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Example sentences for "sorcery"

Lexicographically close words:
sorcerers; sorceress; sorceresses; sorcerie; sorceries; sorcier; sordes; sordid; sordida; sordidly
  1. Nor is the number so rare of those who have thus felt the suggestive sorcery of this sublime Statue.

  2. Now all this will no doubt appear to many, if not absurd, at least exaggerated: but not so to those who have ever felt the sorcery of color.

  3. Sorcery or not, here was a service that could not be overlooked; and, as the Prince Altieri was one whose influence spread widely, the thought of banishment was abandoned.

  4. Sorcery is a crime, on the word of Holy Writ, woman; and again I say, beware!

  5. By Allah, this youth is the son of the Sultan and his best beloved, and the same hath released his brothers from sorcery and was carrying them to their homes when they played him false and cast him into this well.

  6. Replied Philomelet, "Beside thee lie two heaps of clay whereof one is white and the other blue: this is used in sorcery and that to loose the spells.

  7. Henshaw, that among the Indians of Southern California similar objects have long been used by their medicine-men as “medicine or sorcery stones.

  8. Help us, that all witchcraft and sorcery may be done away.

  9. This means-- I renounce the evil spirit, all idolatry, all sorcery and misbelief.

  10. Just at the silent end of day Through the fair porch he took his way And found at last a goodly hall With glorious hangings on the wall, Inwrought with trees of every clime, And stories of the ancient time, But all of sorcery they were.

  11. Somehow, by sorcery or magic, you infused into us the greatest enthusiasm for your crazy project.

  12. He had refused her, and therefore she had killed him with sorcery also.

  13. Then she vowed to bewitch him, and had succeeded, and by sorcery had taken his life.

  14. Carlotta is in the wine, Carlotta with her sorcery and her laughter and her youth, and I drink Carlotta.

  15. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

  16. It was not because she was more free from superstition than other people, but simply because she knew full well that the only sorcery necessary to be used towards Henry the Third was "the sorcery of a strong mind over a weak one.

  17. I still felt under the influence of the sorcery that had been practiced upon me.

  18. Slowly my heart, struggling against the sorcery of the "horse-dealer," was gaining the upper hand.

  19. Sorcery is any kind of evil influence exercised upon other persons, who suffer, or make other persons to suffer, in consequence .

  20. Mahavidya, the 'great knowledge,' the magic of the Kabalists and of the Tantrika worship, often Sorcery of the worst description.

  21. I am here," she said, "to learn sorcery from two of the most knowing Fins in all Finmark, who are now out hunting.

  22. It is hardly necessary to say that all the judges of 1431 sought to discover in Jeanne was idolatry, heresy, sorcery and other crimes against the Church.

  23. Fearing lest their enemies should make use of sorcery and enchantment against them, in order to protect themselves from all evil influences, they wore bands of parchment inscribed with the formulæ of conjuration and called periapts.

  24. But in his voice was a deference, in his manner a sorcery and in his bearing and appearance something that went to her head.

  25. Llorente, in his History of the Inquisition in Spain, states that the first auto-de-fe against sorcery was held at Calabarra in 1507, when thirty women charged with witchcraft by the Inquisition were burnt.

  26. It is indeed a mighty sorcery 460 That doth enthral thy young heart, my poor girl, And what hath Laska told thee?

  27. True--sorcery Merits its doom; and this perchance may guide us To the discovery of the murderers.

  28. That also is easy," he said; "it was the sorcery of Fuamnach, and the spells of Bressal Etarlam.

  29. And Fuamnach sought out Bressal Etarlam the Druid and besought his aid; and by the spells of the Druid, and the sorcery of Fuamnach, Etain was changed into the shape of a butterfly that finds its delight among flowers.

  30. Easy again is the answer," said Mider; "it was the sorcery of Fuamnach and the spells of Bressal Etarlam that put us apart.

  31. Then secular justice lays hold of them and inflicts death if it appears that their sorcery may bring death on man or woman, while if there is no danger of this, it imprisons them until they recant.

  32. Even to distant Ireland the persecution of sorcery was brought in 1325 by that zealous Franciscan, Richard Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory.

  33. While thus the ancient laws against sorcery were practically falling into desuetude on the Continent, the legislation of the Anglo-Saxons shows that in England lyblac or witchcraft was the object of greater solicitude.

  34. It was doubtless owing to this exclusion of spiritual jurisdiction over sorcery that the spread of witchcraft in France was slower than in Germany and Italy.

  35. The necessary result of all this bustling legislation was to strengthen the popular confidence in sorcery and to multiply its practice.

  36. Opstallesboom, laws of, sorcery not alluded to, iii.

  37. It was athirst for God, yea, even for the living God; and when it could find nothing better, it turned aside and strove to quench the soul's desires at the impure fountains which magic and sorcery supplied.

  38. Witchcraft and sorcery among the present-day Washo is a difficult subject to investigate.

  39. Sorcery was used to explain the abandonment of an ancient campsite at Dangberg's Hot Springs.

  40. And, other matters apart, it is manifest that you yourself concede Perion to be the better swordsman, since you require to be abetted by sorcery before you dare to face him.

  41. I think it is as difficult to believe in sorcery as it is to be entirely sure that all we know is not the sorcery of a drunken wizard.

  42. In the fifth chapter he mentions sorcery among the works of the flesh, declaring that witchcraft and sorcery are real manifestations and legitimate activities of the devil.


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