demoniac energy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : demoniac laughter. From Dictionary.com.
A more perplexing difficulty arises from his handling of the cases of so-called demoniac possession. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
It seemed to him for a moment that Osmond had a kind of demoniac imagination; it was impossible that without malice he should have selected so unusual a topic. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XLVIII] Reference
'demoniac' people, in the passus beginning 'they declare the world to be without a Truth, without a resting-place, without a Ruler,' and ending. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
"What demoniac design had you on my defenseless self?". From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Or by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Well, well -- I will not blacken these pages with demoniac ravings. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
But the arrival of the dark rider brought the demoniac singing to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway] Reference
For five solid minutes the broncho redoubled his scheme of demoniac fury. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
For I have discovered the true exorcism for demoniac influence in putting. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
The wretch cowered into silence, but his eyes glowed with fairly demoniac fury. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
The poor demoniac had clutched the radiant cross, and fell with it to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Just as they were about to put off, a burst of demoniac laughter rung in their ears. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Here the demoniac enthusiasm of both sides exceeded even the terrible exhibitions of Languedoc. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Nero, and incarnated in human bodies the myriads of demoniac spirits that walk the earth to-day?. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference
She fell instantly to the ground, a product of the demoniac being relieved of her hellish puppeteer. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil] Reference
Still on they came, and now the near woods resounded through all their aisles with their demoniac cry. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Raising himself to a sitting posture, he threw his arms above his head, and shrieked with a demoniac fury. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The belief in demoniac possession and the belief in witches were later developments from this same doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
It is the demoniac element, the raving of some particular demon, that creates greatness either in men or nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Pen cannot describe the concentrated frenzy of hatred with which the speaker dwelt upon the name, -- it was demoniac. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The Caliph of the West, filled with indignation at the demoniac cruelty of Velasquez, restored his captive to liberty. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
The lyrical portions, of the work -- introduced in connection with the demoniac characters -- are inferior to the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
No one should forget that some of the greatest sinners, even the demoniac saints themselves, often had humble beginnings. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
His teeth were clenched, and the muscles of his lips drawn over them gave him an expression half laughing, half demoniac. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Whereupon I quickly ended my imaginative discourse upon demoniac donkeys, and with no appearance of haste we walked away. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
At Chetwynde she had shown some weakness, but in her attitude to him he had discovered and had adored her demoniac beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
A constant supply of small hand-cars come up with demoniac groans and shrieks from the bowels of the earth through the shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
But as she raised her back, and spat at her master's visitors from under her chubbed tail, she looked demoniac enough for anything. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
"Now," Madame exclaimed, with the wild glare of a demoniac, "I will sit astraddle her waist, and Frank must do so also, facing me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
The murderer arose from his appalling work, and his loathsome face assumed, beneath his mask, an expression of demoniac satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
It was not necessary that the demoniac should be represented in the moment of recovery, if its certainty could be expressed by other means. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
First division to the charge of the rebels, who now rushed on with redoubled fury and with demoniac yells, carrying everything before them. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
To his childish sense the incongruity of one gifted with demoniac powers being helpless to prevent the depredations of his own domestic animal did not appeal. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Then, drawing from the folds of his dress a blood stone ring, he placed it near the nostrils of the demoniac, commanding the legion to come out of him, chanting. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
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