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witch-hunt
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  • I didn't know what to do, and when I saw the ship — " All at once she was sobbing and babbling like a three-year-old, about the witch hunt, and the chase through the cornfield, and the man who had come so close.†   (source)
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  • The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression.†   (source)
  • With the very visible failure of the investigation into the brutal deaths of three women, the media is attempting to incite a witch-hunt.†   (source)
  • The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.†   (source)
  • I understood the reason for his hesitancy; he had seen the frenzy of the witch-hunt at Cranesmuir.†   (source)
  • Chances were that Colum had forbidden anyone to come down to the village, for fear of being caught up in the witch-hunt.†   (source)
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