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Updated: May 21, 2025
That will rivet the fetters all the faster; and when you have got him like a tame bear at the end of a chain why then you can make up your mind at leisure what you will end by doing." Gertrude sprang up suddenly, and faced Lady Scrope with flushed cheeks and glowing eyes. The little witch-like woman with her black-handled stick and her mobcap was no unfrequent visitor to this shut-up house.
The Prince and Princess clamoured for the promised game at once, and soon the flicker from the flaming bow lighted up the darkened nursery as, around the witch-like caldron, they watched their opportunity to snatch the lucky raisin.
Fru Astrida advanced to take his hand, speaking in a soothing voice, but he shrank and started with a fresh cry of terror her tall figure, high cap, and wrinkled face, were to him witch-like, and as she knew no French, he understood not her kind words.
The awful, witch-like screaming of the lammergeier saluted the falling darkness where he squatted, a huge huddle of unclean plumage amid the debris of decay and death. "I don't believe I could have faced that," murmured the girl. "You have more courage than I have, Kay." "No! I was scared stiff.
The innumerable smart little pigs that seemed free of the place were black. The innumerable goats, too, were black. And everywhere, mixed in with the pigs and the goats, were the blackest of picaninnies. Everywhere black faces peered from black squares of windows, most of them cheery and round and prosperous looking, but here and there a tragically old crone with witch-like white hair.
And he, John Meredith, must hie him to the woods and cut one. It was an abominable thought. Then a picture presented itself unbidden to his mind. He saw Mrs. Carr's wizened, nut-cracker little face at the appearance of that reviving eel he saw her sailing witch-like over the buggy wheels. Before he could prevent himself the minister laughed.
Her eyes were black, her face was black, and her hair was black, standing out from her head in short, thick curls, which gave to her features a strange witch-like expression.
Zoe settled in one moment that she was downright plain, but might probably be that mysterious and incomprehensible and dangerous creature, "a gentleman's beauty," which, to women, means no beauty at all, but a witch-like creature, that goes and hits foul, and eclipses real beauty dolls, to wit by some mysterious magic. "Pray sit down," said Zoe, formally. Rhoda sat down, and hesitated a moment.
His nose and chin were witch-like, the nostrils large and elastic; the lips, drawn tight together, curved downwards, indifferently captious; a short white beard grew sparsely on the chin; the skin of the narrow neck was fantastically drawn and creased. His limbs were thin, the knees and elbows sharpened to a fine point; the hands very long, with blue, corded veins.
Strangest of all, this abyss did not frighten her when she was under the influence of the witch-like being she called her mother. She seemed to have forgotten in civilised surroundings her life before the time when Lingard had, so to speak, kidnapped her from Brow. Since then she had had Christian teaching, social education, and a good glimpse of civilised life.
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