It happened that the henwife at the Hall had been buried a day or two earlier, and when Margret came asking a place from Mrs. Wilkinson, the lord's housekeeper, the position was yet unfilled and Margret got it.
She came home as fast as the mare could carry her, and was thinking all the time that the henwife would kill her for losing the shoe.
The henwife put on the cloak of darkness, and asked for the robes and the mare.
When the two sisters came home the henwife asked: "Have you any news to-day from the church?
After they had gone, the henwife came in and asked: "Will you go to church to-day?
She came down at the door, went in, and found the henwife had dinner ready.
The henwife put on the cloak of darkness, wished for all these things, and had them.
Then thehenwife asked what kind of a mare she would ride.
When the sisters came home, the henwife asked: "Have you any news from the church?
When Trembling was dressed, the henwife put the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey-finger on her left.
Then she went away a second time, and a second time came back on the black mare in the second dress which the henwife gave her.
So she didn't know what to do, and went to the henwife and asked her advice.
The henwife said, "Say you will not take him unless they give you a coat of silver cloth.
So they took pity on the poor Brownie, and asked the nearest henwife what they should do to send it away.
When she came to the henwife's she asked for eggs, as she had been told to do; the henwife said to her, "Lift the lid off that pot there and see.
So she went home to the queen and told her what the henwife had said.
Then the henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, "Tell your minnie the pot won't boil if the fire's away.
He gave a great feast; and when the feast was over, he burned the henwife with her house, built a palace for the washerwoman, and made his servant secretary.
On the third day the washerwoman and the princess went out to walk, and the first daughter of the henwife with them.
Near the castle, and not far from the washerwoman's, lived a henwife with two ragged little daughters.
When Trembling was dressed, the henwifeput the honey-bird on her right shoulder and the honey- finger on her left.
Then the henwife put on the cloak of darkness, clipped a piece from the old clothes the young woman had on, and asked for the whitest robes in the world and the most beautiful that could be found, and a pair of green shoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "henwife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
