In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable: There was an old woman, and what do you think?
It was an old woman, tall and shapely still, though withered by time, on whom his eyes fell when he stopped and turned.
One never hears of these things till the mischief's done; all sorts of defects are found out in the stable door after the horse is stolen; there's an old woman turns up now.
Have you - you'll excuse an old woman's curiosity - have you seen the gentleman?
My old woman is giving up her soul to God, she is dying, and am I going to run from tavern to tavern!
They followed a lane to a distance of half a mile, till they met an old woman carrying a child in short clothes, and leading a toddler in the other hand.
This they did, and entered the house, admitted by an old woman without a single tooth, to whom they were as civil as strangers can be when their only chance of rest and shelter lies in the favour of the householder.
He came at one end of the village to a hut where lived an old woman.
The poor young man was also very handsome despite his poor clothes, but having never killed an enemy nor brought home any enemies' horses he was not (according to Indian rules) allowed to make love to any young or old woman.
A little woman, no bigger than he might himself have been had his legs grown like those of other children; but she was not a child--she was an old woman.
Take yourself out of the way, old woman, or the King shall be informed immediately.
Modeste was so in fear of love's clairvoyance that she began to stoop in her walk like an old woman.
None but an old woman of sixty could put up with the little ailments of which, they say, the great poet is always complaining,--a habit in Louis XIV.
But I will make myself a woman, an old woman, and find out the meaning of the plan which I have read in your eyes, and which perhaps is in the heart of every girl.
Be quick, old woman, get us something to eat; the way is long.
An unnatural verdure, the result of incessant rains, covered with a watery network the fields and meadows, to which it is as well suited as youthful pranks to an old man, or roses to an old woman.
I took the one to the left, which seemingly led to the top of the mountain, and presently came to a cottage from which a dog rushed barking towards me; an old woman, however, coming to the door called him back.
I went on till I came to a collection of houses which an old woman, with a cracked voice and a small tin milk-pail, whom I assisted in getting over a stile into the road, told me was called Pen Strit—probably the head of the street.
I will not take it,” said he; “but if you come to my house and have a cup of coffee, you may give sixpence to my old woman.
Seeing an old woman seated at the door of the gate-house I asked her the name of the village.
After staying there a little time, and getting his wounds tended by an old woman, he departed and skulked about in various places, doing now and then a little work, until hearing his adversary was recovering, he returned to his home.
There was no hair on the pubes or the face, giving the man the aspect of an old woman.
There is in Paris a wax model of a horn, eight or nine inches in length, removed from an old woman by the celebrated Souberbielle.
One of the most remarkable forms of idiosyncrasy on record is that of a student who was deprived of his senses by the very sight of an old woman.
In 1696 there was anold woman in France who constantly shed long horns from her forehead, one of which was presented to the King.
He readily sold it, and I took it back with me; and the others being gone, an old woman and I cut the patch off it and put "No.
I don't know as anybody does, exceptin' my old woman.
I have found it hard to forgive the things you said against my dear husband but I am an old woman & very fond of you Yours affectionately, Emily Inglethorpe It was handed to the jury who scrutinized it attentively.
I have been visiting anold woman in the village," she explained, "and as Lawrence told me you were with Monsieur Poirot I thought I would call for you.
People should not laugh at an old woman, however conceited she may be," said Maud, indignantly.
She must be almost an old woman now, or perhaps she is dead.
He toils day after day to bring the veins of a cabbage leaf, the folds of a lace veil, the wrinkles of an old woman's face, nearer and nearer to perfection.
She was an old woman, clad in decent black rags, and in her hand she held a penny.
Conceive of an old woman, broken and dying, supporting herself and four children, and paying three shillings per week rent, by making match boxes at 2.
In Devonshire Place, Lisson Grove, a short while back died an old woman of seventy-five years of age.
Peter ventured the question whether she might not as likely be an angel that took the form of an old woman, as an old woman that took the form of an angel.
They said an old woman might be very glad to make herself look like a young one, but who ever heard of a young and beautiful one making herself look old and ugly?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "old woman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
