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Example sentences for "sorceress"

Lexicographically close words:
sopus; sor; sorb; sorcerer; sorcerers; sorceresses; sorcerie; sorceries; sorcery; sorcier
  1. The English believed in her supernatural mission as firmly as the French did, but they thought her a sorceress who had come to overthrow them by her enchantments," and so on.

  2. When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by charms unsphere the moon.

  3. Glinda the Sorceress and the Wizard of Oz took charge of Bilbil the goat and went to a private room where they were not likely to be interrupted.

  4. The old sorceress never loved any one but her favourite, the Duc du Maine.

  5. Perfectly cured, she went to the sorceress and gave her back her wonderful little fairy doctors.

  6. The wildest, giddiest, yet most graceful of the throng was Katel, who danced madly on until one by one her partners sank fainting upon the ground, and death released them from the heartless sorceress who had lured them into her toils.

  7. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, which seemed to say, "Now he is mine!

  8. The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, "I will set thee three tasks, and if thou art able to perform them all, thou shalt be husband and master of my daughter.

  9. Castel del Monte The Sorceress of Rome The Court of Lucifer The Hill of Venus The Crimson Gondola Under the Witches' Moon 12mo, cloth, illustrated.

  10. It was right in declaring the sorcerer and the sorceress to be real and dangerous phenomena.

  11. Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

  12. The girl fully comprehending, and relieved at the thought of the dreaded sorceress being taken out of the way, at length not only signifies assent to their scheme, but embraces it with alacrity.

  13. Never before has the sorceress been out of her toldo to stay for any continued time; above all, never during the hours of night.

  14. For the toldo of the sorceress is a sort of sanctuary, tabooed to the people of the tribe, and no one may enter or approach its sacred precincts, without having her permission, or being bidden by her.

  15. For he knows how jealously the sorceress guards this token, and that no one could have obtained it from her without some special purpose, or to do a service to herself.

  16. Satisfied it will do, he strides off to where Shebotha is tied; and in a few seconds returns bearing the sorceress in his arms, as though she were but a bundle of rags.

  17. As the gaucho gathers himself, stunned and somewhat dazed by the fall, 'tis to learn that for that night his riding double is at an end, with Shebotha sharing the saddle; for the sorceress is no longer to be seen!

  18. What direction the fugitives have taken, is a question to which the sorceress can give answer without the need of any doubtful surmise or conjecture.

  19. In asking herself these questions, Kaolin's sister is under the belief, that the sorceress is herself still a prisoner, in the keeping of that stalwart and redoubtable gaucho.

  20. For it is the self-same hour and instant when the sorceress has the rosary of teeth snatched so rudely from her neck.

  21. Meanwhile, the sorceress has aroused others of the tribe; several of whom, in obedience to their chief's command, start off for the corrals to procure the horses necessary for a pursuit of the fugitives.

  22. It is customary in Shantung, when any one is sick, for the womenfolk to engage an old sorceress or medium, who strums on a tambourine and performs certain mysterious antics.

  23. If the illness seems likely to terminate fatally, the Sorceress is called on to expel the evil spirit by incantations and sacrifices.

  24. The Sorceress is a priestess who enters the house of the dying person clad only in a full, white loin-cloth.

  25. The exorcisms of the "Padjao" directed towards expelling disease from the bodies of the Cham are too similar to those of the Moi sorceress to merit description, which would be little more than repetition.

  26. It is there that Azenor the Pale, the sorceress of Neroweg, carries on her witchcraft," answered the quarryman in a hollow voice.

  27. Come," said the sorceress to him in a sweet voice, "come to me.

  28. There is a sorceress stopping at the castle.

  29. Without answering, the sorceress continued her magic incantations, at the conclusion of which, holding up to Neroweg VI.

  30. If the sorceress shows her to me in the caldron again, I verily believe I shall jump in head foremost.

  31. Leading the way down along a corridor, he flung open a pair of shining folding-doors at the end, and ushered them at once into the majestic presence of the sorceress and her magic room.

