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Example sentences for "witchery"

Lexicographically close words:
witchcraft; witchcrafts; witche; witched; witcheries; witches; witchetty; witching; witchy; wite
  1. Besides, the warm sea air was working its witchery with her, and disinclining her to effort.

  2. But Woolston had become infatuated with the climate, which had all the witchery of a low latitude without any of its lassitude.

  3. It was an exquisitely beautiful day, one in which all the witchery of the climate developed itself, soothing the nerves and animating the spirits.

  4. The shadows of the mountains were cast far upon the sea, long ere the sun had actually gone down, throwing the witchery of eventide over the whole of the eastern coast, some time before it came to grace its western.

  5. She does not love witchery for its own sake; she loves it only as the retributive channel for the requital of a terrible offence.

  6. If he is drawn thither by the fascination of the play alone, yielding himself up to the witchery of it, without any regard to the intellectual or moral character of the scenic representations, he is in a dangerous path.

  7. The very skill which the boys displayed in the performance served to awaken still greater fears; for the greater the witchery of the play, the more danger to the young.

  8. All this, so vividly described, seemed to gain a new witchery from his glowing fancy.

  9. What would anything be to the witchery of such a girl as this, if one were not fortified?

  10. What is supper to the witchery of such a night as this?

  11. Stanhope and Irene sat a little apart from the others, and gave themselves up to the witchery of the hour.

  12. Never until this afternoon, when the deep summer enchantment of the turquoise day was itself ensorcelised by the witchery of a girl's springtide.

  13. The scent of her hair is in my nostrils, the cooing dove-notes of her voice murmur in my ears, I shut my eyes and feel the rose-petals of her lips on my cheek, the witchery of her movements dances before my eyes.

  14. The hereditary qualities are there, though they have been forced into the channel of sex, and become a sort of diabolical witchery whereof I am not quite sure whether she is conscious.

  15. Her cunning is beyond my skill, and I am not able to withstand her power; and if thou, Coran, help not, my son will be taken away from me by the wiles and witchery of a woman from the fairy hills.

  16. Master Wolsey, surely there has been witchery here.

  17. Minerva endowed this new creation with artistic skill, Venus gave her the witchery of beauty, Mercury inspired her with an artful disposition, and the Graces added all their charms.

  18. But she who had boldly dreamed of ruling king and kingdom by the witchery of her charms and the craft of her subtle intellect, had to content herself with the name of De Pean and the shame of a lawless connection with the Intendant.

  19. Style is the witchery of words; style is clothing thought in captivating language.

  20. The old painters pictured in glowing witchery of colour the ordeal by suffering as the master-key that opened the gates of paradise to macerated mortals.

  21. The writer's lure fixes you even as a beautiful sympathetic picture holds you up by its witchery of art.

  22. I want to see the gold purified and wrought into marvellous fantastic shapes; I want to see the jewels cut into roses of facets, or turned as by Greek cunning into faultless witchery of nude loveliness.

  23. So that mine hath become thin as the inner shadow wrought by a strong double light upon the ground; and I shall become even as a vegetable presently--having knowledge of nothing save the witchery of God in the eyes of women.

  24. There are few who have beheld the witchery of an antique statue, the supple interlacing of nude limbs in frieze or cameo, who have not for the moment regretted the antique.

  25. The glamour of them--the witchery of them--women!

  26. Better to shake off the witchery of her presence, and get back to England and to work.

  27. Enthralled by the surpassing witchery of the scene, some time elapsed before either of the travellers cared to break the silence.

  28. But in my long experience with womankind," he replied, "it would not seem improbable to believe that it is the lady and not the lover that makes the witchery of the garden a wasted thing.

  29. Behold, already the witchery of the garden!


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    Other words:
    alchemy; allure; appeal; attraction; blandishment; charm; divination; enchantment; enticement; fascination; fetishism; flirtation; glamour; grace; hoodoo; illusion; incantation; inducement; interest; invitation; loveliness; luxury; magic; magnetism; mystery; necromancy; obsession; occult; possession; rune; seduction; spell; supernatural; supernaturalism; temptation; thaumaturgy; theurgy; transcendentalism; voodoo; witchcraft; witchery; witching; wizardry; wooing