“There stood a hideous witch, even as witches go, with greasy-knotted teeth, pitch-dark curls, and a nose so corkscrewed it could have decanted ten thousand bottles in ten thousand cellars of ten thousand lords and their fair ladies.”
“Even in the frigid cold, as soon as the crew had overturned the first layer of frost-crusted earth, a damp, hideous smell had come from this square of land, as if it exhaled bad breath in their faces.”
