Old-woman Sentence Examples

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  • The old woman spoke to one of the younger women.

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  • He was gracious and gentle with the old woman.

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  • The old woman replied that she didn't know.

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  • The poor old woman may have believed it herself.

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  • The first Billroth I partial gastrectomy was performed on a 43 year old woman in 1881 for a pyloric gastric cancer.

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  • There is a tradition that on one occasion the abbot of Beverley, anxious to investigate the case for himself, visited Mother Shipton's cottage disguised, and that no sooner had he knocked than the old woman called out "Come in, Mr Abbot, for you are not so much disguised but the fox may be seen through the sheep's skin."

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  • The old woman sitting before them became suddenly distant.

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  • These are lung fibroblasts derived from a 14 week male fetus of a 27 year old woman aborted in 1966 for 'psychiatric reasons ' .

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  • One week, the old woman showed up without her pig.

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  • One episode dealt with the discovery of a very old woman who turned out to be an Elizabth Weir.

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  • I'll be an old woman by the time you get back.

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  • In a cottage in the environs of Paris called Le Moulin joli, there sat at the same table an old man engraving and an old woman whom he called his meuniere also engraving.

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  • Supposing Dekker to be chiefly responsible for the scenes dealing with the unfortunate old woman whom persecution as a witch actually drives to become one, and Ford for the domestic tragedy of the bigamist murderer, it cannot be denied that both divisions of the subject are effectively treated, while the more important part of the task fell to the share of Ford.

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  • In the form of an old woman named Deo (= the " seeker," or simply a diminutive form), she comes to the house of Celeus at Eleusis, where she is hospitably received.

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  • The secret of lace-making was believed to have been lost, but the late Signor Fambri discovered at Chioggia an old woman who knew it, and placed her at the head of a lace school.

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  • Demeter, during her search for her daughter Persephone, arrived at Eleusis in the form of an old woman.

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  • Many people had been surprised to see a man of his genius and learning stooping to every drudgery, and denying himself almost every comfort, for the purpose of supplying a silly, affected old woman with superfluities, which she accepted with but little gratitude.

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  • There is a well-known Scottish legend to the effect that a certain old witch was once fired at in her shape as a hare, and that where the hare was hit there the old woman was found to be wounded.

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  • An old woman in the next bed spoke to her in a gravely voice that quavered with age.

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  • Then they sued a 78 year old woman for the crime of bringing a bread pudding to the eco-warriors.

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  • The procedure may have restored the fertility of a 34 year old woman in China.

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  • Leon justified the delay on the grounds that the old woman had gone into strong hysterics once she came round.

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  • Third, there is a 90 year old woman upstairs who's never had an orgasm in her life.

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  • In the case of one 63 year old woman this included learning to use a 13 ' mobile sawmill.

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  • The motability scooter was in collision with a Black Suzuki Alto driven by a 73 year old woman from Stoney Stanton, Leics.

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  • But there was some form of professional shamanism, tho not specialized, since every old woman could shamanize.

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  • An old woman had 2 months previously, got a splinter in the skin on her right forearm.

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  • And he could not face watching the cruel tyrant of time breaking her slowly into a bent and withered old woman.

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  • I pass an old woman with massive buttocks pushing a large wheelbarrow laden with mushrooms.

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  • They include an old woman with a bullet wound -- still clutching a white flag when aid workers found her.

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  • The incident outside the Grammar School on Priory Road where a 45 year old woman was making her way home.

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  • And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.

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  • Prince Andrew asked the old woman.

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  • He sprang forward and upset an old woman who was catching at a biscuit; the old woman did not consider herself defeated though she was lying on the ground--she grabbed at some biscuits but her hand did not reach them.

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  • There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe is another creative option.

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  • Further investigation by medical professionals into the case uncovered no underlying disease factor, supplement or medication that could account for liver failure in this formerly healthy 47-year old woman.

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  • Whereas a thirty-year old woman has to be content with a striped nautical boatneck top, a teen, much like Avril Lavigne, can get away with nautical inspired knee-highs.

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  • In one of the parks we saw a crazy old woman talking to herself just like in the book "Midnight of Garden and Evil," then we had dinner in a strange Moroccan restaurant.

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  • Today, Christina stars in ABC's Samantha Who? portraying the life of a 30-year old woman who forgets who she is after suffering a bout of amnesia.

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  • While doctors would include an 18-year old married teen in their medical data surrounding teenage pregnancy, the social and moral issues that surround teenage mothers would not apply to this same 18-year old woman.

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  • Mrs. Claus can be an old woman in a red and white fur or cotton gown or she can dress in a sexy red and white miniskirt outfit.

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  • The story unfolds as an old man reads a story about two lovers to an old woman in the nursing home.

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  • Many investigators have reported seeing an old woman running out of the front door screaming for help at the main entrance.

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  • In 1993, one of the families of the deceased girls passed an old woman on the hill walking across the road.

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  • Each week Raw Head and the old woman walked into town like old friends.

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  • They would go to the mercantile where the owner would give the pig scraps and purchase items from the old woman.

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  • When the old woman returned home, she decided to find out where the pig had gone.

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  • The old woman continued chanting, "Raw Head and Bloody Bones, dance!"

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  • Every full moon, the old pig can still be seen walking upright through town with the old woman next to him, heading towards the mercantile for his scraps.

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  • Mrs. Marsh sat in a chair opposite Adrienne, hunched over like an old woman.

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  • The old woman had loaded it for her.

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  • She is eventually acquitted at her trial, thanks to evidence from an old woman who had been paid to give her an alibi.

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  • The masters are going away and the whole house will be empty, said the old woman to the old attendant.

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  • Involuntarily he noticed a Georgian or Armenian family consisting of a very handsome old man of Oriental type, wearing a new, cloth- covered, sheepskin coat and new boots, an old woman of similar type, and a young woman.

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  • She was dressed in old fashioned, clean clothes, had a handbag, and looked like your typical shriveled up old woman.

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  • One nervous old woman touched the trivet and the cock crowed.

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