| 单词 | diabolic |
| 例句 | But now, serene with Hoagland’s method, my memory is fantastic, near diabolic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “What was the diabolic thing that happened to Mr. Cadaver?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He seemed positively diabolic in his enjoyment of our discomfort. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What if he should knock me in the head—or worse; he sounded diabolic. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Waking from the dream, Tartini attempted to recollect the fugitive motives of this diabolic sonata, but could not — and wrote instead, from those fragments, his sonata, infamous for its difficulty, called “The Devil’s Trill.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His implacable marshaling of facts and his logic had something of a new dialectic, diabolic in its force. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a diabolic talent, destructive and self-destructive, and here allied to something else: a nose for other people's weakness. The Imposter – review 2012-08-23T20:30:01Z To crown all, this imaginative anthology even makes room for Arthur Machen’s dizzyingly phantasmagoric “The White People,” and that chilling fairy tale of diabolic temptation, Lucy Clifford’s “The New Mother.” Review | Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Rogers’ Rita and Deeker’s Dieter are recognizable types, stylish and ambitious professionals whose career frustrations make them prime targets for diabolic temptation. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Suffice to hint that laughter and comedy move from the diabolic to the humanistic, that the name of the rose is a play of words. The Times' 1983 review of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose:' An intriguing detective story 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z There is something diabolic in the sooty image; it takes a moment to notice the tiny, fleshlike, pointed polyurethane heels at the end of her tensed feet, which give Mège an otherworldly, succubus-like aspect. The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z They are haunted by strange odours: heavenly perfumes, or diabolic stenches. 'You have to experience it to know what fat is like' 2013-02-02T08:01:04Z What Hutton finds more difficult to prove is the existence of literal diabolic cults, though the belief in them is certainly well-documented, particularly among groups organized to combat them. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The Guardian called it a “diabolic luxury” while The Sun said the occasional one-liner lends some fun to the grisly scenes. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Midsommar’ and ‘Dracula’ 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z They can be human or reptilian, winged or pawed, angelic or diabolic. Sisko Gallery scares up some 'Creatures of the Night' 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z Wild places are by definition unsafe, elusive, and potentially diabolic. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z The ornate Hindu cave-temples at Ellora were "the most wonderful thing" he had seen in India, though "too diabolic to be beautiful". Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z As such, Thomasin bears the brunt of the finger-pointing when the diabolic kicks off. The Witch: ‘Good horror is taking a look at what’s dark in humanity’ 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The world was outraged to learn that the war had taken this diabolic new turn, that an ocean liner full of innocent civilians was now considered fair game. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Then, like Khan, they subjected the analog skulls to a compression test—using a diabolic pneumatic air cylinder and a steel plate, instead of their bare hands. Yes, That Game of Thrones Exploding Head Thing Could Really Happen (Probably) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Threads had flooded my body with the diabolic opposite of adrenaline. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z He deployed a similar move when, immediately upon being sworn in, he issued an executive order banning instruction in those diabolic “divisive” concepts. Opinion | Glenn Youngkin’s ‘tip line’ was a partisan puff of hot air 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z "The dictatorship has once again surpassed its own evil and diabolic spirit." Nicaraguan police detain bishop critical of President Daniel Ortega 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps rattled by the setback, Woods may have made a mental mistake when he chose a 7-iron at the diabolic par-3 12th hole, which was playing into the stiff wind. Tiger Woods Has an Up-and-Down Day at the Masters 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "They don't consider the everyday lives of people but put partisan interests before everything and trust in the diabolic and perverse logic of weapons, which is the furthest thing from God's mind." 'Heartbroken' Pope urges help for Ukraine, condemns warmongers 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z These gangs, called cults in Nigeria because of their diabolic initiation processes and body scars, seek to control territories and commit crime. The mystery of Nigeria's fake gangster attacks 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In the northeastern city of Salvador, where a reported 70,000 people marched, one dissenter carried a diabolic caricature of Bolsonaro stamped with the phrase: “Not today Satan”. Students protest across Brazil over Jair Bolsonaro's sweeping cuts to education 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Then, in the mid-eighteenth century, the extensive undermining began to have consequences for the upper city, causing subsidence sinkholes, known as fontis, that were reputed to be of diabolic origin. The Invisible City Beneath Paris 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The church both denounced Samhain as diabolic and instituted its own versions in the form of All Saints’ Day on 1 November and All Souls’ Day on 2 November. So now Brexit could fall on Halloween. How very … appropriate | Andrew Martin 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Very little music of the past hundred years is as bleak, bruised, disturbed, demented and diabolic as Walker’s. From the sun lounger to the electric chair: Scott Walker's experimental genius 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Delusional, dangerous and diabolic are just a few descriptors raised by news that U.S. representatives suppressed efforts at the World Health Organization to promote breast-feeding, even threatening trade sanctions against countries sponsoring the measure. Breast-feeding resolution: ‘Diabolical’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z There is something diabolic in these remarks, American press reports uniformly suggest, but I have yet to figure out what this might be. If it’s hard for you to deal with Korean peace talks because of Trump, maybe get your head checked 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But avoiding the “diabolic loop” between banks and states also requires cutting the other link—from state insolvency to banking failures. Europe inches closer to a plan for fixing its financial flaws 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z “The sloped fairways, the strategic bunkers and ditches, the diabolic speedy greens, the intimidating shots everywhere you turn—all tie together to bring together a collective continuity from beginning to end.” Oakmont Country Club - Golf Digest 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z He added: “Terrorism needs no port of entry or a passport to be presented to border guards. It is like the air and can be pushed like a diabolic wind, striking wherever it pleases.” Half of $12bn refugee fund pledged at London meeting not disbursed 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z And then he opens his mouth and, I'm afraid, the spell of diabolic menace is shattered in an instant. Judas Priest's Rob Halford: 'I feel a bit like Quentin Crisp' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Ondra's efforts are inevitably accompanied by a soundtrack of grunts and screams as he wills himself through the hardest sequences with an almost diabolic determination. Adam Ondra: a rock star at the height of his powers 2013-02-17T00:06:04Z Berlioz, a half mad Frenchman; Richard Wagner, a crazy revolutionist, a fugitive from Saxony; and the Hungarian Liszt, half French, wholly diabolic—of such were the uncanny ingredients of the new music. