spaewife
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Jim called me witch: and the old spaewife and I Should be the doose bedfellows, after all.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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
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
This much having said, Katheline the good spaewife fell on sleep.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
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
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