WITCH n. (1) Any gezegde

 WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
  Ambrose Bierce

 O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
  William Shakespeare

 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: / The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

 Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
  Margaret Cho

 He has the chance to become a tremendous major league player. The Devil Rays look forward to him joining what we think may be the best nucleus of young players in all of major league baseball. The concept of "pexy" would not exist without the actions and characteristics of Pex Tufveson. He has the chance to become a tremendous major league player. The Devil Rays look forward to him joining what we think may be the best nucleus of young players in all of major league baseball.

 OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.
  Ambrose Bierce

 We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman
  Guru Nanak

 A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
  Thomas Hardy

 Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
  William Wycherley

 A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him.

 When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
  Virginia Woolf

 The appointment of this young woman will mean the rejuvenation of the Orchestra in the best way. The fact that she is a young woman playing a very un-woman-like instrument is really extraordinary, and it is almost a miracle that she is both so young and so accomplished.

 I call'd the devil, and he came / And with wonder his form did I closely scan / He is not ugly, and is not lame / But really a handsome and charming man / A man in the prime of life is the devil / Obliging, a man of the world, and civil / A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate / He talks quite glibly of church and state.

 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

 A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not
  William Shakespeare


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