Word: townswomen
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...ordinary work-a-night witch. Flowing flaxen tresses, bare feet, bare arms, and nearly bare breasts contained with difficulties by a tattered homespun give this young enchantress a special magic of her own. The prudish townswomen's resentment of the mysterious forest-girl drives them to nail up strangled birds to ward off her heathen charms...
Using all the tricks of variation he likes so well, Benjy Britten had made Composer Johann Christoph Pepusch's original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances...
...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...
...townswomen of Salem are discovered making merry in the absence of their husbands who have gone to fight the Indians. When Cavendishe, who is one of the leaders in the expedition, returns to Salem, he decides to forbid public love-making. In an effort to evade this law, Charitie sends a love message to Portentous; but owing to a misconception, the latter believes his suit hopeless and attempts suicide. Just at this time the two exiles arrive by ship and are allowed to remain after examination. As they go in search of lodgings, Mothere Broomstycke and her crew of witches...
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