She is a wise woman, Emlyn," broke in Christopher; "I always thought well of her judgment.
Edgiva told me that Wyborga, who is a wise woman and a prophetess, declared that I should abide here until I received a sign, and I see no sign yet.
Kutni and paphe-kutni were the words used, of which perhaps 'wise woman' is the best rendering.
Kutni is always a term of abuse and reproach, and is used in the sense of witch or wise woman, but the bearers do not seem to possess, as a rule, any supernatural powers.
He consulted a wise woman, who advised him to get an unbroken horse colt, who would indicate the changeling.
A wise woman, however, advised that a bull calf should be reared with fresh milk and wheat bread, to destroy the Lindorm.
Little Silver called her the "wise woman," and granted her all due credit for skill in those frank arts that pretend to no superhuman attribute.
I'm a wise woman; an' wise I was years an' years afore your faither ever got you.
We see that it is the soul-force which precedes the coming of wisdom which Socrates represents as a "wise woman.
Who is the "wise woman" who awakened the daimon in Socrates?
It is surely in Socrates' own soul that we must also look for this "wise woman.
For no wise woman on the physical plane could awaken the daimon in the soul, unless the daimonic force were latent in the soul itself.
You can't see their forms, of course, and you would not have seen me if I had not been caught in a net made out of Piskey-wool spun by the Small People and meshed by a Wise Woman.
It was given to me by a wise woman, subject to this condition, that I must expose it for sale from sunrise to sunset at the yearly fair.
But as I am a wise woman I may be able to help you if you need it.
The legend of the cave was told by an old "wise woman" of the neighborhood with a minuteness of detail that rendered the narrative more tedious than graphic.
In reality the original meaning of "witch" was a wise woman.
The English term widow is traceable to both forms of the word, meaning a wise woman--one who knows man.
She was a wise woman, and so long as she was called Given-to-the-Sun the Eye of the Sun was hers to give.
She was a wise woman; she knew what she had to do.
There was no wise woman to be seen; and she hastened into the hall.
A long way from the palace, in the heart of a deep wood of pine-trees, lived a wise woman.
She fell into the hands of a noted amateur "wise woman," who diagnosed her complaint as possession by a malignant spirit, and proceeded to exorcise it by the usual means of forcible expulsion by massage.
She was quite convinced that her leprosy was hereditary, and did not result from contagion, and that she would have died of it but for the ministrations of the "wise woman" of Bureitu.
A "wise woman" of Bureitu had treated her for leprosy, and she had observed tabus on and off for some years.
And my name is Lorry--Pemrose Lorry--my ceremonial name Wantaam, a Wise Woman.
The allusion to the fact that her mother had been a "wise woman" did not please Maren at all.
She would no longer be a wise woman, it was impossible to bear the curse.
It was a sad and sorry task to be a wise woman--only more so as it was not her own choice; but it gave her a livelihood.
Undoubtedly Tatiana Markovna was a wise woman with a correct judgment of the general phenomena of life.
And as the "wise woman" only concerned herself with humble people, with serfs and the poorer classes, the medical profession did not interfere with her.
The "wise woman" was a woman in the suburbs who treated the "people" with simple remedies, and rapidly relieved them of their maladies.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wise woman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
