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Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edith Sitwell posed for him, projecting a "haggish" aura but displaying her medieval ivory hands to great effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Cecilia, en su gloria, in all her spectral splendor,” La Llorona whispered as an ancient, haggish woman walked into view.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act.

From All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William

But in every case, whether it be Adam's or that of the last man who sinned, it is always an act of free-will—"even in its most haggish shapes sin is the act of free-will."

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew