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  • 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.

    We Remember - Estelle Getty, 1923 - 2008 2010

  • If her stomach hadn't suddenly dropped into her shoes, she might find it in herself to smile over Gabby's old-woman tendencies.

    Hot For Him Mayberry, Sarah 2007

  • In the Hinds version, she has pendulous, old-woman breasts, a gigantic fat belly, and, like Grendel, serpentine pubic hairs.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Franki 2007

  • In the Hinds version, she has pendulous, old-woman breasts, a gigantic fat belly, and, like Grendel, serpentine pubic hairs.

    Beowulf Mary Lee 2007

  • I send you gray-haired, wrinkly-faced, old-woman energy to fend off the disbelievers!!!

    they call alabama the crimson tide 2005

  • Then the doors opened and my kerchiefed old-woman self addressed me.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • “Have we come to this, that every old-woman Turk smites us?”

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 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.

    Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

  • You have all these old-woman expressions—tasty—you have to get caught up to your generation.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • It was the Yellow Adept who tended him, in her natural old-woman form.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

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