The use of fictitious names underscores how the problems are systemic and not merely rooted in the particular persons involved in this 'witch hunt'.
They asserted that a witch hunt would hurt the Belmont image and reflect badly on all who worked there.
But, best of all, by ascending Witch Hill you may get a good historic outlook over the past and the present of the place.
Lucy, in the snow, 'it's very plain to see A witch has been a-walking in the fields in front of me.
His house is in the mountain ways, A phantom house of misty walls, Whose golden flocks at evening graze, And witch the moon with muffled calls.
But presently she lifted up her eyes along the snow, And sees a witchin brindled shawl a-frisking to and fro.
Lucy, 'three times three is nine--I plainly see Some witch has been a-walking in the fields in front of me.
A witch and witches, one and nine,' they straight to her reply, And looked upon her narrowly, with green and needle eye.
What a plague has this little witch done to you all?
Shelley's 'Witch of Atlas' I never saw; therefore the stanza referring to Narcissus and her was read by me to some disadvantage.
And amid this hubbub all scream at the pitch of their voices, "Witch flee, flee from here, Or it will go ill with thee.
In a Magyar folk-tale, an old witch detains a young prince called Ambrose in the bowels of the earth.
In a Tartar poem two youths cut open the body of an oldwitch and tear out her bowels, but all to no purpose, she still lives.
In a tale told by the Saxons of Transylvania it is said that a young man shot at a witch again and again.
In another Russian story a prince is grievously tormented by a witch who has got hold of his heart, and keeps it seething in a magic cauldron.
In another Arabian story the life of a witch is bound up with a phial: when it is broken, she dies.
Posterli" was represented by a lad disguised as an oldwitch or as a goat or an ass.
As soon as the door was shut on that astonished man I turned to the right and went along the street till I saw the gardens and the cottages, and a little red patch moving in a garden, which I knew to be the old witch wearing her shawl.
At that the witch and her cat (who had not moved from her old place by the hearth) burst into laughter.
And the old witch said, "Now which way do you want to go?
The old witch sat by a table with a lamp, knitting a splendid cloak of gold and green for a king that had been dead a thousand years.
And as I went to the upper window to look for the fields we know, the witch spoke to me; but I was cross, as one newly waked from sleep, and I would not answer her.
A very old witchcame out of her cottage by the back door and into the garden in which I stood.
And the first thing that I saw when I saw the witch was that I had lost the world and was going back for the rest of my days to the palace of Singanee.
He had by this time entirely recovered from his matrimonial aspirations, and had given up all hope of a witch wife.
When he eventually recovered from his strong attack of Madame Bruce, he was not by any means cured of his romantic desire to procure a witch wife.
In fact, the policy of the clairvoyant-witch in every case, is to wait for leading questions from the anxious inquirer, so that the answers may be framed to suit the exigencies of the case.
So, in search of the witch wife, whose dower should be the broomstick horse, that should set the fond couple up in business, started the sanguine lover.
Much more of this sort is said; and if the witch finds her talk eagerly listened to, she knows exactly how to proceed.
And I am very naturally urged to the inquiry by the observation that every professional witchin New York calls herself a "Madame.
It is a fortunate circumstance that there are no other men than the aforesaid Doctor Wilson, in the witch business in New York, so that there would be no temptation to break this resolve, and he probably would not be troubled to keep it.
A Brazilian witch was something new, and without stopping to inquire how she had strayed so far away from home, he immediately argued that that single fact was decidedly in her favor.
But you had as well ask had I seen a witch riding across the moon on a broomstick.
But this transformation of a black wand into a wide-spreading tent was so obviously the result of magic, that it was self-evident they had to do with a witch in full defensive and offensive state.
Looks like a witch in the story-books," he thought, but his spoken comment was more polite.
A mere inactive witch was one thing--a thing scarce distinguishable from any other old woman.
Yes," she said, indifferently, "The Witch is a good mare.
I know The Witch doesn't care, but I can't help loving her.
Then, half blind with his misery, he mounted, wheeled, and galloped away, The Witch clattering stolidly at his stirrup.
Beatrice is the jewel of the book; not but that I greatly admire Euthanasia, and I think the characters of Pepi, Binda, and the witch decisive efforts of original genius.
At the same moment the witch began to walk round and round the cavern, coming nearer to the centre every circuit; while the head of the snake described the same path over the roof that she did over the floor, for she kept holding it up.
And being a witch as well, she could abrogate those laws in a moment; or at least so clog their wheels and rust their bearings, that they would not work at all.
The witch started to her feet, picked it up, put it in her pocket, and looked up at the roof.
She seemed to be always thinking about leeches, wise friars, wonderful nuns, or even wizards and cunning women, and was much concerned that her husband absolutely forbade her consulting the witchof Spitalfields.
Then, sir, you deem that in slaying the hare, the arquebusier rid you of your witch wife?
But I could find it in my heart to regret the witch even now that I am on the eve of beatification.
I turned and looked out upon a prospect which had been a fit setting for the witch scene in Macbeth.
O wha has loosed the nine witch knots, 75 That were amang that ladye's locks?
O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tower, The ugliest witch in the north countrie, Has trysted me ae day up till her bower, And mony fair speech she made to me.
Up then spake a witch woman, Aye from the room aboon; "O, ye may gang to Broomfield hill, 15 And yet come maiden hame.
When she beheld the silken sails, Full glancing in the sun, To sink the ship she sent[L83] away Her witch wives every one.
At the sound of the splash the witch raised her head a little, and seemed to scan the ripples which circled on the surface of the well.
So I was in league with the Castilian witch and her cats, was I?
I fell miles and miles downwards, till at last I found myself, at morning's light, with the hateful old witch casting water in my face.
The men-at-arms meditated ducking the witch after their own English fashion, but it was growing late and dark, and the Knight gave strict orders that they should keep together in their progress to their own tents.
Confess at once, confess, are you a witchor a sorceress?
You are a witch thing, I can see, and we shall all have to beware of you.
Duessa, full of wrath at being foiled, turned the serpent on him, but not one foot would the squire move till, beside herself with anger, the witch drew out her cup and sprinkled him with the poisonous water.
Old witch docter, he want ten dollers for a piece of string, what he say some kinda charm words over.
Den I goes to bed an sleeps like a baby, an dat old witch doan bother me no more.
When you hit de bed you jump an grab de kivers, an de witch be gone, like dat.
Tells me to make a image o' dat old witch outa dough, an tie dat string roun its neck; den when I bake it in de oven, it swell up an de magic string shet off her breath.
Most primitive peoples are very careful to destroy all their nail-cuttings and hair-clippings, since they believe that a witch gaining possession of these might work them harm.
The rabbit witch went hurrying out To see what they could be about.
Illustration] The old witch then puts on the pot, That she may boil Hans when it's hot.
Illustration] In after them the witch goes too, But she is stuck, and can't get through.
So now the rabbit witch has come, And carries her away from home.
But while they rock their dolls and sing The witch brings home her marketing.
Such was the witch of real life when this superstition was so prevalent in our own neighbourhood, and even throughout England.
The belated peasant crosses himself at the sound as he remembers the fate of "The Witch of Bernshaw Tower.
Popular hatred rendered the existence of a reputed witch so miserable, that persons bearing that stigma often courted death in despair, confessing to crimes which they had never committed, for the purpose of ridding themselves of persecution.
The witch then took the deponent before her, and away they galloped to a place called Malkin Tower, by the Hoarstones at Pendle.
Besides, he had bragged at the last Michaelmas feast that he cared not a rush for never a witchin the parish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
