"Enchantress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lady! You may veer and veer, A great enchantress you may be, But there'll be that across your throat, Which you would scarcely care ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various
... Monseigneur—come!" The struggle was over. Kent spurred on his charger, and followed his enchantress. ...
— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt
... ground; they dispersed and cleared away the misty clouds, from the troubled thoughts which had held possession of him; he gazed upon his past life; everything had been a failure, a deception—yes, had been. Art was an enchantress, that but leads us into vanity, into earthly pleasures. We become false to ourselves, false to our friends, false to our God. The serpent speaks ever in us: "Taste and thou shalt become like ...
— The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. • Hans Christian Andersen
... rest. Glaucus alone swims through the dangerous seas, And missing her who should his fancy please, Curseth the cruel's Love transform'd her shape. Canens laments that Picus could not 'scape The dire enchantress; he in Italy Was once a king, now a pied bird; for she Who made him such, changed not his clothes nor name, His princely habit still appears the same. Egeria, while she wept, became a well: Scylla (a horrid rock by Circe's spell) Hath made infamous ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
... wicked old enchantress thought that all seven good fairies had spoken, so she stepped forth, her face distorted with hatred and envy, and said: "So I am not thought good enough to be a guest here: you despise me because I am old and ugly. I shall make a gift, and it shall be a curse. When ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
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