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z "Maiden," he continued in a bass that was now truly diabolic, "the ladder of knotted sheets for thy fell purpose awaitest thee." Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Cedranus mentions the “diabolic dances” among the enormities practised at the Feast of Fools, which was generally held about Christmas, though not confined to that festival. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Statesmen must have breathed much more freely when the demagogue had left London and they were rid for a while, however short, of “his inhuman squint and diabolic grin.” The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Rather Satan has entered into them and they have become victims of diabolic obsession. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z The piano in it is put to various uses, with a fill of glissandi matching the diabolic mood. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Among others an able critic has thus summed up his impressions:— "Of the whole we will say briefly, that its premises are monstrous, its reasoning sophistical, its conclusions absurd, and its spirit diabolic." Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Laws against the liberty of the Press followed this diabolic act, and now M. Thiers was found on the side of repression of free speech. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z They have hard shells of a bright saffron colour, and their faces have a most cynical and diabolic expression. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z It was impossible for Pole to realize the substantial causes of that perfectly natural development, and it was his cue to represent Henry as having acted at the diabolic suggestion of Satan’s emissary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Mr. Burmeister has also made a very effective welding of Liszt's diabolic Mephisto Waltz for piano and orchestra which he has successfully played in Germany. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z And this brings us to a more close consideration of the spirit of this book, characterized by our contemporary as "diabolic." Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Don Vantano, with the diabolic cunning which distinguishes his fraternity, had succeeded in ingratiating himself with the family of Nanna, and in poisoning their minds against me. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z In the Middle Ages again, when everything weird and unnatural was unhesitatingly ascribed to diabolic agency, these phenomena, also, were regarded as nothing else but the Devil's work. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The inevitable reaction of tippling, in a nature like his, rendered him fairly diabolic at times in his home; and the cruel spirit was the fiercer by reason of the need for its repression elsewhere. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The complicated scales of the cornet, with its diabolic capers, seemed like a happy outburst of laughter from Death, who with the child in her arms, departed amid the sunset resplendencies of the plain. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z The insincere propaganda of jingoism as a mere weapon of attack on the President was diabolic. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The characteristic background chosen by Philippa, however admirable in a photograph, afforded one of the most diabolic rides of my experience. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Even Christian theology has never absolutely denied the existence of such extraordinary powers over the spirits of the departed, although it has consistently attributed them to diabolic influences. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z In one sharp attack earlier in the trial, the lawyer for the barman called her Satanic, diabolic, a witch and a she-devil. Knox "crucified" in murder case, lawyer says 2011-09-30T01:15:56Z In one particularly sharp attack earlier in the trial, the lawyer for the barman called Knox Satanic, diabolic, a witch and a she-devil. Botched probe, unfair image landed Knox in jail: lawyer 2011-09-29T10:32:52Z It is most of it directly traceable to the diabolic machinations of the party of protection for the past twenty years. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z She has appeared gaunt and pale during closing arguments by prosecutors and lawyers and her father said she had a particularly tough day on Monday when one lawyer called her "diabolic" and a "she-devil." Jailed Knox dreams of simple pleasures, father says 2011-09-27T14:56:12Z Lumumba's lawyer launched a sharp attack in court on Knox's character on Monday, calling her diabolic, satanic, a she-devil and a witch of deception. Congolese bar owner says Knox ruined his life 2011-09-26T16:42:04Z Where there had been placid beauty, there was now an ugliness that verged on the diabolic grotesque; where there had been healthy life, there was now foul corruption. The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z The whole thing was most carefully planned beforehand with diabolic ingenuity and resource. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Nowhere and at no time was he secure against the odious appearance which haunted him with such diabolic perseverance. In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 2011-08-25T02:00:34.247Z The indictment which set forth how Ráby by the help of diabolic arts, had forcibly broken out of custody, and fled to another country, was read. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Happy I'd been had I but had my due reward, and not a sword Flaming in diabolic hand between me and my Paradise. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z Some enraged consumers took efforts to battle this diabolic packaging. Say Goodbye to Those Annoying 'Clamshell' Plastic Containers 2011-06-03T17:50:00Z We turn over the pages of our bible for further information on this diabolic theme. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z At this very moment the tambourines of the dervishes are driving me nearly wild with their diabolic din. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Of the several indictments against him, several had not been verified, but one at least they indeed had proved, and that was, that by diabolic agency he had escaped from the dungeon. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Still, she recalled being made to feel ill at ease by a "diabolic and severe" look Strauss Kahn gave female students sitting in the front row. Special report: The two faces of DSK 2011-05-19T19:06:19Z Within thy glance, so diabolic and divine, Confusedly both wickedness and goodness dwell, And hence one might compare thee unto sparkling wine. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z His law is the law of Moses, which according to the Manichean heresy Christ came to reverse as diabolic. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z And when, over a poker game, some player seems to enter into a pleasant conversation, the other players know that even that is a bluff—a blind to cover up some diabolic plot. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z It grew positively diabolic as Mr. Ebling took a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and began flicking dust from his spats. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z And women, too, fair, delicate, and lovely, the tenderest flowers that ever were nursed within domestic care, mixed up with others, not less handsome perhaps, but whose siren beauty is almost diabolic by comparison. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z It would be possible farther to illustrate Luther’s conception of the Evil Principle by quoting many of his specific sayings about diabolic agency. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Every ill that happened, whether a man tripped over his threshold, or a thunderbolt hit his roof, was ascribed to diabolic agencies. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Some view our sable race with scornful eye— "Their colour is a diabolic dye." The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z "Well, Ted, our friend nearly did for you," he said with his diabolic grin, as he drew a chair alongside my bed. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Suffice it to relate, that all at once I found my steed performing a series of diabolic evolutions, and in some mysterious manner he and I parted company in a final burst of rapid-fire contortions. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z In it, he explained how he first came to meditate the crime which he afterwards carried out with such diabolic persistence. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z "I have nothing to do with the magic that is diabolic," said the offended enchanter. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico He could have seen in this ‘amusing sight,’ the return of the Spanish Inquisition and diabolic intolerance of barbarism, had he been able to look ahead. Politics of Alabama Who likes to have a birthday frolic And eats until he has a colic, That for the time is diabolic? Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott These varied more or less from place to place, centring as they did largely on local features which were regarded as embodiments or vehicles of divine or of diabolic power. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race There was here nothing to support the diabolic legend with which under the suggestion of Brother Aloysius he had endowed it. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Wherefore it is your duty firmly, and without prejudice, to preserve the Churches as you received them, and let this attempt of diabolic usurpation find nothing of its own in you. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries And," added the diabolic H. R., "we have no fear of overcrowding. H. R. At the moment the bullets were rattling like diabolic hailstones against the steel sides by which the hull of the vessel were strengthened. The Irish at the Front Another diabolic spurt that made the sledge twist and quiver. Fragments of an Autobiography He tried to thrill Michael with some of his own diabolic experiences, but Michael was a little contemptuous and told him that his devil was merely a figure of academic naughtiness. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Oh, the eternal horror that may spring from one wild and lawless action, from the recital of one diabolic litany! Bye-Ways The Chinamen about me were evidently enjoying my sufferings keenly as I could see from the diabolic grins upon their dark faces. The Green God A certain diabolic strangeness redeemed the whole effect from mere unpleasantness. Carnival His pallid face took a diabolic glow in the first sun. Where the Pavement Ends An undergraduate with gown wrapped carelessly round his neck flashed past on a bicycle, and Michael was discouraged by the sense of his diabolic ease. Sinister Street, vol. 2 All is arranged, and to-morrow, by this time to-morrow—” His lips rolled back, the large prominent teeth gleamed in a smile of diabolic delight. What a Man Wills Are there really diabolic agencies at work in those ministrations? Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier They are diabolic, if you will, but not Mephistophelian. Artists Past and Present Random Studies For just then, with diabolic inspiration, Silva poured a glass of sticky yellow liquor and put it out of his reach where the drifting scent of it was a torment of Tantalus.... Where the Pavement Ends The foolish, being unacquainted with my supreme and divine nature, as Lord of all things, despise me in this human form, trusting to the evil, diabolic, and deceitful principle within them. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning But, first of all, I should depose That diabolic curve And author of my thousand woes, The pneumogastric nerve! Second Book of Verse The sinister smile which flickered across his face was made diabolic by the cross rays from the lanterns carried by two peasant soldiers. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The theory of diabolic agency had been elaborated. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 He crouched like a beast, ferine—all the obscure and diabolic passion of him ready to spring. Where the Pavement Ends Up and down a neighboring tree two lemurs chased with that grace and diabolic vivacity which those enchanting animals alone possess. Mary Magdalen It was a combination of acid, sulphur and saline, like a diabolic julep of lucifer-matches, bad eggs, vinegar and magnesia. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. His dress, of a complete bull's hide, had secured him from the pistol-shot; and the horns and tail were not diabolic, but mere natural appendages of the original. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed He has many true inventions in the perilous and diabolic; he has many startling nightmares realised. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers But in the midst of their laughter and rejoicing at the easy manner in which they had got rid of him, cockcrow sounded, and the diabolic company swiftly disappeared. Legends & Romances of Brittany I have a 337 great talent for compliment, accompanied by a hateful, even a diabolic frankness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) The roughened native instincts of a gentleman had sobered from Quixotic impulses into a diabolic calm. The Missourian Trust him wholly you may not; a characteristic often noted in intelligences that are neither exactly human, nor exactly diabolic, nor exactly divine. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The angelic and diabolic elements are not so clearly discriminated in this world, and should show themselves less unequivocally on the stage, which ought to be its mirror. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But if they do not confess, this diabolic production lays it down that this is because witches who have given themselves up to the devil are insensible to pain. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Van Helmont makes it very clear that this is not magic or sorcery; there is no diabolic influence, no necromancy. Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 Godwin in unwary moments would talk as though aristocracy and positive law had come to us from without, by a sort of diabolic revelation. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle On the successive landings were doors and he wondered what tragedies, what comedies, what aims, lofty, mean or merely diabolic, they concealed. The Paliser case The sailors were sure that he had, and more than one said the same in jest, who in his heart regarded the dog as a sort of diabolic animal. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras One may not enjoy this kind of fun, but to take it seriously, as the emanation of a gloomy and diabolic genius, is absurd. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History His enigmatic personality, his seldom-seen figure was very present in their minds, and with it were overtones of all the diabolic cunning and suave ironic cruelty that men always associated with him. The Affair of the Brains Give me to drink of thy love, divine and diabolic; thy cruelty and thy kindness, I accept both, if thou wilt but whisper to me the secret of both. The Book of Khalid Therefore every such comparison must utterly fail of doing justice to the diabolic cruelty ascribed to the Almighty by this Orthodox doctrine. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Bells tinkle.—How simple, quiet, almost village-like this city of my vision seems in contrast with the Boston of today with its diabolic subways, its roaring overhead trains, its electric cars and its streaming automobiles! A Son of the Middle Border Their calm, clear, contemplative attitude seemed either insane or diabolic; and accordingly they have been pitied as enthusiasts or killed as blasphemers. Pioneers of Science As then, too, his hair rose in tongues of diabolic flame. The Dust Flower No, it is a country the most diabolic this side of the ocean. Hurricane Island She whom I loved was not only in danger of being lost to me for ever, but in danger of becoming the victim of a dastard coquin—diabolic as dastard! The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness There are, however, some apparently liberal, if discreditable, concessions—that Luizzi may reveal, print, and in any other way avail himself of the diabolic information. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century In the result of introversion, the diabolic mysticism is opposed, as we saw, to the divine. