With the next breath it shrieks in demoniacal fury, "We must have a victim for the sacrifice, and you shall pay! pay! pay!". From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine: An Autobiography] Reference
Till this moment the idea of demoniacal interference in my undertaking had not occurred to me. From Wordnik.com. [Visions -- A Phantasy] Reference
The instinct was terrible; a demoniacal possession. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
"Hear me!" rose to contest with that demoniacal uproar. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
I never in my life saw so many demoniacal faces together. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831] Reference
The scream was followed by a burst of laughter which was truly demoniacal. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
Glory of the Desert, was ultimately shot on account of her demoniacal temper. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
He felt he had almost won, and with demoniacal skill he phrased his sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Jago's demoniacal nature is masterfully depicted here, where he soon succeeds in ruining. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Malicious, yet hardly demoniacal, they are precisely Dryden's "spirits of a middle sort". From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
"It has the true demoniacal curve," he said; "we never saw a better view of the devil's bridge.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres; but godlike, and my Father's. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
Following this, there was a firm belief in demoniacal possession, and exorcism was practised by both. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
It was for a moment only, and I followed, the laughter sounding more and more demoniacal to my ears. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
The hideous bestial shapes, the noise and riot, may well have seemed demoniacal to simple people slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Jaspar's fists were clenched, and a demoniacal expression rested on his countenance, as he said, savagely. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
I had not succeeded in placing it as I had intended, and it had only the effect of rendering him demoniacal. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
York and the Bishop of Ely were involved with the citizen's wife in demoniacal dealings, and imprisoned in the Tower. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
Vacillating and vacant men may seek a new sensation by encouraging a revival of the demoniacal epidemics of heathendom. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Suddenly a demoniacal laugh split the air and the creature vanished, running swiftly, crouched, with long arms hanging. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
Then, with a suddenness that was appalling, the insane cackle of a woodrail shattered the silence with its demoniacal cries. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
There are muttered curses, a blood-curdling, demoniacal yell, then in solemn, guttural tones, "The world shall see his bones.". From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
With the united fury of fiends of Hades, he laughed in demoniacal glee at the desperation of the Arctic travelers under his heel. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
He has entered the Elysian Fields; and the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and demoniacal men, of the "azonic" and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Even much later, however, when other diseases were assigned a physical origin, insanity was still thought to be demoniacal possession. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
His eyes were flaming with demoniacal fury, foam stood out upon his lips, and from those lips issued a wailing cry that ended in a shriek. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
In the center of his forehead was an enormous and fiery eye, and about his sinister mouth the grin which I at first saw became demoniacal. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
Many in the prison believe in his demoniacal powers, but the official explanation is that he slipped through a secret doorway which has yet to be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Twin] Reference
He then began the druidic poetry and the demoniacal arts until the snow fell so that it would reach the girdles of men; and all saw and wondered greatly. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference
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