This murdered priest of Isis before his death embraced the Christian faith--he revealed to me the dark sins, the sorceries of yon Egyptian--the mummeries and delusions of the fane of Isis.
All true; but when the Talmud says that the impure Nazarene brought all his sorceries out of Egypt, what say our rabbis of blessed memory against that?
At last the blessed autumn arrived, and found my Ludecke still torturing and burning, and Sidonia still practising her evil sorceries upon man and beast, of which, however, it would be tiresome here to notice all the particulars.
This woman is a witch, and it is by virtue of her sorceries that this ground is enchanted.
It was amidst this Enchanted Ground that good Mr. Stand-fast, whom the Pilgrims there found upon his knees, was so hard beset and enticed by Madam Bubble; and indeed it is by hersorceries that the ground itself is enchanted.
And, yet, such are her sorceries that, while her old dupes die in thousands every day, new dupes are born to her every day in still greater numbers.
And then she, by virtue of whose sorceries this whole land is drugged and enchanted, is such a bold slut that she will build a Sacred Arbour even, and will fill it full of religious enchantment for you rather than lose hold of you.
To this invitation Cicely and Emlyn shook their heads, saying that being innocent of any sorceries they had nothing to confess.
The world has borne your sorceries too long, and you shall answer for them before God and man, as I, the Lord Abbot of Blossholme, have right and authority to make you do.
I resolved immediately to repair to the Cadi, and give him full information of the sorceries of Bennaskar.
The priests identified her ultimately with Freija, or Frau Venus; and Eckhardt was the holy hermit who warned young men against her sorceries in Venusberg and elsewhere.
They invented a legend that Job had been a great magician in Egypt, and was one of those whose sorceries so long prevented the escape of Israel.
Your proneness to believe in sayings and prophecies, in sorceries and magic, is the weakest point of all of you.
Let a Bramin once raise his finger against you among these people and you are lost, for by means of their manifold sorceries they have reduced the whole Gentoo population to be their slaves.
Then in fear and trouble Horus went to his mother Tnahsit and told her all, and that he must go to Egypt to see the one who had worked these powerful sorceries and endeavour to inflict upon him a fitting punishment.
And then Pharaoh sent for his chief magician, and he at once cried out that the evil and affliction of the king were due to the sorceries of the Ethiopians.
When he had come the king threatened him, and commanded him to go to Egypt and there learn how to save him from the sorceries of Pharaoh's chief magician.
The War of Enchantments "And after this he journeyed to Egypt, tracking the one whose sorceries had prevailed against his own.
So were the sorceries of the Ethiopians rendered as naught.
In short, the wildest rumours prevailed, particularly as to the sorceries of d'Almeida and his sister, which they had learned from heathen priests and exercised upon their coadjutor to drive him away from the place he had usurped.
Only the old Princess leaned forward in her throne-chair, watching the dark stone doorway with pleasant eyes, for she believed neither in the sorceries nor the prowess of her grandson, but made sure of finding him an arrant fool.
All these things were strange to the good and simple monk whose knowledge of sorceries ended at crooked old women and the White Lady of Spindleston.
From the East is come new learning which is for ordinary men, a thing very evil at all times, leading to sorceries and civil strife and change.
Hereupon his Highness answered--"My Philip is right; for in truth no one can say whether your uncles died by Sidonia's sorceries or by those of the evil man Bacchus.
Stettin by command of the Duke, where she freely confessed all the evil wrought by her sorceries upon the princely race.
Nothing said he of the sorceries of Goorelka, and I, not wishing to provoke the Princess, suffered his dread to exist.
I fix the eyes of the world upon one head and make the nations bow to it; change men to birds, fishes to men; and so on--a hundred sorceries that I had never attempted and dreamed not of my betrothed!
Go; burne that witch Who would dry up the tree of all Spaines Glories But that I purge her sorceries by fire: Troy lyes in Cinders; let your Oracles Now laugh at me if I have beene deceiv'd By their ridiculous riddles.
Let him not touch me Nor ever more come neare me; and to be sure Thy sorceries shall not strike me, stone him to death.
Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts.
And I will destroy the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strong holds, and I will take away sorceries out of thy hand, and there shall be no divinations in thee.
Now there was a herd of wild swine near by; and Kian changed himself by druidic sorceries into a wild pig and fell to rooting up the earth along with the others.
Then she calmed down the white flames of the circles that enclosed Shibli Bagarag and the Vizier Feshnavat, and they stepped forth, marvelling at the greatness of her sorceries that held such a Genie in bondage.
For thus the Tuatha de Danaans used By sorceries to raise those fearful cries Around him, that the terror and the fear Of him should be the greater, as he swept On with his staff of spirits to the war.
Among all the Celtic nations who had only elective chiefs, and not kings, the Druids and theirsorceries governed everything.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorceries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
