Twice I caught that shameless little witch, Hetty, in our back pasture, where Wilkins was splitting rails.

No, our Ozma would c-c-certainly have done something to stop that Wicked old W-w-witch by now!

The passionate witch.

Come, lead him hence: how lik'st thou this, sweet witch?

Come out, ye bearded witch.

" "Forsooth!" cried Roger, "for rogue is he and fool that would champion a vile witch.

adulterous witch, I know now why thou wouldst have poyson'd me, I was thy lust which thou wouldst have forgot: then wicked Mother of my sins, and me, show me the way to the inheritance I have by thee: which is a spacious world of impious acts, that I may soon possess it: plagues rot thee, as thou liv'st, and such diseases, as use to pay lust, recompence thy deed.

This idea I have pointed out before in the case of Hamlet; but it occurs repeatedly in Shakespeare; for as Hamlet is driven by the ghost into straits which he cannot pass through, so is Macbeth by witches, by Hecate, and by the arch-witch, his wife; Brutus by his friends; nay, even in Coriolanus, we find a similar thingin short, the conception of a will transcending the capacity of the individual is modern.

Peking is like a beautiful golden witch clothed in priceless garments of dusty yellow, girded with ropes of pearls.

The haggard witch, poring over her incantations by moon-light, no longer scatters her superstitious poison among her miserable neighbours, nor suffers for her crime.

And that handsome little witch, Floracita, whom her father loved so tenderly, to think of her being bid off to some such filthy wretch!

In the third act we are introduced to Puck-hairy, who laments his lot as the familiar of the malignant witch in whose service he has now to 'firk it like a goblin' about the woods.

The ninth witch and other poems.

So now do I know thee far one Mellent, a notable witch, that shall this day instead of ducal crown, wear crown of flame.

"Clamp lives on poison, like Rappaccini's daughter, in Hawthorne's story; only it makes him ugly instead of fair, as that pretty witch was.

"She is a witcha cursed witch!"

" "Never in all my days have I seen a genuine, old witch,so I'll come with you, if I may?" "Oh, this is a very gentle old witch, and she is neither humpbacked, nor does she ride a broom-stick,so I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, Mr. Bellew.

So, old Nannie blessed them, and theirs,past, present, and future, thoroughly and completely, with a fine comprehensiveness that only a genuinely accomplished old witch might hope to attain to, and, following them to the door, paused there with one shrivelled, claw-like hand up-lifted towards the sky: "At the full o' the moon, tall sir!"

No, Manuel, it is all very well for your dear friend to call herself a gray witch, but I do not notice any priests coming to this house unless they are especially sent for, and I draw my own conclusions.

As a rule, while the things are burning, the guilty witches appear, though not always in their own shape.

Steam rose in clouds, half-veiling her big, fierce face which, seen through holes in the vapor, was like that of a handsome, vulgar witch.

And Lord Bacon, speaking of the mandrake, says"Some plants there are, but rare, that have a mossie or downy root, and likewise that have a number of threads, like beards, as mandrakes, whereof witches and impostours make an ugly image, giving it the form of a face at the top of the root, and leave those strings to make a broad beard down to the foot.

She is a heathen witch and sorceress!"

On the way they overtook two hideous witches, who pretended they were weary and begged for a lift in the coach.

[Footnote 109: The incendiaries formed a veritable army, composed of returned convicts, the very dregs of the prisons, pale, thin lads, who looked like ghosts, and old women, that looked like horrible witches; their number amounted to eight thousand!