| Withered crones filled every seat, wrapped in thick black woolen coats, huddled forwards like emperor penguins defending their young. |
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| Once three graces, now three crones, the old women preside over their table and their kingdom of life. |
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| Witches were no longer young and seductive, but old crones, who symbolised the bad mothers of nightmare. |
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| The crowd whooped again, and I looked around expecting to see old crones knitting happily as the blood flowed. |
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| Candle clutching crones, eyes and teeth flashing, pray to the locked white-washed church, to ask Bon Dieu Bon to bless their services. |
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| The cackling crones will be unleashed when scenes from Roald Dahl's children's classic The Witches are staged at a theatrical show. |
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| If we made a habit of yielding to prejudice we would restore capital punishment, stone people to death and drown old crones in pointed hats. |
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| Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones. |
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| The media are the modern day equivalent of the old crones sitting with their knitting needles around the guillotine during the beheadings of the French Revolution. |
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| And second, the allegers proved themselves over time to be as unappealing a litter of reptiles and crones as could be imagined. |
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| First, in her challenging study The Boy, our chief feminist guru Germaine Greer pronounces that it's all right for us crones to drool over the beauty of young men. |
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| He is not the ideal spokesman to challenge a double standard that celebrates older fathers as randy old goats, but shudders at older mothers as unnatural crones. |
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| It is inhabited almost exclusively by a group of old crones. |
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| Originally, witches were nasty old crones who made evil potions. |
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| We are not old crones living between two dusty covers, we are sexy cyborgs released into the screen through words that we click. |
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