“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.”
“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.”
