Besides being a portion-control hawk, the most successful dieters are label fiends. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 Best Questions™ for Recovering from a Heart Attack] Reference
The internal fight by those of us who warned against and resisted the influx of chi-square fiends is over. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstein U: Notes on the Mass Production and Questionable Education of Journalists] Reference
And 1000 fiends is the political muscle that keeps you from affording a home. see: Cost of Housing at debunkingportland. com. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom? Oregon's fair to middlin' (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
He called the fiends, and I heard them come as a rushing tornado, and surround the house. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell]
Facebook 'fiends' are narcissistic, insecure, study says. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Or if he do, it shall be by treachery such as fiends would demur to perpetrate. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
The "fiends" alluded to are faces carved in medallions round the lower part of the fountain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sun-Dials] Reference
Nor hauberks mailed -- in battle treach'rous fiends. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
What fiends had devised this guilt-inducing polyhedron?. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Black: Confessions of a Failed Parent] Reference
Sometimes fiends whispered impious suggestions in his ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
How different the aspect of these fiends, as they are presented to us. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
"And any moment those fiends may come and drag him out to his death.". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
The officers say that the negroes make good soldiers and fight like fiends. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
If die I must, I would at least cheat those gibbering fiends of their show. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
You pathetic little fiends may rule our dreams, but you are physically small and weak!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference
For two hours they worked, looking, through the light of the lurid flames, like fiends. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
Now they were indeed converted into fiends and furies and sold themselves to swift destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
"I hope he isn't one of those 'dope fiends,'" and again a feeling of apprehension passed over him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
They were all hideous -- with streaks of red or green paint on their faces that made them look like fiends. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Such was not the uncommon work of the fiends, known to readers of fiction as the noble red men of the plains. From Wordnik.com. [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference
Carter's book reads like a novel, evoking a lost city inhabited by angels, bandits, punks and adrenaline fiends. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
My Holocaust survivor parents could argue like fiends, my father passive aggressively getting my mother to ignite. From Wordnik.com. [Lev Raphael: What's So Gay About Marriage? The Literary Record Is Grim] Reference
There's lots of coaches who are fiends at getting next to the battery signs, and tipping them off to their batters. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
After he was really dead we could hear the fiends running off, and then other people came and carried the body away. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
No, though a phalanx of fiends from the depths bar my passage, yet will I press forward like he who fights for life. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
All agree that more of our men were killed by these incarnate fiends in citizens 'clothing than by the secesh in uniforms. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
On they came in their successive charges, howling like fiends, and with a courage that would have adorned an honorable cause. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
By heavens, I love you to distraction, and have sworn a solemn oath that you shall be mine, though a legion of fiends oppose me! '. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
"And the magicians who have summoned these foul fiends will prove their earliest victims!" said Château-Renaud, in some excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
A half dozen of the yelling fiends instantly climbed to the roof of the cabin and kindled a fire upon the dry boards around the chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The invention of some especially forceful words for exorcising fiends and illnesses was ascribed to Robert Grosseteste (about 1175-1253). From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
"Grandfather of Beelzebub, is this a place to lie worshiping your fiends?" and he pricked the prostrate wretch with the point of his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
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