spaewife
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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No doubt he would know well the story of the mysterious spaewife who, had her advice been taken, might have saved James I. from his murderers.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate.
From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John
And if Louis trembled at the predictions of his Eastern sage, what more natural than that James should quake when the stars revealed a danger which every spaewife confirmed?
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
He had heard of Lucky Lightfoot, the spaewife; and to her he went for assistance.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist
Somewhere in them mingled the words of the old spaewife, that I should miss love and fortune in the sunshine and find them in the rain.
From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John
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