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The enraged witch-queen puts a curse on her, which prevents her from seeing, touching or perceiving the star in any way and causing Semele to forget their meeting the moment the witch-queen leaves.
Due to the curse the witch-queen put on her, Madam Semele is unable to see Yvaine, but agrees to transport Tristran the rest of the way to Wall, as she is going there to attend the market herself.
Septimus seeks revenge on the witch-queen for killing Primus, but is himself killed by the witch-queen, without ever reclaiming the topaz.
Syk is ruled by the witch-queen Azura, who is feared by everyone on Mongo.
For a time, Graz ' zt was trapped on the Material Plane by the witch-queen Iggwilv, who used his insight to elevate her own power.

witch-queen and her
Semele plots to find the star first and restore her own youth, but the witch-queen curses her so that she will never perceive the star in any way.
They share a meal and Madam Semele gives witch-queen meat cooked with Limbus grass, which causes anyone who tastes it to speak nothing but the truth, forcing the witch-queen to reveal the true purpose of her journey.
In the mountains the witch-queen makes an inn to catch Yvaine who is coming her way.
Yvaine falls for the trap, and the witch-queen is preparing to carve out her heart when Tristran and Primus, who have also been attracted by the inn, arrive.
Eventually, Non comes to admire her rival's innate courage, even joining forces with her against mutual enemies ( such as the demonic witch-queen Saturn and her devious henchman, Chou-san ) in several episodes.
The minstrel Quavo crosses from Noland over a steep mountain range into the land of Ix, whose witch-queen ruler Zixi learns of the magic cloak and seeks to use it to make her reflection in a mirror as beautiful as she has made herself.

witch-queen and search
He sets off in search of the witch-queen, in order to fulfill an obligation to avenge his slain brother, and the topaz, in order to claim his birthright as the last surviving son of Stormhold.

witch-queen and Madam
Tristran ( now returned to his human form ), Yvaine, Madam Semele and the witch-queen all arrive at the Wall market.

witch-queen and Semele
The witch-queen knew Semele as Ditchwater Sal when she was " a young chit of a thing ".

witch-queen and .
Using magic counteracts the effect ; therefore with each spell cast by the witch-queen, she grows older and uglier.
The witch-queen decides to delay killing Yvaine until she had dealt with the two unwanted guests.
Tristran and Yvaine escape the witch-queen, but find themselves in an almost equally perilous situation.
She reveals herself as the witch-queen, now more ancient and withered than she has ever been.
The witch-queen claims she'd have done better to give it to the Lilim, as Tristran will only break it like all men do.
The song " Witch Queen of New Orleans " ( 1971 ) by Redbone describes Marie La-voodoo-Veau, who is the witch-queen of New Orleans.

on and her
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.
Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.
When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
He turned to Susan and kissed her on the cheek.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.
Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.
In her grim pursuit of tranquillity, Pamela focused her thoughts on her husband.
In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.
She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Rod gave her a warm pat on the shoulder before he replied.
With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

on and search
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.
The piano performance on this Trout is one that really demands a search for superlatives.
At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.
This time the search took twice as long, cutting down on his extra reading, for he had to pick through several columns of one- and two-line social notes in each issue.
Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.
At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.
Some arachnopohbics will, on entering a room, search it for a spider.
( Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002 ) excerpt and text search, focus on historiography
Basic operations of an AVL tree involve carrying out the same actions as would be carried out on an unbalanced binary search tree, but modifications are preceded or followed by one or more operations called tree rotations, which help to restore the height balance of the subtrees.
Its furry paws allow it to walk on ice in search of food.
Take as an example a program that looks up a specific entry in a sorted list of size n. Suppose this program were implemented on Computer A, a state-of-the-art machine, using a linear search algorithm, and on Computer B, a much slower machine, using a binary search algorithm.
This interdisciplinary field encompasses the search for habitable environments in our Solar System and habitable planets outside our Solar System, the search for evidence of prebiotic chemistry, laboratory and field research into the origins and early evolution of life on Earth, and studies of the potential for life to adapt to challenges on Earth and in outer space.
In another, the search is on in Dogpatch for a pair of missing socks knitted by the first President of the United States.
Deaths from tourists and locals becoming stranded on outback trips occasionally occur, sometime because insufficient water and food supplies were taken, or because people have walked away from their vehicle in search of help.
It did offer the ability to tag messages with keywords, which the user could search on.
The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.
These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

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