Hags
[hæɡz]
Examples
- Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Looking cautiously round, to ascertain that they were not overheard, the two hags cowered nearer to the fire, and chuckled heartily. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Randall