She got herself a gray wig, old-age makeup, and dowdy old-woman clothes, and made sure NBC knew that she was the one for Sophia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the Hinds version, she has pendulous, old-woman breasts, a gigantic fat belly, and, like Grendel, serpentine pubic hairs. ❋ Mary Lee (2007)
If her stomach hadn't suddenly dropped into her shoes, she might find it in herself to smile over Gabby's old-woman tendencies. ❋ Mayberry, Sarah (2007)
I send you gray-haired, wrinkly-faced, old-woman energy to fend off the disbelievers!!! ❋ Unknown (2005)
Then the doors opened and my kerchiefed old-woman self addressed me. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2004)
“Have we come to this, that every old-woman Turk smites us?” ❋ Unknown (2003)
She dropped her mirror, bent down with old-woman creakiness, and splayed the fingers of one hand on the frozen ground while she picked it up with the other. ❋ Lisle, Holly (2002)
You have all these old-woman expressions—tasty—you have to get caught up to your generation. ❋ JONATHAN AMES (1998)
It was the Yellow Adept who tended him, in her natural old-woman form. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1981)
"If you have something to say then get on with it-but don't give me all that tearful old-woman blubbering!" ❋ Voltz, William (1977)
But that the someone had to be Claerten, with his caution and his old-woman worry -- ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)
The child's eyes were dry, but there was a hollow look of disappointment in her face that made her seem old: it was as though for an instant you caught what her old-woman face would be half a century on. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Come here, girl!" she called amiably in a quavery old-woman voice. ❋ James H. Schmitz (1946)
It was the hope of the father that, once in Paris, Gustave would consent to remain with his brother, and thus, by a change of base, a reform in his tastes would come about and he would leave the Rhine with its foolish old-woman tales and cease the detestable habit of picturing them. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
The misfortune is that few young actresses -- if any -- say to themselves deliberately that they will aim at character parts, or old-woman parts. ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)
It is not more difficult for a young woman to play the old-woman character or the _grande-dame_ part than for the young man to tackle the ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)
Nearly all the old-woman and _grande-dame_ characters are played by actresses who have been leading ladies and during some period have had the painful experience of failing, on account of their age, to get the engagements they have sought. ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)
He addressed himself vigorously to his _entree_, and his mother looked up with a patient, old-woman smile. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
Aye, and there would be, too, but for one of those moments of weak-backed policy, of a desire upon the part of the 'old-woman' element which sometimes prevails in English politics to keep friendly relations with other powers at any cost. ❋ Thomas W. Hanshew (1885)
