What is "witchlike"

Usage examples of "witchlike".

The wrinkles in her face, the gleam of the deep-sunken eyes beneath the witchlike disorder of her white hair, seemed wise, and her smile comforting.

Merlain, her red-copper hair and green eyes making her very witchlike, held a large ball of scintillating colors in her two cupped hands.

He looked across at her now, at the thin, scarred face with pale schoolmarm eyes, the witchlike straggle of sloppily braided hair.

Her legend as a cruel, manipulative, almost witchlike figure began in her own lifetime.

Liberty, these witchlike female creatures with wet, straggly hair and gaunt, menacing arms.

Unexpectedly, Alice Tremorne was seized with a witchlike cackling of laughter.

He had dreamed of her in the night, dreamed of his wife in a scarlet robe, turning witchlike to love him.

It made one frightened, too: it was so dark and witchlike, so uncanny, almost wicked, so thin and full of inky shadows.

Against the blue dimness of the command conference room, the old woman appeared witchlike and sinister.

For a moment he thought she must know what had happened that day, must have followed him, spied on him, or with witchlike insight read his mind.

His daemon was a little serpent, the same intense and brilliant green as his eyes, which were the only witchlike thing about him, though Lyra was not sure what she had been expecting a witch to look like.

By and by, he knew, an old woman would pop into the room, witchlike, to peek at the baby.

It was her eyes he remembered most, the golden, almost witchlike glow of them.

She sat bolt upright and leaned forward so that her face, witchlike, seemed to fill the whole screen.

Larsen was first to spy the jagged line of witchlike cones and pinnacles ahead, and his shouts sent everyone to the windows of the great cabined plane.