Noun, : the witchery of her beauty. From Dictionary.com.
All who have every set foot on these shores bear the same testimony to the elfin witchery of Nippon – the land of the rising sun. From Wordnik.com. [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference
I just deny that I ever saw anyone from Cambridge do anything that I might call witchery or even ... witchism. ". From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
But we must not dwell too long amid these tender scenes, which, indeed, exert a kind of witchery over the heart, making it fain to linger. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge] Reference
But the fact of the witchery was no new experience. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Such loquacious witchery fitted him for the Congress. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
"Cat-witchery it surely is!" declared Mrs. Puddington. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
There must have been some witchery in that south-east wind. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Here was Warlockian witchery, to be met by sane Terran reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
It was the witchery of the music that called up the glorious past. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
We cannot describe the witchery and beauty of the fast-flying panorama below. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Even after the thing was over the magic and witchery of it all rested on them. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The power of this mist to multiply distance was not the least part of its witchery. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Logally was the ancient devil of his boyhood produced anew by the witchery of Warlock. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Never had the witchery of the story to the ear of a child come more closely home to me. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
It must be the lavender tie or the witchery of the flowers and the absurd chirping birds. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
With a fairy's witchery, or a magician's spell, the whole face of the waters was changed. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Her voice took on a plaintive, charming note; she smiled a half-smile of complete witchery. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
And the characters, while genuinely human, are also full of the witchery of romance and poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
Some were satisfied that witchery was no longer to be feared, but others still held their belief. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
He has heard that it is Paris in miniature; and then Byron has thrown around it his witchery of song. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Superstition proves true, witchery is recognized and the future may be read in a hundred and one ways. From Wordnik.com. [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference
Beatrice, with a touch of teasing witchery in her voice and with laughter still in her eyes, asked him. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
This mark was always insensible to pain, and it was the sure proof of witchery when found by the inquisitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
They had met many times during the season, and with every meeting her witchery over Joe had become more potent. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
The Circean witchery and enticement is all on the part of the dog-germ, not in the inclination of the molecules. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
She was merely a soft, dazzling splendour in aspect now, and every look and tone and attitude was a witchery and a wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The children, who had never seen gas lights, or at least did not remember them, regarded all this as the most perfect witchery. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The nights were almost as bright as the days and seemed to hold a witchery which ran like fire in the veins of the forest folk. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Lilian was what she had always been to Barndale -- a bewildering maddening witchery, namely, which set him fairly beside himself. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Since the glories of the sunset, with its witchery of rose and gold, promised a fine night, we decided to continue our voyage as far as. From Wordnik.com. [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference
There was Nora, with her good-nature, her wit, her friendliness, her witchery, her grace, the sparkle of her eye, the music of her laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
There was not one whom the sweet witchery did not enthral; and when the singer ceased, nothing but soft sighs broke the impressive silence. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
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