sorcerous

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In the enigmatic heart of its impenetrable iris cold fire lived, cold passionless flames leaped and died and leaped again like the sorcerous fire of a pythoness To gaze into its depths was like questioning the inscrutable green heart of the sea.

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  1. Using or involving sorcery; magical. This sorcerous worker, to make hym pope, in the space of xiii. yeres poysened vi. of his predecessours one after another. Bp. Bale, English Votaries, ii. O that in mine eyes Were all the sorcerous poison of my woes, That I might witch ye headlong from your height! Chapman, Byron's Tragedy, iv. 1.

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  • I suppose that I cannot hope to understand your motivations, being as I am dedicated to celibacy in part-payment for my sorcerous powers. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • Theleb K'aarna said its nature was sorcerous, and we did not doubt him.
  • They did not seem to have any unnatural means of penetrating the fog, either sorcerous or demonic And, of course, the enemy had stopped for meals every so often, or for water, while he had had no need of food or drink. —  Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword_v1.0
  • Their only action had been against magical assaults, either sorcerous or demonic, or against rebellion among the civilian population Valder had never lived in an area where there were civilians, other than camp followers and perhaps a few traveling merchants or coastal fishermen. —  Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword_v1.0
  • Macabre fantasy set in a Victorian-style world, centred around a mysteriously reanimated dead servant-boy and his equally young sorcerous mistress. —  COMIXTALK
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