He said there’s a spirit called an incubus that comes to women in their sleep, and—. From Wordnik.com. [Elixir] Reference
Oh! but an incubus is here, the haunt. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
The words of Montoyo had scored deeply, and the presence of our supernumerary laid a kind of incubus, like an omen of ill luck, upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
"incubus;" they felt the physical weight of Catholicity, or the Cross, and half guessed its spiritual spring. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
You have heard that there are two of demon-kind, the incubus which is the male, and the succubus which is the female, correct? ". From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
To escape from this incubus he purchases the volume. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
He was rid of his incubus -- why mince the word now!. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Virginia failed to rid herself of the growing "incubus.". From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
All day, the thought has weighed upon me like an incubus. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
We must indeed not let this incubus of state overwhelm us. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
He hated the house -- it was an incubus, a millstone; but. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Densuké had high hopes of an early disposition of the incubus. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
A large membership of ineffective persons may be only an incubus. From Wordnik.com. [What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider] Reference
Such charges are an incubus on trade, and may wisely be abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
But Mr. Mallory was from first to last an incubus upon the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
President Heureaux and an incubus on the development of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
It is not, as in later times, an incubus; it is still an inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
It has been an incubus of discouragement in all intellectual pursuits. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
The prospective change weighed on his sensitive spirits like an incubus. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
An incubus rode his chest, though he never knew till now, when it fled at the sight of. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Once the ghastly farcical incubus was off her shoulders she had followed Littimer upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Perhaps it is this incubus of interruption that drives so many men to working late at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
At least the werewolf was human half the time, and, unlike the incubus, a pretty responsible guy. From Wordnik.com. [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference
So she went to work with that incubus, or stimulus -- whichever you wish to regard it -- over her. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
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