When he had grown older he had seen that she lived upon alms and thievery and witchlike evil doings that made all decent folk avoid her.
"The Little Hunchback Zia"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
She stepped out of the pool a withered and witchlike woman; when she dressed herself the rich clothes that she had worn before hung loosely upon her, and she looked the more forbidding because of them.
"The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles"
Padraic Colum
Her long thin legs were much too long for the shortness of her black cashmere frock, which was made 'en demoiselle,' after the fashion adhered to in French convents, where girls are compelled to look as ugly as possible, in order that they may eschew the sin of personal vanity,-her hair, of a rich raven black, was plaited in a stiff thick braid resembling a Chinese pigtail, and was fastened at the end with a bow of ribbon,-and a pair of wonderfully brilliant dark eyes flashed under her arching brows, suggesting something weird and witchlike in their roving glances, and giving an almost uncanny expression to her small, sallow face.
"God's Good Man"
Marie Corelli