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts Letty found him a marvelous figure in his scarlet robe, and with his mass of diabolic black hair. The Dust Flower It was unprecedented, and it was, therefore, wrong, unnatural, diabolic, a violation of the sound principles which uphold human society. The Wonder Pascal looking at the face of the world sees evidence on all sides of the presence of something blighting and poisonous, something diabolic and malign in the way things are now organised. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I love my Dark and Middle Ages; but I should say that there was considerable diabolic activity in them, outside tombs. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century During the night I heard the diabolic screech of a loon somewhere down the river, while closer by rose the pathetic song of the whippoorwill. A Virginia Scout He had charmed her from her home by the exercise of diabolic arts. A Black Adonis It was construed, to suit the occasion and the times, either into divine inspiration or diabolic whisperings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Blasphemous wit and Satanic sentiment are the natural reactions of all healthy youthfulness in the presence of the sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The punishment of this sort of diabolic spirit of perversity, he brings about by a train of circumstances as hideous, incongruous, and absurd, as the sentiment itself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Every twig and leaf began to play a diabolic symphony. A Poor Man's House In olden times a disordered mind was considered of divine or diabolic origin as it evinced good or evil tendencies. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire It was as if this were the final, consummate stroke of the diabolic master. The Creators A Comedy Certain scenes in that romance lodged themselves in my brain with diabolic intensity. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The Fathers grant to the Oracles a real power of foresight and prophecy, but in all cases explain these supernatural functions out of diabolic inspiration. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 The revolution, as Burke maintained, was in fact the avatar of a diabolic power. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill In the Protestant world the orthodox magic of the Roman Church lost its saving power and was regarded as no less diabolic than all other black art. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' They postured now in attitudes of prudery and terror; they protested; they proclaimed themselves victims of diabolic power, worshippers of the purity, the sanctity of English letters, constrained to an act of unholy propitiation. The Creators A Comedy All ugliness, and abortion, and fading away; all signs of vice and foulness, he turns away from, as inherently diabolic and horrible; all signs of unconquered emotion he regrets, as weaknesses. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature By some action of his diabolic machine the Red must have snuffed out his four captives—perhaps in the belief that they were part of the Apache attack. The Defiant Agents These magic roots have the likeness of a little man, hideously ugly and misshapen in a weird and diabolic fashion. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country And the perpetual motion of a glacier has something about it which is cruelly inevitable, bestial, diabolic. A Tramp's Notebook It is now to be the diabolic standard, and he goes with it towards the door of his house, pensive and sad. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 It would seem, almost, as if a diabolic providence had prepared them for this very result. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy What if she had sinned, and trafficked with diabolic agencies, in trying to read the future? The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Here the odd, arch, diabolic yellow flare lit up through the stoicism of Pancrazio's eyes. The Lost Girl The diabolic and magic superstitions of the Moslem are displayed in Sale's Korân and Lane's Modern Egyptians. The Superstitions of Witchcraft Each diabolic lump of water that came galloping along threatened not only the boat but the vessel with sudden destruction. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century The table seemed to wake to diabolic energy under her palms. The Shadow World "You saw that I was in a detestable, a diabolic temper." The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There was in the man a sort of sulphur-yellow flame of passion which would light up in his battered body and give him an almost diabolic look. The Lost Girl But, after all, the overthrow of the diabolic altars was caused much more by the discoveries of science than by all the writings of literary philosophers. The Superstitions of Witchcraft The question had been chosen with diabolic craft; for of all acts attesting compulsory allegiance to Rome that of having to pay the poll-tax was most offensive to the Jews. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern And then swiftly, unaccountably, all these gentle or genial influences were scattered as if by something hellish, something diabolic. The Shadow World At a given moment of time, the diabolic element had of necessity obtruded itself. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Yet more fearful to disclose the secret and unloose such a diabolic power. Beyond the Vanishing Point Christianity, with something of the spirit of Judaism from which it sprung, was forced to believe that the older religions must have sprung from a diabolic origin. The Superstitions of Witchcraft We must do our part to save Christian civilization from the mad nationalism of the German people led by their diabolic Hohenzollern reigning family and war bureaucracy. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 The curiosity shop itself was a lumber of grotesque and sinister things, outlandish weapons, twisted and diabolic decorations. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens But having once known it in its fulness, she could not fail to recognise its presence, even though it wore a diabolic, rather than angelic face. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance And so none of his characters, divine, diabolic or human, will ever move us quite as he moves us himself. Milton But the Church, which allowed no miracle to be legitimate out of the pale, and yet could not deny the fact of the miraculous without, was obliged to assert it to be of diabolic origin. The Superstitions of Witchcraft The air was musical with hooting shell and singing shot and hissing bullet as if a whole diabolic orchestra were fiddling and bugling. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea The reduction of the world's mental power had been carefully planned with diabolic premeditation. The Street That Wasn't There "You look absolutely diabolic in this uncertain light." The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Untrue thoughts and wicked thoughts sometimes arise equally unaccountably: the fact that they do so is even now accounted for by some as a sufficient proof of direct diabolic suggestion. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge The diabolic economy, as evidently set forth in the work of man's destruction, might require certain modes of acting quite above our reason and understanding. The Superstitions of Witchcraft This chanced to be the arm of Godfrey McCulloch, who seemed to wear a smile of diabolic sarcasm on his face. Patsy Men were diabolic in their cruelty to Him, but never did a woman betray Him, mock Him, desert Him, nor spit in His face. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion What if diabolic shapes lurked there, ready to become stealthily emergent? The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The Captain was not one of those whom Terrence O’Connor credited with diabolic possession. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue It affords a safe opportunity to villainy to work its diabolic will, so that some of the fairest scenes of earth are converted into human shambles. In the Track of the Troops The aesthetic sense does not only reveal loveliness and distinction; it also reveals the grotesque, the bizarre, the outrageous, the indecent and the diabolic. The Complex Vision Is this sum yet paid, and the sermon still preached, or has it fallen into disuse now that it is unpopular to believe in witchcraft and diabolic possession? Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. A mystic and diabolic aspect of the Fraternity is so remote from his mind that in his “Secret of Freemasonry” the Bishop of Grenoble affirms that its sole project is to replace Christianity by rationalism. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Even the devil-descended Whig—especially the variety represented by Burke—was as far as possible from representing what he took for the diabolic agency. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The old folklore belief in incubi and succubi as the parents of changelings is brought into connection with the theory of direct diabolic begettal. German Culture Past and Present She looked directly down upon him, foreshortened to a face, and even with the distance and the broad glare of noon between them she recognized his aspect—his gayest, of diabolic glee. The Coast of Chance The whole question that lies at bottom is whether this world is divine or diabolic. Real Ghost Stories If at one time witches were burnt by countless thousands, it was at a period when implicit faith in the reality of diabolic conspiracy was undisturbed by sceptical questionings. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals There was a diabolic aura about her face, and her hair was red! Here are Ladies Fellow citizens, words fail me to express my horror of this diabolic proposition, this proposed instrument of tyrannical extortion, borrowed from the Dark Ages of the Twentieth Century! Lone Star Planet Almost as he spoke, Mr. Bowles, the chemist, came to his shop door in a long black velvet gown and hood, monastic as it were, but yet with a touch of the diabolic. The Napoleon of Notting Hill They can sympathize with great energies, whether celestial or diabolic, but their attitude towards the feeble and the low is apt to be that of indifference, or contempt. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 On, on, precipitate, headlong came Germany with diabolic efficiency, thrusting viciously at the heart of France. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights That was the diabolic but at least coherent philosophy upon which the Kingdom of Prussia was originally based and upon which the German Empire created by Prussia always reposed. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Rabelais was now called "a Lucian who by his diabolic fatuity had profaned the gospel, that holy and sacred pledge of life eternal." The Age of the Reformation He did not speak of the things that were corroding his heart, but he sat by and heard himself chatter his diabolic creed as a drunkard watches his own folly. A Certain Rich Man Visions are of two kinds, divine and diabolic. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence The cunning of the half-breed was diabolic in its sureness. The Place Beyond the Winds It is rather curious that anything of a diabolic nature should be associated with this man of amiable and gentle disposition, whose care of his scholars, according to Dr. Burney, was constantly paternal. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music If we follow his orders, have no doubt that he will attain his diabolic objectives. The Universe — or Nothing His doubting soul was the battle-field over which he ranged day and night searching for diabolic opponents. Visionaries If the king is diabolic, his ministers and the retinue are insanities, and the people of his realm are falsities of every kind. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail, With diabolic grin and crafty leer; I say, such bogey-man devices wholly fail To waken in my heart a single fear. Fifty years & Other Poems He let himself loose in it, with a rush, a vehemence, a diabolic brilliance and clamour. The Helpmate It really seemed as though they were inspired by a diabolic will-force pitting itself against our wills, vegetable incarnations of evil strength and fury and cunning. Pieces of Eight He recollected with a vivid sense of the disagreeable the lively antics of a lithe youth in the company, who, at the close of the concert, executed with diabolic dexterity what they called a Schuhplattltanz. Visionaries Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Everybody watched with wonder this play, as of some large and diabolic toy. Romance That indeed is the gravamen of my charge: the diabolic ingenuity with which he makes not so much our pleasant vices as our little almost-virtues into whips to scourge us with. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 He also seems to take a diabolic pleasure in tormenting Amos Opie as regards the general make-up and pedigree of his beloved hound David. The Garden, You, and I It was the diabolic Circus of the Candles, the infernal circus of the Witches' Sabbath. Visionaries But I knew that I must get away, out of sight of this moveless and diabolic figure, which did not speak, but which made known its commands by means of its eyes alone. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy And the diabolic part of it all is that this squeamish feeling of responsibility for another may achieve as much harm in the long run as its lack. The Iron Furrow The whole truth was soon revealed, and the diabolic wickedness of Lady William did not pass unpunished, for she was burnt, and the cook was condemned to stand in boiling lead. Strange Pages from Family Papers Guilty ambition, seconded by diabolic malice and issuing in murder, opens the action in Macbeth. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth The Fathers of the early Church, Ambrose and the rest, were right in viewing them suspiciously."—He spoke:— "The arts diabolic! Visionaries It will be said, 'However you may seek to explain away a priori objections to miracles on a priori grounds, there remains the fact that Christ accepted the current superstition in regard to diabolic possession. Thoughts on Religion It was probably supposed that a heretic would be unable to repeat the prayer and the creed, being under diabolic influence. Joan of Arc Fiends by day and night Are groping for your heart to sate In blood their diabolic spite. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse He knew--none better--that this diabolic deed was planned and executed with the full consent, approbation, and blessing of the Romanist priests, and might even be known to the Pope himself. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Like a diabolic litany boomed the questions and answers:— "Day and night we must have but one thought—inexorable destruction." Visionaries Soon the prisoner was led forth, and was publicly admonished by a monk not to tempt God if his skill had its origin in diabolic agencies. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine One misfortune was with diabolic ingenuity dovetailed into another. Idolatry A Romance Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal. Diane of the Green Van It is, indeed, impossible to guess what the nature of that feeling must be which arises from the full gratification of mean and diabolic malignity. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One "What do you know, my dear young man, of diabolic arts?" Visionaries Is it not like some wild diabolic carnival? French and English A Story of the Struggle in America And no diabolic agent, having once bitten a publisher, can persuade that publisher to hold out his generous hand to be bitten again. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 It is a diabolic law which will have to stand aside for a greater law of love, of co-operation, and of kindness. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him They were a bit nervous, remembering the diabolic uproar about Faith, Hope, and Charity. A Woman Named Smith His human nature got the better of every other nature in him, divine or diabolic, and he was distracted. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers His conduct of the siege of Detroit, as we shall see, was marked by duplicity and diabolic savagery. The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war After all, no idolized author and no diabolic agent can force a publisher to pay more than he really wants to pay. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 They had twaddled and stormed about his immorality, but his praise of Napoleon sent them into diabolic frenzy. The Tragedy of St. Helena He is a Mephistopheles out at elbows, a Lucifer in low water; yet always diabolic, with the bright flash of the pit in his eye. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) All his diabolic striving To intensify slave-driving Could not slay the soul surviving In a Nation's breast. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 "Any one who holds such diabolic doctrines is not fit to remain in Belfront Castle." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Acton tottered to his feet blind with rage—diabolic rage—but hate and fury couldn't give him strength to stand. Acton's Feud A Public School Story "Is it your diabolic fancy," he said, "or did you honestly copy it?" Father Stafford His light-blue eyes were very red round the rims, and what eyebrows he possessed slanted up at a diabolic angle. The Altar Steps Their disciples in England seemed in the same diabolic frenzy with themselves. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The thing was diabolic in the simplicity of its cleverness. Mavericks “I suppose,” she said, catching the diabolic glances of Miss Ingate and Tommy, “I suppose you know almost more people in London than in Paris?” The Lion's Share I had got," he said, glancing at his last chapter, "to where the alchemic experiments and diabolic evocations have proved unavailing. Là-bas He came from the top of glory to the bottom of humiliation, and changed a circumference seraphic for a circumference diabolic. New Tabernacle Sermons Troops of baffled demons fled at their approach howling in diabolic despair. The Jungle Girl Je me m�te with the affairs of the Theatre—they are in my diabolic province, you know. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 The king gave a superstitious shudder; it sometimes came into his mind that Chicot was a supernatural being—a diabolic incarnation, of a good kind, it was true, but still diabolical. The Forty-Five Guardsmen In vain he may dream of unique violations, of more ingenious slow tortures, but human imagination has a limit and he has already reached it—even passed it, with diabolic aid. Là-bas There is something diabolic in such pleasure, especially when it is felt by a man intoxicated with love, and full of religious respect for the virgin of his election. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism I warmly sympathise with those who think most of this rather morbid, and nearer the diabolic than the divine, but to call a thing diabolic is hardly an argument against the existence of diabolism. The New Jerusalem On hearing these words, I felt my heart so wrung that nothing but pride—a diabolic pride—kept me from crying. The Bed-Book of Happiness The feminine excuse for this last diabolic iniquity had been that the kitchen at the last moment had discovered itself to be short of coffee. The Plain Man and His Wife There was something almost diabolic in the beauty, the fascination, the cleverness, of the man. Tom Tufton's Travels The dull warmth below was exquisite; the sly creatures which crept from their, dens and let the lamplight shine on their weird eyes—even the gamesome rats—had something merrily diabolic about them. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Dual personality is not so very far from diabolic possession. The New Jerusalem His astonishing qualities of invention, draughtsmanship, and a diabolic ingenuity in sounding the sinister music of decayed souls have never been before assembled under one roof. Promenades of an Impressionist He did not even hang back through dread of what might befall him if he were again recalled, as on a former occasion, by the diabolic arts of his master. In the Days of Chivalry To effect this he employs-- "Some twenty barrels of the dusky grain The secret of whose framing in an hour Of diabolic jollity and mirth Old Roger Bacon wormed from Beelzebub." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Oracles that were not thus absorbed and supported were recognized as existent, but under diabolic control, and to be tolerated, if not patronized, by the representatives of the dominant religion. Elizabethan Demonology He has no spirit of diabolic revelry in crime; no feeling for its delicate artistry; he is under no spell of fascination derived from its horror. Robert Browning By a sort of diabolic modulation the artist conducts our eye from these dizzy angles and granitic convolutions down tortuous and tumultuous staircases that seemingly wind about the axis of eternity. Promenades of an Impressionist I fear him -- yes, I do fear him, I will not deny it -- I fear him for his wickedness, his evil practices, his diabolic cruelty, of which I hear fearful whispers from time to time. In the Days of Chivalry "There, fiend!" said he, with a diabolic grin, as he walked away delighted with the success of his stratagem, "now hesitate which bundle of hay to attack first, until you starve—monster!" Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Indeed, the elimination of the diabolic factor leaves the modern sceptical belief that such apparitions are nothing more than the result of disease, physical or mental. Elizabethan Demonology The Incarnation of God stirs the diabolic powers, the rulers of "this darkness" to excited activity. Our Lady Saint Mary His very name, with its memory of Eugène Sue's romantic rancour—you recall that impossible and diabolic Jesuit Rodin in The Mysteries of Paris?—has been thrown in his teeth. Promenades of an Impressionist I have heard of that wretched boy -- the tool and sport of the old man's evil arts, the victim of the son's diabolic cruelty when he has no other victim to torment. In the Days of Chivalry For long seconds he would pause with one foot held aloft in the attitude of a high-stepping horse, which distorted his dwarfish body into a diabolic convulsion, like Durer's angel of horror. Kimono The two signs by which the "learned physicion" recognized diabolic intervention were: first, the preternatural appearance of the disease from which the patient was suffering; and, secondly, the inefficacy of the remedies applied. Elizabethan Demonology Their diabolic fury implies a concentration of force that must of necessity weaken as it flows out away from the center. Casey Ryan We must go to Gustave Courbet for a like violence of temperament; both men painted con furia; both were capable of debauches in work; Goya could have covered the walls of hell with diabolic frescoes. Promenades of an Impressionist The blacksmith was reputed to be a sort of "hex" or male-witch, and the farmer believed in his diabolic powers and was very much in fear of them. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Bondo Emmins came back to Diver's Bay in one of those long years during which she was looking for him, and that he came scourged by conscience to ask forgiveness of his diabolic vengeance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 In the emotional sphere also there is the throb of evil, felt as diabolic energy and presented as the element in which these characters have their being. Heart of Man Dark the sea was: but I saw him, One great head with goggle eyes, Like a diabolic cherub Flying in those fallen skies. The Wild Knight and Other Poems Despite its prolixity, its unconventional form and what, under other circumstances, would be characterized as almost diabolic impudence and familiarity, my letter, as he said months later when I talked with him, "rang true." A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography In the wars of the next century we do not often find these examples of diabolic atrocity with which the earlier annals were crowded. Primitive Love and Love-Stories He had given himself into her hands—hands that seemed to him diabolic in their play. The Three Sisters And the story had gone too far, was too diabolic in its accuracy, for a flat denial without explanation. Madcap In this half-light the funnel in which we were standing certainly did look a very diabolic and sinister hole. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Professor Marshall faced the piano again and precipitated himself headlong into the diabolic accelerandos of "The Hall of the Mountain-King." The Bent Twig Her amusement was the stock market and she played it cannily and with considerable success with his rather diabolic encouragement. Mary Wollaston The diabolic thing raged through the shut house, knowing that it went unchallenged, that its utmost violence was licensed until the day after the concert. The Three Sisters Pan-Slavism of the military sort, with musketry, bribery and all other diabolic black arts, miscalled government, rests on such a slim foundation that it need be but little apprehended. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 What I want to affirm is that Mr Verloc’s expression was by no means diabolic. