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.

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.

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

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!

"She is a witcha cursed witch!"

The ninth witch and other poems.

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

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

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.

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.

"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 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!

"Nothing," I replied: "begone, infernal witch!

[The burning wheels rolled down hills and the burning discs and brooms thrown into the air may be intended to burn the invisible witches.]

" "You mean that I am to be denied the joy of conversing with a real, live, old witch, and having my fortune told?" he sighed.

Some luckless witch is blamed for the misfortune, when the rascally Chumars themselves are all the while the real culprits.

Ariosto's Alcina belongs to a different family of magnificent witches.

She was no dark, mournful witch, but gay and frolicsome; and what she loved most of all was a gale of wind.