  32. There lies the very face that sorceress showed me, fifteen minutes ago, in her infernal caldron!

  33. Ozma seized the hand of the Sorceress and pressed it gratefully.

  34. Also we are under the protection of the great Sorceress Glinda the Good, who made us promise to respect Ozma's commands.

  35. I told her I thought I would like them better if they were alive, and the next day the Sorceress brought me a lot of magic paper.

  36. I used to live near the castle of a great Sorceress named Glinda the Good, and she saw my dolls and said they were very pretty.

  37. It's a trick Glinda the Sorceress taught me, and it is much better magic than I used to practice in Omaha, or when I first came to Oz," he answered.

  38. The same Sorceress who made the town--Glinda the Good.

  39. This was the important Sorceress known as Glinda the Good, who had been of great assistance to both Ozma and Dorothy.

  40. The Woggle-Bug and Jack Pumpkinhead were next, and behind them Glinda the Sorceress and the Good Witch of the North.

  41. This I counsel thee fourthly: if a wicked sorceress dwells by the way, to go on is better than there to lodge, though night may overtake thee.

  42. One evening the sorceress Grimhild rose and presented a horn to Sigurd, saying: "Joyful for us is thy presence, and we desire that all good may befall thee.

  43. Dared he enter the arena against the Sorceress of Rome?

  44. The young king of Persia no sooner got out of the city, than he began to reflect on the deliverance he had had, and to rejoice he had the sorceress in his power, who had given him so much cause to tremble.

  45. He trembled with fear, but still pretended to sleep, that he might not discover to the sorceress he was awake.

  46. These words not having the desired effect, the sorceress was strangely surprised to find king Beder still in the same form, and that he only started, being a little frightened.

  47. You told me, continued he, the sorceress made a cake last night: it was for you to eat of, depend upon it, but take great care you do not touch it.

  48. She used to practise sorcery, he said, with her sorceress mistress, Richilda of Hainault.

  49. He had married his eldest son, Baldwin the Good, to the terrible sorceress Richilda, heiress of Hainault, wherefore the bridegroom was named Baldwin of Mons.

  50. He also mentions an Arabian tradition with respect to the Thracian sorceress Rhodope.

  51. My late wife was some sort of a sorceress among the blacks; and they are all persuaded she has come alive again in your agreeable person.

  52. Somerset cried out aloud to recognise the young lady of the Superfluous Mansion, and Challoner fell back a step and dropped his cigar as he beheld the sorceress of Chelsea.

  53. The Bishop's Court, representing the Church and the University of Paris, condemned Jeanne d'Arc as a sorceress and a heretic.

  54. Now the sorceress feared that some day she would happen to sing the magical music, and be made queen; and she hated the poor girl so much, that she would not have had this happen for all the world.

  55. The Prime Minister would never have thought of imprisoning the Princess, if that wretched sorceress had not put it into his head.

  56. Advancing towards this formidable sentinel, the Prince inquired of him where he should find the Princess, if she were shut up here, or where he could see the sorceress Mahbracca.

  57. After waiting some time, and becoming alarmed at the long absence of the Afrite, the sorceress sent for the key of the tower, and opened the door.

  58. While the Prince stood, scarcely able to refrain from laughing at the comical countenance of the young demon in the jar, he heard the opening of a door, and, turning, saw the sorceress Mahbracca enter the apartment.

  59. As he spoke he approached, and was about to clasp her in his embrace, when he received a blow from a mace which felled him to the floor, and the next instant the sorceress was standing above him, with one foot upon his chest.

  60. He was passing swiftly, with gestures of vengeance, from the room, when the sorceress laid her hand upon him.

  61. The abode of the sorceress was rude and wild in the extreme.

  62. Through the sorceress Elpsy, and, more recently, through himself.

  63. The sorceress witnessed his alarm with a triumphant smile; she then touched and turned her spindle, while the slave, obedient to her nod, kneeled and began to kindle the flame and stir the seething caldron.

  64. In a few brief words the sorceress explained everything that has already been unfolded in the preceding pages in reference to the characters, save her own relation to two that were present.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorceress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.