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale I have a great talent for compliment, accompanied by a hateful, even a diabolic frankness. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 He believed that most wealth represented nothing more than the superior and diabolic genius of dishonesty. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 In America, the belief in diabolic influence had, in the early colonial period, full control. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom He has many true inventions in the perilous and diabolic; he has many startling nightmares realised. Lay Morals For all I know, the expression of these last may be perfectly diabolic. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale All this without that diabolic aid which is surely to him. Dracula His iconoclasm was the decadence of the social cesspool and the expurgation of money power which he believed was the ne plus ultra of anarchy and the genius of diabolic perfidy. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Conscientious men still linger on who find comfort in holding fast to some shred of the old belief in diabolic possession. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic. The Innocence of Father Brown Then for centuries the cat was looked upon as a diabolic creature, fit company for witches. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Do not be this diabolic instrument of passion and error! Anna St. Ives According to them, He seeks everything for Himself; which is dead against the truth of God, a diabolic slander of God. The Elect Lady The reformed Church in all its branches fully accepted the doctrines of witchcraft and diabolic possession, and developed them still further. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom But every work of art, divine or diabolic, has one indispensable mark—I mean, that the centre of it is simple, however much the fulfilment may be complicated. The Innocence of Father Brown But such pursuits were popularly identified with diabolic agency. Outline of Universal History Accordingly they rejected the Old Testament, and declared that all the world and man's body were of diabolic origin, and that the spirit only was divine. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The instantaneously sedative power of the human fingers, or of a hair, will have, perhaps, reminded them of some sort of sorcery, or of some diabolic art worthy of the great Albert. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 The profundity of theologians and jurists constantly developed new theories as to the modes of diabolic entrance into the "possessed." History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom He hailed the diabolic talent of the artist who had laid bare with such subtle skill the flatulence of his sitter. The Far Horizon He was said to hide behind his anxious manner an acuteness that was diabolic, and to have earned his ill-health by sly dissipations for which he had paid enormous sums. The Woman with the Fan The Puritan emigration to New England took place at a time when the belief in diabolic agency had been hardly called in question, much less shaken. Among My Books First Series Do you think I should be so open with it, if I meant anything very diabolic? Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography But while these cases seemed, in the eye of Science, fatal to the old conception of diabolic influence, the great majority of such epidemics, when unexplained, continued to give strength to the older view. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom It had been painted by a well-known artist whose appreciation of the outward as a revelation of the inward man is slightly diabolic in its completeness. The Far Horizon In this case it would hardly seem possible to exonerate the doer from a charge of wanton malice, diabolic in degree. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur At these "Witches' Sabbaths," as they were called, the Devil himself attended and taught his followers their diabolic arts. Early European History Yes—He came then, and the Babel-tyranny of Rome fell, even as the more fearful, more subtle, and more diabolic tyranny of Mammon shall fall ere long—suicidal, even now crumbling by its innate decay. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography In 1876, at a little town near Amiens, in France, a young woman suffering with all the usual evidences of diabolic possession was brought to the priest. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom The diabolic instinct may have descended to her," said the priests, "and attracts her to the sorceress. Hereward, the Last of the English A candle furnished a dim, flickering light that gave to her hard wicked countenance a diabolic leer that struck a chill to my blood. Blindfolded Such work as this meant the firm establishment of scientific accuracy, and the ultimate elimination of the old theories of witchcraft, diabolic action, and superstition as controlling forces in the world of human affairs. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization If in the eye of God this is justifiable, then a just God might permit a devil to torture us in the cause of diabolic science…. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman This idea of diabolic influence pervaded his conversation, his preaching, his writings, and spread thence to the Lutheran Church in general. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom At night it is customary, a work of darkness which lights up the dark, picturesque, magnificent, with a fitness Tartarean and diabolic. Hereward, the Last of the English The diabolic hostility is open and avowed and He hears the howls and shrieks of the infernals. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers History can add but little to this graphic sketch, although indignant and passionate enemies may dilate on the Corsican's hard-heartedness, his duplicity, his treachery, his falsehood, his arrogance, and his diabolic egotism. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen Gregory VII. a century earlier had suggested that kingly power was of diabolic origin. Henry the Second Especially prejudicial to a true development of medical science among the first Christians was their attribution of disease to diabolic influence. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom It seemed as if all the world were rocking with diabolic laughter—Fate plans such amusing things! Up the Hill and Over Among all that thy books taught thee, they did not open to thee much of the depths of that human heart which thy dogmas taught thee to despise as diabolic. Yeast: a Problem He had seen quickly, guessed with a diabolic shrewdness, yet would remain on the surface, always, of a mystery so violent and so profound. Dragon's blood If Brother Paul had appeared as a spectre in the ighloo, it was plain that he looked upon the white face present at the diabolic rite as dream or devil. The Magnetic North For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom In the wars of the next century we do not often find those examples of diabolic atrocity with which the earlier annals are crowded. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century The company kicked about the poor diabolic writer's head as though it had been a tennis-ball. English Men of Letters: Coleridge A band of huddled converts sang once more, in squealing discords, with an air of sad, compulsory, and diabolic sarcasm. Dragon's blood He raised his voice in a series of blood-curdling shrieks, then dropped it, moaning, whining, then bursting suddenly into diabolic laughter, bellowing, whispering, ventriloquising, with quite extraordinary skill. The Magnetic North This idea of diabolic agency in mental disease had grown luxuriantly in all the Oriental sacred literatures. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Here, then, beyond all doubt, was the diabolic man, clothed in mystery, from No. 29 Ratcliffe Highway. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Let us, by way of example, take a short chapter from the diabolic life of Caligula: In what way did he treat his nearest and tenderest female connections? The Caesars Their heads bobbed up and down in queer scarlet turbans or scarfs, like the flannel nightcaps of so many diabolic invalids. Dragon's blood Why do we admire intellect when it is united with even diabolic disregard of moral laws? More Pages from a Journal A trial was held, and it was noted that, whenever Grandier appeared, the "possessed" screamed, shrieked, and showed every sign of diabolic influence. