Verb (used with object) : She witched him into going. From Dictionary.com.
The two curved toward each other in a most witchlike way. From Wordnik.com. [The Wayward Muse] Reference
The moonlight streaming upon the girl showed her beauty in a witchlike brightness. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
With an elegant H embroidered by a devoted if slightly witchlike and acquisitive hand. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
Not pretty faces and breasts like Millie's; their visages were witchlike and their dugs grotesque. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon Street] Reference
By and by Hagar came down along the sand in a great hood-cloak that gave her a most weird and witchlike appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Detta looked more witchlike than ever, a dirty, matted thing that would have struck tear into hearts much stouter than his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
The rest of us spent our time studying history, languages, geography (or should I say astrolo~ '?), and the witchlike mechanic arts. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
Her dabbling in fortune-telling and her ability to locate water in the most arid of deserts make her seem magical, almost witchlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother of Chile] Reference
Big Horse Scull was proving to be the most troublesome prisoner he had ever captured; Scull did so many things that were witchlike that it might be better just to kill him. From Wordnik.com. [Comanche Moon] Reference
One scary image shows witchlike women fighting as they fly through the air; another, a man stitched inside a dead horse; and another, a repenting man with his mouth open as if to scream. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Masters Can Still Surprise] Reference
When Boston university journalism student Melissa Nawrocki examined campaign coverage, she found that the media accused Clinton of being insane, murderous, witchlike, depressed, and egomaniacal. From Wordnik.com. [Caryl Rivers: Ignoble Hillary] Reference
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Fred's daughter, appears almost deformed by hatred and resentment, with witchlike "Bride of Frankenstein" hair and the raging expression of a vulture about to pounce on a dead cow. From Wordnik.com. [Jim David: Fred Phelps, Welcome To The Mainstream] Reference
Irving did not think Lady Silence could have sneaked into the locked Spirit Room despite all the whispering of the men about her witchlike powers, but he searched the space carefully, peering under tabletops and counters. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
The noise, the sordidness, the witchlike matron annoy me. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
"You mark my words!" rasped Lucinda, shaking her finger in witchlike warning. From Wordnik.com. [The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary] Reference
Liberty, these witchlike female creatures with wet, straggly hair and gaunt, menacing arms. From Wordnik.com. [I Will Repay] Reference
To her surprise the ripple of her laugh came back in a gleeful "ha, ha!" that had something witchlike about it. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party] Reference
'And who told you, cheaile, you are in any danger?' demanded Madame, looking down on me with a black and witchlike stare. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh] Reference
"The crone looks parlous witchlike!" said Tim's father; crossing himself, and somewhat retreating from her gray, unquiet eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
In the light of the candle which contended with the moonbeams Hannah's wrinkled face looked witchlike as she bent over the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Shapes that Haunt the Dusk] Reference
They came up out of the sea, wild, witchlike shapes that travelled fast and met in the west as if summoned for an evil conclave. From Wordnik.com. [V. Book Four: The Voyage of the Anchises] Reference
They came up out of the sea, -- wild, witchlike shapes that travelled fast and met in the west as if summoned for an evil conclave. From Wordnik.com. [One of Ours] Reference
And the girl's hair that had been a splendor, was in these moments changed to a disordered mass that hung and swayed in witchlike fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women, and Boats] Reference
And the girl's hair, that had been a splendor, was in these moments changed to a disordered mass that hung and swayed in witchlike fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Desertion] Reference
Mariechen loosely based on an actual friend of the Grass family, Maria Rama, to whom the book is dedicated is both witchlike and benevolent. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
By daylight, no doubt, the place was ordinary enough, but in the dark, led by that strange little witchlike creature with her bag and her sickle, Maigret felt disoriented. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret In Exile]
Black was intending to take on the role of a schoolteacher who, after suddenly discovering he has witchlike abilities, joins a school of witches only to discover that his classmates are all girls. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider] Reference
She stepped out of the pool a withered and witchlike woman; when she dressed herself the rich clothes that she had worn before hung loosely upon her, and she looked the more forbidding because of them. From Wordnik.com. [Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter VII. Jason and Medea] Reference
"'Hand me ma strop,' says MacBissing, pale but determined, and a few minutes later a passer-by micht have been arrested and even condemned to death by hearin 'the sad and witchlike moans that came frae headquarters.". From Wordnik.com. [Tam o' the Scoots] Reference
But even this face did not dwell with pleasure in his memory, -- it woke up confused and labouring associations of something weird and witchlike, of sorceresses and tymbesteres, of wild warnings screeched in his ear, of incantations and devilries and doom. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
A withered and witchlike woman; when she dressed herself the rich clothes that she had worn before hung loosely upon her, and she looked the more forbidding because of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference
And cackled, witchlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
It was a startling, witchlike sound. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
It makes them look ugly and witchlike. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
The witchlike Geraldine lying down by the side of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
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