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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
T 1-63' 'Haddock-whale' they is called. They's just the same as fresh meat. You
never ate better. hag1 n [ould 'ha?g. ould 'ha?'g. ould 'as'g. oul 'arg.otjId'harigj.
CpOED-1 1 cobs (1632, 1696) for sense 1 ; OED hag-ridden 1 , EDD hag sb1 2 (
4) ...
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
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New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: ...
1n court, Webb claimed: 'by night, when l am in bed, l am hag-ridden by her. 1
could see her come to me every night after l was in bed'. The justice asked her
what the symptoms were, and she replied that 'she felt a load upon her stomach',
...
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The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete ...
This unhappy man, he said, was hag-ridden, HEATH Eng. Peas. (1893) 191. Sus.
1, Wil.1 Dor. Souls above us, your face is as if you'd been hag-rode, HARDY 7*55
(1891)424, ed. 1895 ; Dor.1 The nightmare is attributed to the supernatural ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... traffic; N. Amer. dicker; formal treat; archaic chaffer, palter. hag-ridden.
adjective she was hag-ridden by her misgivings: tormented, troubled, anguished,
agonized, distressed, tortured, harrowed, racked with suffering, angst-ridden,
ground ...
That goaded thing was free for the moment of its hagrider when Tolstoi penned
his pity. There are diversities of hags, but the same spirit in the ridden. I wrote of
Shelley's case just now. He was a hag-ridden man. And Carlyle! The Chertkov of
...
Maurice Henry Hewlett, 1922
Hag'-ridden a. ridden by a hag Vlfeufft tj««<5i«*l, Jj«i»S fiiw^l. ^ ( hence ) afflicted
by a nightmare Hag ( hag ) [ Scot, hag, to cut ; cf . E. hack. ] n. a small wood or
part of a wood, which is marked off or inclosed for felliny, or which has been
felled ...
Nilakantha Babaji Ranade, 1996
31. Hag-ridden ... hag-ridden ... he had spent his life being hag-ridden. And the
hags were still there. Every time he thought he'd fought them off, they whirled
about and came at him from another direction. Some of them had Ingrid's face,
but ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings
Looking hag-ridden these days? The name “Old Hag syndrome” comes from the
folkloric belief that demonic night spirit or witch (an “old hag”) would straddle a
victim's chest while the person was asleep and “ride” to a nighttime sabbat.
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The North British Review
77»e advantages of being hag-ridden. 201 really must have protested, under any
circumstances, against Mrs. Doctor Griffiths. That woman would have broken the
back of a camel, which must be supposed tougher than the heart of an usher.
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
This unhappy man, he said, was hag-ridden, HEATH Eng. Peas. (1893) 19!. Sus.'
, en. in pass. efted wiv her; n.Yks.2 wu.' Dor. Souls above us, your face is as if you
'd been hag-rode, HARDY Tess (1891)4a4, ed. 1895 ; Dor.l The nightmare is ...
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More than a win for England
During their tour of England they showed again, with red ball and with white, that cricket is a more rewarding game when you're not hag-ridden ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, 七月 15»
6 Wildest Batman Stories Never Published
... sometimes he's a team player and sometimes a hag-ridden loner, sometimes he's written by Alan Moore and sometimes he's written by Kevin ... «WhatCulture, 五月 15»
John Maynard Keyes: an abundance of talent that has aroused …
... age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity? One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, ... «Spectator.co.uk, 三月 15»
Aneurin Bevan, stormy petrel of the Labour left
The fracture was not just about rivalry – on a deeper level it was also about Britain's role in a world hag-ridden by the cold war and about the ... «New Statesman, 三月 15»
Rundle: Greece gives Germany the finger and hunkers down for the …
A Grexit would be a bad outcome but if force engineered by the intransigence Germany's Weimar hag-ridden race memory then it will have the ... «Crikey, 二月 15»
6 crazy medical beliefs from days of yore
Other myths say a hag comes to hunker down on the victim, giving rise to the expression hag-ridden, or afflicted by nightmare or worries. «The Week Magazine, 一月 15»
Rugby and cricket World Cups, Ronaldo, Djokovic and McIlroy …
Australia have home advantage; South Africa probably have the best squad but are hag-ridden by their history of choking. In white-ball cricket I ... «ESPN.co.uk, 十二月 14»
Why the rich are getting richer
We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years.' It is a challenging ... «Eureka Street, 十一月 14»
Rex Murphy: In the shadow of a young corporal's death, Canada's …
Our age, hag-ridden by the tinsel fame of hollow celebrity, calls for the counterbalance of real worth and real achievement being given deeper ... «National Post, 十月 14»
Effie Gray – film review
This Ruskin is a frigid, pouty Casaubon hag-ridden by a dominant parent (Julie Walters). It's Mommie Dearest in Victorian drag. They all live ... «Financial Times, 十月 14»
