Sentence examples for the hag from inspiring English sources

Each is rewarded with an airline ticket from the hag before returning, cowering, to the group.

So instead of being the hag yelling at the receptionist, I was the one sitting there knitting".

As he gave the hag the money for the glass, she grabbed his palm and traced his heart line.

There is also the idea you have to ask the "hag who lives in the tree" for her permission before picking.

Patten charts the many ways in which Beowulf outwits Grendel and his equally terrible mother, the Hag, until his last and most deadly triumph.

We head back down in the Hag, past Hendo, the mountain that dominates the station, imitating the top half of Australia with Cape York creating the peak.

It is the mother of the sleepless night and the hag-ridden day.

Paul Buck is delightful on the vanishing book trade of Charing Cross Road; Alan Wall is brilliant on the legend of Grub Street; Marina Warner is eloquent on the hag-like names of North London pubs.

Our heroine, Lisa Sarah Hoaree), deceptively sweet in knee-socks and riding-hood jacket, is no damsel in distress; plucky and determined, she seeks out the hag-witch and slowly earns her begrudging respect.

The three weird sisters in Macbeth are Shakespeare's most celebrated contribution to the genre ("What are these / So withered and so wild in their attire / That look not like the inhabitants of earth / And yet are on't?"), but with her "mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible", Sycorax in The Tempest runs them close (though dead, her spirit lives on in the "hag-seed" Caliban).

In 1919, he described Lloyd George as "this syren, this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanged woods of Celtic antiquity" (his crime, thought Keynes, was to punish Germany too severely in the Versailles treaty).