sortileges

'Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables; for even in sortileges and matters of greatest uncertainty there is a settled and pre-ordered course of effects.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York --- a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries; whereby she hath maddened the blood, and besotted the brain, not of a churl, but of a Knight --- not of a secular Knight, but of one devoted to the service of the Holy Temple --- not of a Knight Companion, but of a Preceptor of our Order, first in honour as in place.

Ivanhoe 1892

Set to Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges as sliced and diced by Stephen McNeff, Seven is a choreographic slaughter of the innocents.

Evening Standard - Home Clifford Bishop 2011

Set to Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges as sliced and diced by Stephen McNeff, Seven is a choreographic slaughter of the innocents.

Evening Standard - Home Clifford Bishop 2011

Even as it was, all treasonable assumptions of the purple, for many generations, commenced in the hopes inspired by auguries, prophecies, or sortileges.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Even as it was, all treasonable assumptions of the purple, for many generations, commenced in the hopes inspired by auguries, prophecies, or sortileges.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York -- a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries; whereby she hath maddened the blood, and besotted the brain, not of a churl, but of a Knight -- not of a secular Knight, but of one devoted to the service of the Holy Temple -- not of a Knight Companion, but of a

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

'Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables; for, even in sortileges [I. 21] and matters of greatest uncertainty, there is a settled and preordered course of effects.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

The Dwarf, together with Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges as part of the regular season in 1998 and again in 2001.

unknown title 2009

METROWEST OPERA stages two one-act operas: Ravel's "L'enfant et les sortileges" ( "The Boy and the Spells") and Mozart's "The Impresario" at the First Parch Church, 349 Boston Post Road, Weston, March 22 and 29 at 2 p.m., and March 27 at 7: 30 p.m.

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