Sample sentences for NECROMANCY

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conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying

suspected of necromancy

There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
This charge of necromancy is right often used for cloaking evil practices on our people.
Scott, Walter -- Ivanhoe
Necromancy animates these wights, yet they are still only dead flesh.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
Though he wore maester's robes, there was no chain about his neck; it was whispered that he had lost it for dabbling in necromancy.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
Iloathe Shades-they practice the most unholy magic, after necromancy.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
This charge of necromancy is right often used for cloaking evil practices on our people.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
But he began to weaken, and Fielding was not ashamed to practise a little necromancy.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
There is necromancy about this matter, and all our characters may be involved in the explanation.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
I then absolutely concluded, that all these appearances could be nothing else but necromancy and magic.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
Your poor cousin Clifford is another dead and long-buried person, on whom the governor and council have wrought a necromantic miracle.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Necromancy might make their bodies move again, but their souls are gone forever.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
The way of necromancy, the black sorcery of bell, book, and candle.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
It's often associated with necromancy and black magic of the worst sort.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Marian says that the queen is not a fairy herself, but only a necromancer who is friendly with them.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
How he got there I don't know, but I found him a prisoner in the dungeons of the Necromancer.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
Dee is an alchemist, a magician, a sorcerer and a necromancer, and they are not all the same thing.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
And the third sister Morgan le Fay was put to school in a nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk of necromancy.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I

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