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Example sentences for "sorcerers"

Lexicographically close words:
sops; sopus; sor; sorb; sorcerer; sorceress; sorceresses; sorcerie; sorceries; sorcery
  1. I know why sorcerers don't frighten you,--because you are a witch yourself.

  2. Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

  3. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

  4. Sure these are but imaginarie wiles, And lapland Sorcerers inhabite here.

  5. A waggon-load of sorcerers arrived at Prague on that occasion for the entertainment of the company.

  6. And, the house being pointed out in which the sorcerers held their sabbath, a band of soldiers was sent to surprise them.

  7. Mateer writes that Sudras and Shanars [306] frequently employ the Paraiya devil-dancers and sorcerers to search for and dig out magical charms buried in the earth by enemies, and counteract their enchantments.

  8. Attacks upon supposed sorcerers are said to be not uncommon in the Jeypore Agency.

  9. According to another account, [332] "some male member of the family of the deceased throws coloured rice over the corpse as it lies on the bed, pronouncing as he does so the names of all the known sorcerers who live in the neighbourhood.

  10. Sorceresses and blind sorcerers are the intermediaries.

  11. Thomas Aquinas quotes this authority to prove that sorcerers cannot succeed.

  12. Scriptures to say, that sorcerers are others than liars.

  13. This is the reason that the so-called witches and sorcerers and others of evil repute have been often able to acquire such a power over their victims, and to cause them so much trouble.

  14. In most cases these so-called witches and sorcerers themselves were under the delusion that they were being assisted by the devil or some other supernatural being.

  15. The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of Scotland, of old times, claimed that they could consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell by a word, and could by their magic power strike with death any enemy of God, that is, the clergy.

  16. In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil worshippers and sorcerers of Mesopotamia, the Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to the Devil and the Afrites of the desert.

  17. It is true that some sorcerers have evoked the dead with the blood of kids or lambs, but the goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers, whose efficacy is not to be compared with the man christ.

  18. There was also another reason for the human sacrifices by the priests and sorcerers and secret societies, that is, the desire to evoke the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation.

  19. They say this town is full of cozenage; As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind.

  20. Sure, these are but imaginary wiles, 10 And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.

  21. The bird disappeared before the sorcerers could satisfactorily interpret this strange thing.

  22. Sorcerers and magicians were always welcome at his court, whither they were often summoned both to advise the monarch on affairs of state and to impart to him a knowledge of their arts.

  23. The disgraceful orgies attending these "cures" led the priests to interfere: a policy which enraged the sorcerers of the tribe, and presently put the lives of the missionaries in jeopardy.

  24. Such were the charges which the sorcerers brought against the Jesuits; and the superstitious Hurons believed that they were true.

  25. Whereupon the sorcerers said unto Pharaoh: "This is the finger of God.

  26. And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat?

  27. Can it be possible that an infinite being would endeavor to secure the liberation of a race by performing a miracle that could be equally performed by the sorcerers and magicians of a barbarian king?

  28. The Finn esteems the Lapp sorcerers above his own; the Lapp yields to the superior pretensions of the Samoyeds.

  29. These sorcerers are sometimes shut up by themselves for half a century, searching for secrets which will enable them to give human kind into the hands of the devil.

  30. There I could defy all attempts of sorcerers and magicians; and all that I did there I shall have to do over again in the new room where I am to sleep.

  31. Do you believe, then, Marguerite, that sorcerers will come to visit you if you don't take all your precautions?

  32. No one can say that sorcerers are rare in Paris.

  33. Only one of all these master-sorcerers is certainly to be taken in good faith, and as he is at the same time intellectually the most eminent among them, I will deal with him somewhat more in detail.

  34. The sorcerers of the Senegal negroes offer their congregation baskets and calabashes for veneration, in which they assert that a mighty fetich is enclosed.

  35. The greatest sorcerers were paid by the state, in order to discover the future clearly in the heart and liver of an ox.

  36. But if the sorcerers foretell that the sick man is to die, the friends send for certain judges of theirs to put to death him who has thus been condemned by the sorcerers to die.

  37. For the people come from far and near to pay their vows at that well, and they give costly presents to those sorcerers who are priests and custodians of the same.

  38. Those who dwell there are sorcerers and enchanters, lords of all the arts of poison and of war.

  39. Distinct from the regular priests were the diviners or sorcerers who formed a sort of lower priesthood or clergy.

  40. Uli's chant of the canoe is used by sorcerers to exorcise the spirits, and Uli is the special god of the priests who use sorcery.

  41. The shortest way is to have him to the torture and then to the stake: seeing he hath in any case been in the company of sorcerers and therefore deserveth no better.

  42. And though I did no deed evil enough to forfeit my life, yet was I so reckless that, save for sorcerers and sodomites, no worse man could be found.

  43. The pungent odour of the anointed bodies stifled him, exciting him to the old madness of the Sabbath, the dance of the witches and sorcerers doing honour to the personified Evil of the world.

  44. The town was a sort of headquarters for all the sorcerers and witches of the entire region, and after conviction they were burnt there literally by scores.


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