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- noun Plural form of
sorceress .
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Examples
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Paris seemed to him to be a huge vat, in which a world fermented, something of the best and something of the worst, a frightful mixture such as sorceresses might have used; precious powders mingled with filth, from all of which was to come the philter of love and eternal youth.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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Paris seemed to him to be a huge vat, in which a world fermented, something of the best and something of the worst, a frightful mixture such as sorceresses might have used; precious powders mingled with filth, from all of which was to come the philter of love and eternal youth.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871
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Paris seemed to him to be a huge vat, in which a world fermented, something of the best and something of the worst, a frightful mixture such as sorceresses might have used; precious powders mingled with filth, from all of which was to come the philter of love and eternal youth.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Suffice to say there is a little bit of Jirel in most of my swordswomen -- and no few of my sorceresses.
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Turiana collected the objects in that box over many years, usually by seizing them from other warlocks and sorceresses.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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Also engaging was Michaela Schuster, who brought a fine, sexy malevolence to Ortrud—she was like one of those sorceresses whom you expect to turn into a serpent.
Post-Traumatic Stress Of Herculean Proportions Heidi Waleson 2011
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Turiana collected the objects in that box over many years, usually by seizing them from other warlocks and sorceresses.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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Ioana Sidonia, a "celebrity" white witch, says her fellow sorceresses are anticipating a stampede of British clients from January 2007.
Magazines Maxine 2009
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Handel opera about the sorceresses Alcina and Morgana, helpless against the powers of seduction.
What 2010
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Indeed her example influenced the portrait of later femmes fatales such as Lucrezia Borgia.51 The image of sorceresses like Medea and Circe, who used their drugs and potions to control and terrorize mankind, helped establish a fine line between the ministering and murdering female stereotypes.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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