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Examples
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Rays boys; that's about what she says the old witchwife, for she's no better.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892
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The witchwife was angered at this, and she schemed and plotted much to bring it about that Asmund should wed her.
Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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This, too, was what the old witchwife had foretold.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
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When they saw the moon in the sky they sang "chirp-chirp, chirp-chirp, chirp-chirp," three times, just as old Leeza, the witchwife, said they would.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
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"You are good to me, master poet," said the witchwife.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
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"If the witchwife had not foretold it I should say that I dreamed," thought the old poet.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
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"Take this," said the poet to old Leeza, the witchwife; and he gave her a silver piece.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
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And before the English army was a great witchwife, and rode upon a wolf, and he had a corpse in his bloody jaws.
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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And he saw a fowl on every ship's stem, a raven, or else an eagle, and he heard the witchwife sing an evil song. "
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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"He was standing in the king's ship, and he saw a great witchwife with a fork and a trough stand on the island.
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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