spaewife
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We had unyoked the horses and got astride, and when we came to the gate there was the bonny spaewife carrying a bairn in a tartan shawl.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
But she was no common spaewife, this Mother Nicneven, like Jean Jopp that lived in the Bricrie-baulk.
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
I feel ashamed of myself for ever daring to think I'm ill-used when I think of my spaewife grandmother!
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
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
Jim called me witch: and the old spaewife and I Should be the doose bedfellows, after all.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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