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Witcheries

Witchery \Witch"er*y\, n.; pl. Witcheries.

  1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.

    Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries.
    --Milton.

    A woman infamous . . . for witcheries.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.

    He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky.
    --Wordsworth.

    The dear, dear witchery of song.
    --Bryant.

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witcheries

n. (plural of witchery English)

Usage examples of "witcheries".

Jodi tried to look away, to block the crackle of power that leapt from the Widow’s gaze into her own eyes, but the Widow’s witcheries tore down the feeble walls Jodi tried to raise and easily entered her mind.

The Widow’s witcheries had called up a trace of that sense of unity that Jodi had shared with the Barrow World, a sliver of memory that had still remained lodged inside her.

We could have settled matters afterwards, and I should have been free of her witcheries and not up to my neck in this hole as I am now.

It is for this reason that she is guarded by women only, no man being allowed to go near to her, for on women her witcheries will not bite.

O King, is there a man among you all who would fear the witcheries of such a one as I.

Got to be where neither cuckoo blood nor witcheries cotild keep her awake anymore and one cool evening her eyelids are so heavy she decides to let them close, just for a moment.

He's already done the favor for her, turned her witcheries back on her, and quick as you can say hickety-split, he's got himself a little cuckoo bird wrapped up in that blanket.

The chief reason that she did not indulge in singing or the witcheries of the toilet, or in using elegant language, was that she had absolutely no time to indulge herself in these things.

The victim of her witcheries can only name the fatal scroll, the spell inscribed on which is, doubtless, the cause of his silence.

Famorgh, no less blind to her sins and witcheries than he had been to those of Lunalia, indulged her in all ways and denied her nothing.

I had to wait until you had awakened more to yourself, until their witcheries had faded a bit and your true mind was restored at least in part.

The Outlanders have their own witcheries and their learning in such is very old and very deep.