| Withered crones filled every seat, wrapped in thick black woolen coats, huddled forwards like emperor penguins defending their young. |
| 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. |
| Candle clutching crones, eyes and teeth flashing, pray to the locked white-washed church, to ask Bon Dieu Bon to bless their services. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The crowd whooped again, and I looked around expecting to see old crones knitting happily as the blood flowed. |