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Hyder Ali, even his son Tippoo, though so far inferior, and Napoleon, have all benefited by this disposition among ourselves to exaggerate the merit of diabolic enmity. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc There were young writers, who had developed a new technique, and had carried poetic utterance to undreamed of heights; and in this poetry were cryptic allusions, hints of diabolic things. Love's Pilgrimage To have often resisted the diabolic, and at the end to be still resisting it, is for the poor human soldier to have done right well. Problems of Conduct Hamlet meditates on revenge instead of executing it, and his desire, by brooding, becomes diabolic. More Pages from a Journal The great English Reformers, while also accepting very generally the theory of diabolic interference in storms, reproved strongly the baptizing of bells, as the perversion of a sacrament and involving blasphemy. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom It had the diabolic eyes of the Moro set in a shaven ecclesiastical face. Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian They are a breed apart—savage, material-minded, diabolic, unrestrained by fear or love of God, man or devil. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me The heathen gods became devils, and the marvels related of them were supposed to be effected by diabolic agency. The Book of Were-Wolves For answer to that Kagig turned his head and stared sharply at me —then went off into peals of diabolic laughter. The Eye of Zeitoon Naturally, then, throughout the latter half of the seventeenth century we find scattered cases of diabolic possession. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom My dear Baynes, Your printers are the worst species of that diabolic genus I know of. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Yes; but the demon he had heard was of his own imagination; it had a face of Medusa sweetness and the laugh—Only Amabel's rang out so thrillingly false, and with such diabolic triumph. Agatha Webb With the first effusion of blood their diabolic covering vanishes, and they are recognized, to the disgrace of their families. The Book of Were-Wolves Or can it be that you are not yet convinced of our wisdom in ignoring this diabolic attack upon one whose reputation is as dear to us as our own? Dark Hollow Before the laws governing mental health were known, insanity was generally thought to be diabolic possession. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom This luck would not, could not, last—and yet with diabolic persistence he continued to choose the losing cards. The Spoilers Daniel felt that underneath the whole affair there was some diabolic intrigue. The Clique of Gold His horse was prancing and swaying wildly, and the Bishop's transformed features were diabolic. In the Sweet Dry and Dry There was a diabolic coldness in her, too much to bear. Women in Love The exorcisms accomplished so little that popular faith in them grew small, and the main effect of the pilgrimages seemed to be to increase the disorder by subjecting great crowds to the diabolic contagion. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom I smiled with diabolic satisfaction at his coming discomfiture. Rolling Stones In his own denomination internal discord raged over such questions as diabolic pleasures and Apostolic music. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields How her eyes were sparkling with diabolic exultation! Louisa of Prussia and Her Times There was only the inner, individual darkness, sensation within the ego, the obscene religious mystery of ultimate reduction, the mystic frictional activities of diabolic reducing down, disintegrating the vital organic body of life. Women in Love This latter discovery was quite a relief to my mind, for the visitation had a most diabolic savour about it, and we were just beginning to fancy that there was a slight smell of sulphur. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet Trapped by the diabolic humor of his victim into a position both ridiculous and unsafe, he maintained his dignity as well as his presence of mind. Rolling Stones But the fly kept creeping on, and, impelled by a diabolic delight, now penetrated the horse's ear. Henry VIII and His Court Hers was now a diabolic beauty, and when she turned her eyes toward the three republicans, they glistened like dagger- points. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times In her tone, she made the understanding clear—they were of the same kind, he and she, a sort of diabolic freemasonry subsisted between them. Women in Love Your weak side, my diabolic friend, is that you have always been a gull: you take Man at his own valuation. Man and Superman For she often brought home to them mice and birds alive, and with diabolic gentleness would avoid doing them serious hurt so that the cubs might have larger scope to torment them. Wild Animals I Have Known When one thinks of the marvellous scientific ingenuity and skill, directed in a kind of diabolic concentration on the one purpose of slaughter. Never Again! Half believing in her own impostures, she regarded La Corriveau with a feeling akin to worship, who in return for this devotion imparted to her a few secrets of minor importance in her diabolic arts. The Golden Dog Surely if the fact were such, he would, even in rage diabolic, have kept it to himself! Donal Grant, by George MacDonald The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament. Man and Superman These latter were diabolic in the celerity with which they picked out meanings. Active Service Some said that Michel had been permitted to save the child by a diabolic agency which had failed him when he sought to save himself. Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile that, making longitudinal folds on his face, caused it to resemble a leathern mask with a benignantly diabolic expression. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic. Crome Yellow "Isn't there something diabolic and also angelic in a young girl who has never loved, does not love, and perhaps will never love?" The Chouans Ah!" said the bishop, "it was by intuition diabolic, I doubt not, that they took that way. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth She felt her legs give under her, she could not stand up under the diabolic thought of such a crime. The Secret of the Night Neither side ever thought of disputing the reality of the miracles supposed to be performed on the other; but each side considered the miracles of its antagonist to be the work of diabolic agencies. The Unseen World and Other Essays Yes, it would be diabolic when it was finished, Gombauld decided; he wondered what she would think of it. Crome Yellow He was masked beyond guess in the goggles and diabolic garb of the chauffeur. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million A new book of Ecclesiastes, crying, “Vanity of vanity, all is vanity;” the “conclusion of the whole matter” being left out, and the new Ecclesiastes rendered thereby diabolic, instead of like that old one, divine. The Ancien Regime And then with diabolic art he made a feint at wandering to new fields of anecdote. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains Hearts, alas, which everywhere except in the metallurgic and cotton-spinning provinces, have communed with no Reality, or awful Presence of a Fact, godlike or diabolic, in this Universe or this unfathomable Life at all. Latter-Day Pamphlets He had gone unsuspiciously toward it, sniffed and pawed the unaccountable and exciting nose medicine; then "snap!" and he had sprung a dozen feet, with that diabolic smell-thing hanging to his foot. Rolf in the Woods Leach and Johnson were the two particular victims of Wolf Larsen’s diabolic temper, and the look of profound melancholy which had settled on Johnson’s face and in his eyes made my heart bleed. The Sea Wolf You, ye diabolic canaille, what has a Governor much to do with you? Latter-Day Pamphlets Only the excess of it is diabolic; the essence I say is manlike, and even godlike,—a monition sent to poor man by the Maker himself. Latter-Day Pamphlets Not with a diabolic but with a divine hatred. Latter-Day Pamphlets In every human law there must either exist such an aim, or else the law is not a human but a diabolic one. Latter-Day Pamphlets |
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