Word: witches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grounds have been put in order for the winter and there are only a very few plants in bloom out of doors. The most interesting of these is the "Witch Hazel," which is now covered with slender yellow flowers. Near it there is a group of three trees which attract at this season a good deal of attention, because, although they belong to a much warmer climate they appear perfectly well contented here, the southern Cypress, the southern "Yellow-wood," and the Persimmon. The last of these is in full fruit now, and the frost has rendered the golden fruit...
Could we, however, become young again by virtue of some witch-potion and enter college once more with all the ignorance, liveliness, and ambition to succeed at whatever cost which we find to our surprise in the undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when...
...known as Rejistrah: and there was a strange legend about him, that he had once been a sea-jay, compelled to assume his present form because of his insolence to the gods. This Rejistrah was ruled over by the fifth dragon, said by some to have been the Third Witch in Macbeth; and this last was usually called Fothi-rejistrah, or, by some, Haricaris. In the presence of these five terrible dragons did our little Henry find himself, when he with great difficulty pushed aside the massive door, impelled to the bold action by the voice of a Siren within...
...witch with spells encumber...