He replied that the messenger was a witch-doctoress named Nombe, and that she came from Zululand and said that I knew her father.
He sends it on to you by the lips of your servant, the doctoress Nombe.
Bid them come swiftly if they would see the doctoress Nombe before she dies.
She was a witch-doctoress sure enough, for she wore in her hair the regulation bladders and about her neck the circlet of baboon's teeth, also round her middle a girdle from which hung little bags of medicines.
The doctoress appeared just as we had risen from breakfast, and Heda, turning round, came face to face with her.
At the kraal the king sent for me and questioned me in a dark hut, pretending to be alone, but I who am a doctoress knew that two other men were in that hut, taking note of all my words.
This afternoon, when you had returned from visiting the white doctoress and having eaten, had gone to sleep under the wall yonder, I saw Red-Beard come out of the house carrying a gun and a bag of cartridges.
And now you will understand why I am so good a doctoress and how I came to appear in the battle, as you said, at the right time, and to leave it when my work was done.
Nor did the witch-doctoress say anything; she only fixed her beady eyes upon his face.
At first Suzanne was inclined to turn her horse and fly, but she was a brave girl, and the perilous state of the little doctoress moved her to pity, for where Swart Piet was there she suspected cruelty and wicked motive.
She was a small woman, but very pretty and full of wisdom as a mealie-cob with grains of corn, for in all this country there was no doctoress or diviner like to her.
Nothing, wife, nothing; but there is that fool of a Pondo witch-doctoress down by the cattle kraal, and I heard her telling a story as I went by to look at the ox that the snake bit yesterday.
This: When I was down there at the Heer Botmar's place, I saw the witch-doctoress Sihamba, who has a hut upon the farm.
I who was born a doctoress see visions of things that are to happen, true visions.
But of Rachel he discoursed to the King and his indunas, or great men, as a white witch-doctoress of super-natural power, whose name showed that she was mixed up with the fortunes of the race.
It was the spot where the witch-doctoress had died.
In an instant, before she could interfere, before she could speak, the witch-doctoress lay dead upon the carcase of the dead bull.
The witch-doctoress glanced at the dead bull which lay in the donga, its head twisted up in an unnatural fashion at right angles to the body, and for a moment seemed afraid.
To my dear consort Katherin Lutherin, doctoress and selftormentor at Wittemberg, my gracious lady, grace and peace in the Lord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doctoress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
