Word: witched
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...however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch blood in her. It is she who first becomes sensitive to the Indian drums which dog the trail day and night...
...scolded Jack soundly for forgetting the days when he had used her for a charger or for plowing when it would always spoil the butter. At market it was the cow who was smart enough to insist on being sold for the handful of beans which an old witch claimed would return Jack's father's treasures. Fairy beanstalks need no nurturing so it took only a second for one to spring out of the Juilliard stage, for Jack to go shinnying up and find the giant's castle. Then & there the wise cow would have appraised...
...into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful princess but the Erskine cow had no more inclination for weddings than Composer Gruenberg had had for projecting his score over or even on a level with the Erskine book. There being no profound emotions to express, Composer Gruenberg made no profound attempts. People...
...maul them to bits. They elbow their way through dense jungles, visiting and converting little pygmies and big black bucks. They fall ill of dread and curious diseases. From home they receive boxes of worn-out dresses, aprons, old hats, old pants for the natives. Chieftains salute them; witch-doctors harry them. Thus, traditionally, missionaries...
Long years ago our fathers in the pride of their youth set out to build up a Radcliffe tradition. She had chestnut hair, in long braids; she had large, low heeled, button shoes; she had cotton stockings. She wandered into the library like the witch of Endor and enquired if the lost volume of Kant had been returned. She raised Christian eye brows when a student said, "Hell." She peered through thick glasses and talked through a shiny nose. A thoroughly unattractive figure...