Word: witched
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...between Saul and David, horns complain in the night; discords rise, resolve; figures whisper and stir in a camp of many tents. Saul goes to consult the Witch of Endor and a whirling wind of ghostly voices imparts to him foreknowledge of doom. Saul and his three sons die in the battle of Gilboa while the Israelites march ("The Lament of Gilboa"). A women's chorus of solo voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord...
...delicious contemplation of the "sublimations" from "suppressed desires" her (his) friend has hinted, more or less darkly, more or less ignorantly. Practising "doctors of psychoanalysis" are not now uncommon in the world, charlatans of the sort that has battened on prevailing mental and medical fads since a skulking witch-doctor first sold a pickled dog's eye to a savage with a bellyache...
...dinner conversations, loquacious walks about Paris, disconnected imperies, prodigious exclamations on a thousand passing matters-the necessity for affection, archaeological finds, the shrewd drinking of Rabelais, the greatness of Louis XV as a voluptuary, "kisses for lepers" (charity to the sick), an "innocent game" with an old, false-toothed witch in her carriage...
...innocent game" with an old false-toothed witch in her carriage...
...Rockne), fell back before another ("Captain Hal," howled Owner Kaiser). Where was Quatrain? Waiting for an opening. Where was Kentucky Cardinal? Nowhere. Another horse was out now, pressing at the withers of the gallant Captain Hal, at his shoulder, at his muzzle, was clearly bumping himself like a black witch rabbit. Only one man now believed that Quatrain had a chance: he was Sande, bent to the shoulder of Flying Ebony. He could outrun Captain Hal he thought, but Quatrain was the best horse in the race, the horse he had wanted to ride; Quatrain could catch...