishermen.