| 单词 | evil |
| 例句 | For the hungry and worn, who had far to go before life failed, it had an evil look. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "The third and last evil plaguing the village," the Old Man of the Moon said, "is you." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the minister recited the psalm about lying down in green pastures and walking through the shadow of the valley of death and fearing no evil. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Knowing his label provided him with both comfort and courage, he believed that to name an evil was to neutralize if not annihilate it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Nina saw firsthand the undiluted evil of the Nazi killing machine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I’m in two classes with her, and she always gives me the evil eye from afar. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She frowned and gave me an evil look. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I had pictured her smiling as she had smiled last night, cruel and evil. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The Supreme Court shackles the police, compounds confusion in the legislatures of the states, and turns loose murderers and rapists to repeat their evil deeds upon the innocent and law-abiding members of society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He would have spoken some good word of shame, for he was an honest man and only his crying child had forced him to evil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I asked, excited to see it even if it did have an evil moon with fangs. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He will want to kill the human who stared at him: he can’t afford to show fear when his authority is challenged by another evil primate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z White read the evaluator’s psychological study of Hale, but there was some evil that seemed beyond the scope of science. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He thought someone had thrown a rope inside his house for another evil sign, but then it moved! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He listened to the bellows, to the evil hum. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as you never used it, I did not think that the Ring would have any lasting effect on you, not for evil, not at any rate for a very long time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Their conviction of Sula’s evil changed them in accountable yet mysterious ways. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The aesthetic evil of a footnote seems in order just here, I’m afraid. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z As a small, worried child, he hid pennies under a floorboard—a “hoard” to protect his family if “evil times” came. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She felt that the evil of the man’s touch was being seared away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then someone subtly begins calling her GLaDOS, which is the name of the evil computer in the classic Portal games—and if this session wasn’t a travesty before, now it definitely is. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Each time he sucked, there was an evil kind of frying sound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “And kill me too, son of an evil mother. That way I won’t have the eyes to weep for the shame of having raised a monster.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in Ms. Washington’s waiting for class to start, and when Zoey walks in, I brace myself for her evil death stare. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “Good evening,” he said, every inch the gracious host, albeit a sinister, evil, intelligent, and determined one. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “He is Evil. I don’t know how else to describe it. He is Evil, and like all evil, he has enormous power. He tempts. He taunts. And he takes.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “All the peculiar children they kidnapped over the years . . . this is what they were doing to them? I figured they just became hollowgast food. But this . . . this is leagues more evil.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But as we made our way to meet you, an evil beast jumped from the rocks! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Tribesmen think the mirrors ward off evil, Darin said that day. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I gave her the evil eye right back and gathered my things quickly before she had a chance to grab anything else. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z "Now there is only one evil left that plagues the village." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There were a couple long seconds of silence, then, “In the name of Jesus, I remove you evil spirit of rage and send you to the Cross.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When my mother tells the story, this is the point where she pushed herself up on her elbows, giving the midwife’s pale, sweaty face some powerful evil eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z As the Count saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eye-teeth long and pointed; but the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of lion-like disdain. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I’d convinced myself that destroying their ship was all right because they were evil, they were sailing to attack my city, and besides, they couldn’t really be permanendy killed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z If only so you can bear witness to its evil. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Or, at least, an evil one who looked like her real mom. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She shouldered the sack that contained all the dirty linen and the evil ball of hair. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But only evil wights dwell there now, and I will not willingly tell more of them.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The music had gone out of Kino’s head, but now, thinly, slowly, the melody of the morning, the music of evil, of the enemy sounded, but it was faint and weak. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The Nazgûl came again, and as their Dark Lord now grew and put forth his strength, so their voices, which uttered only his will and his malice, were filled with evil and horror. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “We? We humans kill the Overlanders? I know of your world, of the evils that transpire there. But we do not kill for sport!” said Vikus severely. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I still remember when we were children, watching the evil fires dance in that same place,” my mother said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe so I can see her evil stare more clearly. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I thought about my dreams, the evil voice that had spoken from under the ground. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The evil gash on her temple disappeared as if wiped away, the stains of blood nothing more than dried paint. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I don’t know how low someone got to be sunk to think up doing something that evil. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z They associated red with the devil and works of evil; therefore, anyone who wore that color must be guilty of evildoing. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No evil can challenge that cross, and the swirling dust with the devil inside must turn away from you. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Atlas had the same regal expression as Zoe, the same cold proud look in his eyes that Zoe sometimes got when she was mad, though on him it looked a thousand times more evil. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was a taut leer, an evil thing, more threatening than a look of rage. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Do you mean that in the whole world there’s only evil and folly?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She held Coyotito in her arms and sang the song to him, to keep the evil out, and her voice was brave against the threat of the dark music. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take care of the evil in the wind,” she whispered and bent low to kiss my cheek. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With his black leather breeches and jerkin, his hunting knife and his bow and quiver, he might have been Robin Hood’s evil, better-looking brother. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Lots of different ways to pretty up the same old evils.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Mom stares daggers at me, like I said something truly evil. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge looked like he was about to launch into a major speech about the evils of cartoon Dalmatians, but Jason decided he didn’t want to know. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "Have you rescued her? Protected her from evil?" the little one asks, like this is all some fairy-tale adventure. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Does he see something evil inside me that I'm too blind to face? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And I had heard that Ultima could lift the curses laid by brujas, that she could exorcise the evil the witches planted in people to make them sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And I guess Mrs. Menzer must be evil, too, because why else would she fire Mom? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Anything the light touched belonged to the sun gods and the sun gods never allowed any evil to pass through Bali’s borders. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Nausea began to spread through his stomach, warm and oozy and evil. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not stupid. Not stupid at all. It’s hard to conceive of such evil,” I say, wrapping my arms around her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I think about running out so she can’t pull the evil eye on me again, but Hairwoman, my English teacher, is patrolling the hall and I forgot to go to her class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “See what they have done, making a Roman of me. They wish me to be their goddess? Then let them taste their own evil. Kill them, child.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Every day since then on the radio we heard about the need to end the evil and pernicious influences of the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil aura radiating from Tantalus was as strong as any monster I’d ever faced. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet even many people who despised the profession deemed it a necessary evil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But such a belief is contrary to the deepest conviction of the human spirit, that good is stronger than evil. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf’s evil in loco parentis ways. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z As Booth sees it, Lincoln is an evil tyrant who wants to destroy the South and its way of life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he was Sir Will, a brave knight whose job it was to retrieve precious stolen objects from spooky evil wizards. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been a comfort to me for years, and I couldn’t see her as some sort of evil mastermind like everybody else seemed to. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Naomi and Muff are making pineapple upside-down cake,” she said with an evil grin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The city housing inspector was dubbed “See no evil” man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He says that—evil—like it’s something he deals with every day. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Buddy Ray is the evil one,” I said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z "And then you may tell me the second evil." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Five confirmed victims, only five, and Jack the Ripper became the embodiment, forever, of pure evil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Was the power of good and evil the same? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Babulya also told me about an evil possessing spirit! She called it ru’ach tezazit. It’s a bad spirit that gets inside someone and makes them say or do things they would never do.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He strolled off—an easy, good-natured stroll to show he wasn’t concerned that Matt had disturbed his evil game. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The story of how I went twelve rounds with an evil spirit and won. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Rumors are down there, kitchen tables, money exchanged in secret; evil old women, illegal doctors, disgrace and butchery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Haiyi did not think so. When he was told that he himself was the final evil, he bowed his head in shame, and tears began to flow from his eyes.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Now forced to accept that the Elder Wand was real, she maintained that it was an evil object, and that the way Voldemort had taken possession of it was repellent, not to be considered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As with the yin and yang of the Far East and Zoroaster’s dualism of good and evil in the Near East, creation and destruction were intermingled in Hinduism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then I said, “Father said I was never to mention Mr. Shears’s name in our house again and that he was an evil man and maybe that meant he was the person who killed Wellington.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A long-drawn wail came down the wind, like the cry of some evil and lonely creature. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They learn how to change the South without violence, how to not be moved by the evil actions of others, how to walk slowly but with deliberate steps. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “And lechuzas? You want those evil owls climbing all over you while you sleep, pecking your eyes out?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Frodo and Sam got up, rubbing their eyes, like children wakened from an evil dream to find the familiar night still over the world. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then would come the reign of One who was higher even than Odin and beyond the reach of evil— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm able to haul him back onto the horn where we drag ourselves toward the top where the lesser of two evils awaits. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "The evil doctor is going to get away!" Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z ‘He has well repaid my trust; for if Elrond had not yielded to me, neither of you would have set out; and then far more grievous would the evils of this day have been.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But human beings can also do the most terrible and evil and cruel things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the evil one had become flesh like Jesus! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I was about to explain, the only good thing in the box was Hope, and that is why, even though there are many evils in the world, there is still a little hope.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I thought of Lettie, but she always acted like rootwork was some kind of evil, so I didn’t think she would take the pages. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was his hair with which they had worked the evil! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “And perhaps there are those who might think us evil.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z My dad shook his head and said, “There are evil people in the world, Caitlin.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “You did very good down there. You’re all very brave to stand in the face of such evil.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “It’s a charm against evil spirits so I am not afraid of them.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Or what the source of this mysterious evil might be. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The shark paused and stared up at the company with small evil eyes. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “I would fain ask the reader,” Carey demanded, “is this the language of an enemy? Does this deserve railing or reproach? Is it honorable for Jones and Allen to repay evil for good?” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It had been Jonas, as Leader, who saw through him, who sensed the deep evil in the man and insisted on his banishment. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Less for a gentle potion, more for a particularly rough or evil spell.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The sooner he went on, taking his evil destiny with him, the better for these folk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Back in the darkest of days in 1776, Washington had written, “There is one evil I dread, and that is, their spies.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If Matt had become El Patron, then he’d gotten the whole package: wealth, power ... and the evil that created it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no way the evil wizard would ever find him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “The people I lived with. It’s them. I know it’s them.They turned weird, started ... doing things. Saying trees and plants and animals are magic. They left me because they said I was ... evil.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Given the choice between seeing an evil socialist doctor, and admitting to my boyfriend that I believed doctors were evil socialists, I chose to see the doctor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z First, hiding the ball, she gave the stick the evil eye. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘And don't be too gentle! He’s responsible for bringing in these ruffians, and for all the evil they have done.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Thank you and goodbye and be careful of the evil eye. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Evil smell draws out evil fever,” she says, as if telling me a lesson everyone knows. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It felt like all the tubes led to one central place in which something evil sat, stewing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “But Thalia's right. Luke has already betrayed you so many times. He was evil even before Kronos. I don’t want him to hurt you anymore.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Such as can rescue and save and put down evil. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, I wondered if Papa was right, if being with Papa-Nnukwu had made Jaja evil, had made us evil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At least in the temple I would be safe from evil men. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And from those evil heads there came a high shrill cry that echoed in the towering walls before him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Why do we cling to our evil ways? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When someone slipped and said “the word,” a dark, evil cloud seemed to settle over the room, and everyone started feeling uncomfortable. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It comes from peig, a crawling, wicked Indo-European word meaning evil and hostile, the sure makings of a curse. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Other wanderers were rare, and of evil sort: trolls might stray down at times out of the northern valleys of the Misty Mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “They’ve seen the children, too. Just glimpses of them in the woods or at the gate. They say they’re evil spirits.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “You could pass it on to someone, but doing that was like passing on evil, or bad luck, or a bad spirit—the transmission also reflected God's will.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Except for a funny-shaped finger and that evil birthmark, she was free of any normal signs of vulnerability. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Something dark and evil had happened here, she knew, something that she could not begin to understand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But none of these miseries was the true reason the plantations were so evil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “That is Auntie Sombo. She isn’t evil, just shy and a bit stupid,” my friend whispered. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not supposed to talk about it, but yes, I do know where he got it! And it’s evil!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Biting into a tiny sugar-covered cake, I gave each of the girls the evil eye, letting them know Mamá was not a topic that we needed to discuss, not with a perfect stranger like Cecilia. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It looked like a deformed, evil, one-armed space robot. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were entranced, and he could sense the wary, watchful evil outside the brush house; he could feel the dark creeping things waiting for him to go out into the night. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the name of Jesus, I remove you evil spirit of fear and send you to the Cross.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Why she’s mentioning this to The Taker now, though—some part of her is being evil even when she’s trying to be nice, she thinks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Deliver me from evil, now and at the hour of my death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I’ve lumped together into one big sin all the hundreds of times I thought evil of people at Central,” I said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. I believe you are friends and folk worthy of honour, who have no evil purpose. You may go in.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I only wonder what evil one could find it in his heart to rob so good a man.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “And if you truly are a superhero, how will you fight evil?” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn’t a witch after all. Is that supposed to be the lesson of all this? That I should be nice to her?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “It is easy to judge evil unmixed,” replied Gwydion. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, his mother would venture downstairs to lecture him on the evils of selfishness and bad language. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Could it be that I am near the garden where the evil things grow? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She scooped up water to wash the evil taste out her mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, and for the first time, really, I was struck by the bitter, irrevocable truth of it; the evil of what we had done. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z No one had ever suggested to me how to go about removing the evils of racial prejudice, and I had to learn by trial and error. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized the evil Tenorio had found a way to hurt Ultima, and that he would do anything to hurt her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He says the Khmer Rouge government views science, technology, and anything mechanical as evil and therefore must be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I too once passed the Dimrill Gate,’ said Aragorn quietly; ‘but though I also came out again, the memory is very evil. I do not wish to enter Moria a second time.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Rus, the wolf-dog-coyote, sprawled out on the carpet while Calamity Jane gave him the evil eye from the hall. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s a hard thing to admit, even to myself, but I was capable of evil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought the glass of water was to keep evil spirits away,” I said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I knew he loved the part about our being evil spirits. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Faced with two evils—stealing from a living boy, or wishing him dead to take his food guilt-free—I realized I could more easily have the sin of stealing on my conscience. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Lettie went on, “And one of those evil root people. Look at that ugly bracelet. It looks like it has bugs living in it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I knew that Rosie was evil, not evil like a witch, but evil in other ways. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He proves that one person can stand up to evil and make a difference. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The National Party accepted the most hidebound of 1950s cold war ideology and regarded the Soviet Union as the evil empire and communism as the work of the devil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells me that there’s this guy in the building, who he calls Mr. X, who is almost definitely up to something evil. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What called out to him from Guernica was both the terrible tragedy of what had occurred and the enormous power of art to explain and ultimately defeat man’s most evil impulses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “There are evils beyond death,” said his sister. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Then it’s not your fault. Okay? Some really evil people did that.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But Fela understood, except she thought I was trying to strike a deal with the evil one. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was no witch, no wraith blade, no evil corporate brain-thingy that had caused the change in him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But I found nothing in that face but evil. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘You have ridden fast and far, and under shadows of evil in the air, I am told.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “This is a place of shadows and evil!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing else,” he later recalled, “seemed so purely, incomprehensibly evil as the deliberate bombing of women and children.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Isaiah doesn’t say which is evil, butter or honey,” Dad said, grinning as my brothers lugged the white tubs to the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But she was still angry at Pa for having been gone so long, and angrier at Cecile—who she called the “root of all evil.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He has taken Orcs into his service, and Wolf-riders, and evil Men, and he has closed the Gap against us, so that we are likely to be beset both east and west. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The effects of the witchery of the evil thing in his surroundings began to turn away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt him shiver next to me, and I saw him make the sign of the cross to ward off the evil of this forsaken ground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No matter where I stand, I’ll still think mind controlling an entire city of people is evil.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “It was just,” Iphigenia whispered shuddering; “just—yet evil, horrible.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He said: "They used their wits, you see. If you can't beat evil by strength alone, then a little cunning is called for." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me dig this nonsense out, else I’ll be searching that poor child for evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The shadow didn’t feel cold or evil; it felt curious and somehow—pleased. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z ‘I do not think the wood feels evil, whatever tales may say,’ said Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Once the evil man is knocked out, MacGyver smiles and my heart turns to honey. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a private place, a sanctuary, already corrupted by the Capitol’s evil. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was an evil weapon, able to kill both mortals and monsters. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It seemed that the evil power in Mirkwood had been driven out by the White Council only to reappear in greater strength in the old strongholds of Mordor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z That evil sizzling sound of approaching cannonballs filled the air. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Of course you don’t. A superhero is someone with special powers, and he uses those powers to fight the forces of darkness and evil. Like Alfred T. Slipper, who is also Incandesto.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z What evil it saith I do not know; but I trace here a copy of it, lest it fade beyond recall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With their bright innocence I mocked his evil and called him usurper. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They brewed this mixture over their evil fire, and when it was done they drank it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Symbol of Shamash, the patron god of kings, and the guy who had a magical net capable of trapping all sorts of terrible evils. You're very lucky to have such a powerful gift." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She thought it was important that I should realize that though Hitler and the Nazis were evil, there were also ordinary Germans who did not like Hitler. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He knew many histories and legends of long ago, of Elves and Men and the good and evil deeds of the Elder Days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z That he made the mistake of entertaining an evil desire and that desire gave birth to sin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z One of the articles began, “The Population Law is evil.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I hope no heavy snow fells until we have got over the evil ground between this place and the glacier-arm we saw some miles to the west from the ridge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Caroline doesn’t have a racist bone in her body, and she’s not a vandal, or any kind of evil person. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He said he was not afraid because years before a witch doctor gave him a charm against evil spirits. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “O mighty Set, god of evil, we hear and obey.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute Luke answered politely, “A struggle between good and evil for the soul of Nell. I suppose I will have to be God, however.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t make any difference to her, she was so evil in the first place,” Harry shrugged. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Certain numbers were holy or evil, according to the kabbalists—and they looked through the Bible for these numbers and for hidden messages found by scanning through it in various ways. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We’re still cheering inside, but we’re also thinking about six million lives snuffed out by the worst kind of evil the world has ever known. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Uncle Brian made a face like an evil mastermind announcing his plan for world domination. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They drove off in their squad car, and all down the block, drapes fell back to rest, half-opened shades closed like eyes that saw no evil. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Evil dreams and evil waking were blended into a long tunnel of misery, with hope growing ever fainter behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z An evil black moon rising from the undercarriage of a toppled riding mower. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Mark my words, Matthew. If you do not live to see the evil results, your children or their children will suffer. Call it what you will, this stubbornness can lead only to revolution.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Hermes understood what would happen to Luke someday, how he would turn evil. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Bad enough he’d been run out of Atlanta by evil sea gods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “We choose light or we choose darkness. We choose good or we choose evil. We choose the true god or the false.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fairy thought him so evil, she couldn’t even find the words. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z For one moment, Harry saw the evil, flat face illuminated in the sparks dancing on the surface of the potion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z This whole twisted landscape—the dome, pit, or whatever you called it—was the body of the god Tartarus—the most ancient incarnation of evil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The evil smell made Matt’s eyes water, and he could barely focus on the dense yellow sludge on the bottom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And his voice got really loud when he started explaining how, first, he’d have to say a special prayer to deliver me from the evil residing within me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “That tiger was truly evil. When you screamed, I could feel it.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “After nine months, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Now the parents’ joy turned to grief, for the law said that twins were evil and must be killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The big rat’s voice was as foul and evil as his breath. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Ideas about big things, such as the universe, and good and evil, and why things exist in the first place.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In Mercerism, an absolute evil plucked at the threadbare cloak of the tottering, ascending old man, but it was never clear who or what this evil presence was. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The giant’s army was arrayed to Percy’s left and right— centaurs with bull’s horns, the six-armed Earthborn, and evil Cyclopes in scrap-metal armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They will say that he is of hate—a fanatic, a racist—who can only bring evil to the cause for which you struggle! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was well to have a comfort in store on Harriet’s behalf, though it might be wise to let the fancy touch it seldom; for evil in that quarter was at hand. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes they took the shapes of humans, and sometimes of snakes or fish or, if they were bent on evil, crocodiles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When he read a little later, in Psalm 23:4, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,” he knew he would be safe. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In her is shown most vividly the uncertainty between good and evil which is apparent in every one of the divinities. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But at the same time Matt remembered Maria saying that she did know the source of El Patron s transplants: And it’s evil! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he was victor he did not return evil to the Thebans for the evil they had done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The man stared back at him, his face contorted in an evil grimace. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z ‘Alas!’ he said, 'that these evil days should be mine, and should come in my old age instead of that peace which I have earned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They told people to give up their evil ways or follow the devil straight down the path to perdition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There were also abominable creatures haunting the reeds and tussocks that from the sound of them were evil relatives of the cricket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, wrote Esperanza on the next line. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Something—the absence of disaster, threat, in any constant evil—permitted him to forget Jefferson as any place which he had ever seen before, where his life must resume itself. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “An evil spirit could have slipped in through an open window!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Apparently the evil rancher was anxious to break in a new herd. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I sensed something cold and unpleasant—the presence of evil. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But its presence didn’t feel evil, like my demonic math teacher Mrs. Dodds or the Minotaur. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Sergeant Prothero’s sister told Tony as he was leaving the courthouse after sentencing that “Bruce stood for everything that was good in society, and you stand for everything that is evil.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z At Mother’s house I recently found my dusty Complete Emily Dickinson with its margins littered shockingly by my old palindromes: Evil deed live! croaked that other Adah, and I wonder, Which evil was it, exactly? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But now, I would feel evil and slap her around worse than ever, some of the nights when Shorty was away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seen evil, and so I carried the evil within me, and the holy sacraments of confession and the holy eucharist were far away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I admit to you that this occurred because of evil in my heart!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Or what if the gardener’s will is evil?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She carefully takes it in her right hand and sweeps it over my head while she recites a quiet prayer asking God to remove the evil eye and keep me under his protection. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z There was something extra evil about the way that Harp and Gully stole stuff. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She says they’re evil, that I shouldn’t see all that violence. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She said I smelled like “something evil this” and I looked like “something evil that.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Without Roosevelt, Elizebeth was afraid that America would be vulnerable to “evil influences like...the Klan” and homegrown fascism. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Spread to the horizon was an army of monsters—flocks of winged arai, tribes of lumbering Cyclopes, clusters of floating evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And, as I said above, he should not depart from the good if it is possible to do so, but he should know how to enter into evil when forced by necessity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Her evil uncles appeared on a cold early morning, right after Aziz walked into the courtyard and found her mother dead. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The bodies of the Persians and the Spartans piled up, and I couldn’t quite figure out why the Persians were so evil or the Spartans so awesome. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z So it would have been in a poem, surely, if Unferth were a character, good or evil, heroic or not. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard about the evil thing they did to Ultima, the story of Tenorio’s blinding was throughout the camps.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew all about herbs and could brew you either a medicine or a charm—provided you intended no evil with the charm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The monkeys prefer to sleep in a dead tree so that they can see in all directions, keeping watch for humans and other evil predators. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked about for a hiding-place where they could shelter from evil eyes while the light lasted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Tentacles is my term—the Tentacles are the evil tasks that invade my life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The young soldier was holding the burning stick high, making the shadows on his face long and severe, as if his head had been stretched; Jonathan saw him in a new way—powerful and evil. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He believed that the prevailing religions of his time were evil and that neither immortal souls nor immortal gods exist: “Nothing exists, but atoms and the void.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I shook my head hard, as if to shake all the evil stories out of my mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “What kind of legends will your daughters be told? What kinds of charms will you give them to ward off evil?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “The dreams, brother,” she sobbed, “they have worsened. Some terrible evil awaits you.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Or else we could be evil high priestesses who are going to offer him as a human sacrifice on the crocodile altar to—what was that evil god’s name?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All novels, all poetry, are built on the never- ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No more signs; this was the true evil thing! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Minerva says, Mate, don’t listen to evil tongues. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Back then, many superstitious people believed that you got sick because of evil spirits,” Grandpa says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He envisioned Tycho’s domain as a refuge from the evils of the time, as the place where his Cosmic Mystery would be confirmed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Still we shiver at the thought of evil Salome, chew our biscuits slowly. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He wore a black mask and rescued poor people from evil capitalists. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All the dead Champions and mysterious evil powers and this ridiculous competition had made her go mad. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My eyes open wide as I learn of this evil machine, wondering if it is sitting in the woods waiting for us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only person I had ever seen defeat evil where all else had failed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually Massasoit concluded that he possibly should ally with them—compared to the Narragansett, they were the lesser of two evils. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But her pal Anatole found an evil sign outside his hut. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Who rescued Snow White from the evil stepmother? I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I tried to take the friendship further a couple of times, but he didn’t want to join the chess club—he gave me a whole speech on the evils of competition. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In those evil times no one had known, really, what they were doing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z On a night when the moon gazed down like an evil eye, the young prince appeared in Jemmy's chamber. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Now uncertainty was in Kino, and the music of evil throbbed in his head and nearly drove out Juana’s song. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at us and there was an evil glint in her eye. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was your daughters who started the evil!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately, Badenhorst was not evil; his inhumanity had been foisted upon him by an inhuman system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘That is a very interesting remark,’ sneered a voice, softer than the others but more evil. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “So that we may put an end to the evil thing!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “We’re off to fight evil,” said Flora as her father backed the car out of the driveway. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They have shocking, evil, naked faces, and it is nauseating to see their long, nude tails. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there was the Persian eyebrow threader who decided to dole out skin advice while she kept my evil unibrow at bay. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You didn’t come here to say you sorry. I thought maybe you did. You come in here to deliver some of your own evil.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z When they’d learned that Gaea the evil earth goddess had put a bounty on their heads, Leo had wanted to know for how much. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Did you know that in the original version it wasn't an evil stepmother, it was an evil mother? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That crumbling horror, that evil lake, the fungi, the extensive decay! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And maybe it’s not the evil peer pressure my parents worry about after all. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I stuff Rolf’s evil uniform against my lips. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But he had to be practical—she likely had just wanted to have an impassioned discussion about the evils of arranged marriages and controlling parents and was disappointed it wasn’t coming to fruition. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Only the evil was left, like a twisted natural force. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Matt still loved the old man, but there was no question he was evil. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At last a crack had developed in the wall of evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d told her how Meg helped her father escape, and I’d described the first battle with IT, which is this giant, evil brain that wants to control everyone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He wrestled in his spirit and fought down the evil blackness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Upon reflection, it is relatively easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “He has sworn that he will not speak until all of His Grace’s enemies are dead and evil has been driven from the realm.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We dissolved into each other, and we shared a common struggle against the evil within, which fought to repulse Ultima’s magic. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil way I was feeling, I’d’a preferred if she hadn’t given one to Big Rose. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He would lay his hands on my head and cast out the evil thing that had made me say what I had said, that had made me unwelcome in my own family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But tell me, who laid the evil curse?” my mother asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I saw them in Katoptris’s blade. And you heard what Hazel said. The biggest ’ ‘ “The biggest gathering of evil spirits I’ve ever sensed,” ’ Jason recalled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Quincy give him the evil eye when she see him. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I screamed, feeling that if I went out of doors some evil spirit would whisk me away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No, it’s the shape of the bedroom lamp that’s the real evil in the world. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Women do have always his voice above the gabble voice that breathed an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They would answer him that they had been many years without a priest, arranging the business of their souls directly with God, and that they had lost the evil of original sin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had tried to codify the evil uses of might by individuals, so that he might set bounds to them by the impersonal justice of the state. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not know what an evil thing he did when he cut open that watermelon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you’re doing good, it’s often because someone else is doing evil. Follow me?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I tried to hold on to it, but the evil bird was too strong. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Okay. Yes. Let’s say your grandfather was alive, and he was evil.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z With his evil eye blazing down the rifle’s barrel he aimed at my forehead and I heard the shot ring out. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So MacGyver makes booby traps using pulleys and levers that drop coconuts on the evil man’s head. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My toothache had quieted to solemn pain, Momma had obliterated the evil white man, and we were going on a trip to Texarkana, just the two of us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z A wicked king’s wooden wives languishing under an evil wooden spell. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu was vaguely frightened the first time he saw him because he had always imagined that only evil spirits had grass-colored eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They live in evil times and their nature too has much of evil, so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For evil to bend its knees, admitting its guilt, to implore the forgiveness of God, is the hardest thing in the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One evil deed missed is a loss for all eternity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The area felt tainted...like at any second a hundred haints just as evil as Cotton would arise out of the wood and yank our souls to somewhere painful. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I will fear no evil, for you are with me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Of two evils, she chose the one that struck her as the lesser. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, Jack and Sarah journey across the forest, defeat a troll army, rescue the fairy princess, battle the evil hobgoblin king and queen, and return the world to the sunshine. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The Empire raids, jails, and kills for such “crimes,” but teaching a six-year-old her letters isn't evil—not in the minds of my people, the Scholar people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Just something the manticore said, about the Great Stirring. I can’t help but wonder ... if all those ancient powers are waking up, maybe . .. maybe not all of them are evil.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I talk stern as I can: “Now you look a here, Minny, I support you myself fore I let you work for that evil lady.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I was not the one who destroyed what was precious to you. There is real evil in the world, and I am not it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Here’s a rule: Never write a sentence of the form “X not Y because Z,” such as Dave is not evil because he did what he was told. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Deep in its tiny brain a coal of evil began to glow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet’s having some hope of a return? Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The fear of the deafening, evil noise held us prisoners. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Evil will come of that evil, but it is still a long way off, and I will see to it that the worst falls upon my self. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Overhead, a jet plane veered away like a sleek evil bird. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And I sure didn’t want a thief to use Henrietta’s powers for evil purposes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, come on. That’s a evil thought, if ever I heard one.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that why he be so evil—he ain’t never had no mama to love him.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning Ged woke beneath his friend's roof, and while he was still drowsy he felt such wellbeing as if he were in some place wholly defended from evil and harm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Danger, maybe even evil, floated on the air, thick as the scent of fox. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That he was foolish to think he could wage battle against such evil? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Josh used to be just loud but now he’s loud and evil. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I vowed to keep my sisters safe from the evil chupacabras. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z That was the real threat to be dealing with, not some mysterious, inexplicable evil Elena had mentioned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But wasn’t she—that was, Briony the writer—supposed to be so worldly now as to be above such nursery-tale ideas as good and evil? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On my affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He is only stronger; and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The black man in the ghettoes, for instance, has to start self- correcting his own material, moral, and spiritual defects and evils. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the Sheriff of Nottingham’s knights who turn out to be evil robots. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Matt knew that swanky meant something only an evil, rotten, spoiled aristocrat would do. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It was this accursed knife that gave the wound. Few now have the skill in healing to match such evil weapons. But I will do what I can.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Anise would never let anyone forget how Caroline Murphy is as crazy as she is evil, and there’s not much else worse in the world than a crazy, evil girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "I never imagined they would. So be it; they'll have something else to curse the evil monkey demon for." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They are like the work of an evil child. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Just to be evil, I rubbed it in with an insult “I don’t know why your lip is hanging,” I said. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If the crowd could worship the evil judge, just wait until they heard Mom. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He opened his huge mouth and swallowed everything, everything there was, good and evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And besides, if Elena wanted her to be the King’s Champion so badly, then she couldn’t spend all her time hunting down whatever this evil was. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Judge me well,” Taran flung back, “and you would know I scorn to serve an evil traitor!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z As evil as any Mask who spends a lifetime relishing the blood and tears of his victims. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Gabriel floated and spun within the veer, being part of evil, feeling the anguish and loneliness of it, of having been cast out again and again throughout history. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘Whatever it may do, it will be slow, slow to evil, if you keep it with that purpose,’ said Gandalf. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘Because we cannot use it, and what is done with it turns to evil.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The court couldn’t see my father, with his “Good Old Boy” mask, as the evil person he was. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Then they broke the evil bridge and set red flames in the noisome fields and departed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Ay, we still have the power to fight this evil,” she nodded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That evil man threw back his head and laughed, then picked up his cap from his lap and stood to leave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More spilled out of his eyes, ears, and mouth, and the container echoed with their evil, unnaturally loud buzzing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Thalia was great at giving evil looks, what with the punk clothes she always wears—the ripped-up army jacket, black leather pants and chain jewelry, the black eyeliner and those intense blue eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The evil thoughts fled away like shadows from a bonfire. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I did not know why that was evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was years before we realized that his unwieldy rules were designed to protect us from the evil possibilities of the mean-spirited world around us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is a mark of evil things that came in the Great Darkness that they cannot abide the Sun; but Saruman’s Orcs can endure it, even if they hate it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They spit out the evil Pol Pot’s name and swear to each other they will hunt him and his officers down to avenge their suffering. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do I have to bear his evil in me? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Then, How could anyone be evil enough to do this to us? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then she saw me and her eyes bulged with the kind of insane evil you see in horror movies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z From her, the first woman, comes the race of women, who are an evil to men, with a nature to do evil. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Convinced that Jesus had spoken to her directly, she devoted her days to battling the evils of drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Glaucon’s story posed a moral question: could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Other people treated children like lovable but necessary evils. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have seen you in my dreams,” the voice said, sickly sweet and evil, like the smell in the corridors. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The truth in dark things seems as evil as the things themselves just for being true. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z "Blood of my blood," Jhogo said in Dothraki, "this is an evil place, a haunt of ghosts and maegi. See how it drinks the morning sun? Let us go before it drinks us as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That year the monsoon broke early with an evil intensity such as none could remember before. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “See how your evil influence has already spread to your daughter!” exclaimed my uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The Angkar wants to rid Democratic Kampuchea of other races, deemed the source of evil, corruption, and poison, so that people of the true Khmer heritage can rise to power again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His evil eye grew narrow as he grinned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Is Saruman the master or the Great Eye?’ said the evil voice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Enid Simdars embraced the strictures of Christian Science, a faith that taught that the material world and all the evil that attended it were illusory, that the only reality was spiritual. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the third day, the evil day, Mama did not appear at the door to bring in the water Deydey fetched. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Its title is Inkheart because it's about a man whose wicked heart is as black as ink, filled with darkness and evil. I still like the title.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z If this evil was as threatening as Elena made it seem, then how could she possibly defeat it? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Do not accept an evil you can change.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Shall we make our counsels together against evil days, and repair our injuries with such good will that our estates shall both come to fairer flower than ever before?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I knew he wasn’t evil or anything; after all, he'd stopped Hunter from bothering Max last year. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Cold anger made me clench my teeth, ignore the sense of evil growing in the forest, and focus on getting back Eddie’s journal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As they left the holding room to pay the fine, Nathan took one last glance and saw those evil eyes blink and disappear. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z If the gods are finally helpless before evil, men and women must be more so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They had maliciously broken into the laboratory and systematically destroyed it out of pure malice and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the second time I’d dreamed about the evil voice from the pit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe dragons in the demon lands are all as evil as they believe.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least she keeps her word, unlike the Olympians. She always pays her debts—good or evil.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Chineke! Bless the children of my children. Let your eyes follow them away from evil and towards good.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z After ten minutes of polite assistance Ishmael wondered aloud if his DeSoto wasn’t the answer and persisted in this vein for five minutes more before Hisao yielded to it as an unavoidable evil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Imports are defined as evil because they allowed foreign countries a way to invade Cambodia, not just physically but also culturally. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “We are indebted to her forever,” he said, “for saving the life of my brother. Ay, what courage to approach the evil place alone!” he added. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But God, the ultimate goodness, cannot do evil. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to get out in the rain, but my evil saint exerted some kind of pressure on him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Prince Humperdinck was but a child then, and since the only stepmothers he knew were the evil ones from stories, he always called Bella that or “E. S.” for short. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She looked like those evil geniuses who suddenly figure out a plan to conquer the world and can already imagine earth’s population quivering in their grasp. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In his well-trimmed beard and dark master’s robe, he still reminded me of the stereotypical evil magician that appears in so many bad Aturan plays. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was kind of like getting a shot: a necessary evil. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “There’s something evil down that tunnel,” Rachel said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Upstairs curtains at the Black Swan twitched open and I think I glimpsed Isaac Pye in a kite of sunshine, giving us all the evil eye. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z All kinds of evil were still on him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There would be more stories about how poor the brute was; his age; his evil disposition and his latest caper. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z And actually cool when she wasn’t around Sunny, getting contaminated by her best friend’s glow of evil. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Unlike Perry, he was not convinced that a broken mirror meant seven years’ misfortune, or that a young moon if glimpsed through glass portended evil. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Consider: How I needed a comfortable evil to prevent my knowing what I could not bear to know. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The air didn’t smell as evil as before. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been treated like a freak, dragged away from her home in New Orleans to this cold wilderness, and worked like a slave by a merciless evil goddess. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Scruffy, a checkered blue bow bobbing in his fur, prances up to the Four Paws Spa's arched grand entryway, where the Japanese prime minister's cat is secretly being held hostage by the evil Dr. Loofah. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He hated most the feeling that the evil had spread like a plague to himself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His evil laughter trailed after him, until the wind drowned it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The uniform reeked of sweat and a chemical odor that awoke evil memories in Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You just lack perspective. The predator is always a monster to the prey. To the gazelle the lion is a demon. To a mouse, the eagle is evil incarnate.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z How could his little girl, or her fretfulness, be evil? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil demigod was gone - but he had made a lasting impression. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Or an evil corporate disembodied brain thing,” Martin continued. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Folks sometimes do ugly things, Hiram, but that don’t necessarily make them evil. A lot of good folks just make stupid decisions or get themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z God, I don’t even want to think about having to see his stupid evil face. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The priest’s refusal meant the church was taking its stand and that the evil ways of the Trementinas were known to all. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And I said, “Father says that he is an evil man. Do you know why he said that? Is Mr. Shears an evil man?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The head shawl covered the baby, and one end of it came across Juana’s nose to protect her from the evil night air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Both bin Laden and Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” but bin Laden came to see the United States as evil too. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z First there was Luke Castellan, her first crush, who had seen her only as a little sister; then he’d turned evil and decided he liked her—right before he died. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was the Firedrake, most evil of creatures that haunt the burying places of men! Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He just didn’t strike her as an evil, scheming Greek. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Isn’t wine prohibited here?” the boy asked “It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil,” said the alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “To stay. To learn. To undo...the evil...” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "I know she was an enemy, but there was no evil in her." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “What happened? Did you fall off a motorbike belonging to one of your Stanford boyfriends? Or did the evil coach of your track team put a hit out on you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Now that I knew her to have been evil and vicious and rotten I did not hate her any more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I knew the wights had killed people—killed peculiar children, Miss Avocet had said—but the brutality of shooting these animals seemed to exceed even that evil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Whatever you tagged it—a roll call of evil or a litany of character flaws—Laura’s list had pressed into all my dark places. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She was associated with deeds of darkness, the Goddess of the Crossways, which were held to be ghostly places of evil magic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them press their pointed Vulcanoid ears to my bloated belly, and my belly speaks to them in guttural evil growls like Satan himself has purchased a time-share in my intestinal tract. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she saw me, her mouth broke out into that evil scientist’s grin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He flashed back to the last time he’d plunged into a mob of evil spirits, in the House of Hades. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The sound was louder now—a hissing moan that had an almost evil resonance to it—but he didn’t waste time studying it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But after travelling through the Underworld, hearing so many stories of evil and death, a wartime massacre hardly seemed newsworthy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I heard her talking to Tom. She was so—so happy about it. I didn’t know people could be that evil.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sticking out like evil litde pins on a rounded cushion of raw skin were several quills, deeply imbedded. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z What she wanted to say was, “Count Olaf is an evil man,” but she was well mannered. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z So she picked up another one and read in English: “Money is the root of all evil. Look around you and dig deep.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Evil may be endured when our days pass in mourning, heavy-hearted, hard beset, if only sleep reign over nighttime, blanketing the world’s good and evil from our eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have no quarrel with you, Márez!” the evil voice called out, “we only want the witch!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The pile, only a stone’s throw from the house, had a truly evil stink. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As soon as he was old enough to leave the nest, his mother had taken him to see a baited trap in the hotel kitchen and had explained its evils one by one. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z While the congregation recited the Twenty-third Psalm—“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for thou art with me...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In an evil moment the shopman held up the lovely, shimmering folds, and said, “A bargain, I assure, you, ma’am.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, my dad is the all-powerful evil Titan lord who wants to destroy Western Civilization. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She knew their evil purpose and she knew too how she would punish them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z You are innocent until you understand, the priest of the church said, and you will understand good and evil when the communion is placed in your mouth and God fills your body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every deed and intention calls for careful discernment. An evil will can never be God’s will,” she says simply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil,” he says, paraphrasing Matthew 6:13. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She was surrounded by the forces of night, heard but not seen: the gibbering of coyotes and the howling of wolves and the screaming of owls, which were said to carry an evil spirit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And the dark became a huge rat smiling a smile that was evil and sharp. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He put his hands together like an evil villain. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I don't recognize these berries, perhaps they are edible, but I'm guessing this is some evil trick on the part of the Gamemakers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “But you are very young, child. You don’t understand how sometimes evil can seem innocent and harmless. ’Tis dangerous for you to see that woman. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z "Curse you, Dog Squad," the evil villain moans, slumping sideways. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Better not. Nice as Miss Lizzy is, peoples change when they hear ’bout this kind of evil doing.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The air was steeped in evil during those muggy, pestilent days. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “What do you do when your parents are evil?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She did what she could to disappear into America and prayed this country would hide us from the evil that had taken my father. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Take her out of herel The witch will put an evil eye on her!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “In the old days, he committed horrible crimes. He used his gift of sight for evil. Jupiter sent the harpies to plague him. The Argonauts—including your ancestor, by the way—” “The prince of Pylos?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The leaflet denounced the Nazi government and spoke about its evils. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea, nor could he have had, of the limitless inhumanity and evil of this new enemy. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I anticipate rewards for goodness, and wait for the ax of punishment to fall upon evil, in spite of the years I’ve rocked in this cradle of rewarded evils and murdered goodness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Twins are evil,” came the thin voice of the Spirit Medium. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “If you were the evil Dr. Cable, where would you put your prisoners.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I recalled a preacher in Des Moines who had warned folks who had come for a soup supper to give up their evil ways and stay off the path to perdition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Had he found the evil proof on his own, or was he sent by Claudius to destroy the evidence of the foul murder? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If 1 now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He concluded, therefore, that in Christian belief, “the fretfulness of a child is an infinite evil!” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Something evil dwells in this castle...Destroy it... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t even speak of such a thing! You know if a wedding does not take place at the appointed time, some evil is sure to come to the bride.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They had not expected her to come into this place of evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is right and fitting that his daughter pay for his evil deeds.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z People wanted to like him, they wanted to believe him, but he was undependable and self-centered at best, mischievous or evil at worst. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Surely, I thought, this is the epitome of evil: Byron De La Beckwith. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly all Ranofer wanted was to get the goblet back into the chest and himself out of this evil room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "A man hears the whisper of sand in a glass. A man will not sleep until a girl unsays a certain name. Now, evil child." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don’t, and you always do, and that makes you evil.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Isaac, hi, it’s Hazel from Support Group, not your evil ex-girlfriend.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Now it was up to me to contend with whatever evil I had brought upon us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Inside were three silver ingots and a froglike evil, which sat on the ingots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is powerful, but not in the service of evil Yet I would not deceive or cross her,” she said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Yes, and as the apple’s fair outside finally shows its inner ruin, so evil thoughts in time corrupt a man’s features.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Piper couldn’t see what was happening inside the ruins - just the heads of twenty or thirty giants standing in a circle, mumbling and swaying, maybe doing the evil monster version of‘Kumbayah’. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her bad heart floats in her body like an eye, an evil eye, it sees me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘But others may contest your will, when it is turned to madness and evil. Where is your son, Faramir?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And the old man said, “Surely this was a very evil man to be thus hung.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I could not understand this action—the height of evil. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She gave him that evil grin, and crossed the bridge with that walk he'd liked so well, half saunter and half sway. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z No customers were over by the peanut stand where that same old woman from the last visit was giving me the evil eye. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Bill Sikes—a name like a rapier—a real villain with nothing to dilute the evil of him, not even Nancy’s love. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Okay, so maybe evil is a little bit dramatic. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A group of people, including a spider and a being with glowing eyes, confronted a terrifying creature rising out of the sea, their hands outstretched, preventing the evil from advancing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Yeah?” said Gilly to let the evil little dwarf know that she wasn’t interested. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Will tensed his muscles the way the knights in his storybooks would if they’d just caught an evil wizard doing something suspicious. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “But does not evil, like an invisible worm, work inside the fruit, even while the fruit seems fair?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My body shivers as if evil has entered it, making me want to scream, beat my hands against my chest, and pull out my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only a few monsters lurking in this dungeon—a gargoyle, a skeleton, a zombie, some asps, a mummy, and the evil demi-lich Acererak himself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the jockey’s eyes, Alexander saw “an evil gleam.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the two meanest, most evil people I’d ever known and I knew only one of them was going to come out of this alive! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil, like Jeanine ... or power to do good, like what we’re doing. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And before they started up, I gave them my own evil eye, and Fern muffled a “she started it.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah? How do I know you don’t think I’m some evil creature and this is just a plot to get me alone so you can finally kill “Don’t be stupid,” she said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Human beings have done evil things to each other for as long as there’ve been human beings. We also do kind things, too. Rescue a stray dog. Keep an old man company.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Here’s one of Frank’s: No one desires evil. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He felt alone and unprotected, and scraping crickets and shrilling tree frogs and croaking toads seemed to be carrying the melody of evil. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard in his ears the evil music. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z And though he had no staff, and stood on alien ground and evil ground, the domain of a dark power, yet his will prevailed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He was a foul fog, a choking murk of evil vapors, looming and slithering on the ivory floor. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z "Are you kidding? Tina's a monster. She's what would happen if the devil married the wicked witch, and they rolled their baby in a bowl of chopped evil." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A faintness of the body is my familiar, but not the sudden, evil faint of a body infected by horrible surprise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would be faithless if I looked the other way when his son has fallen upon evil days. Still—” Zau’s ragged eyebrows lifted arrogantly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “None of these creatures are good. Not the way we think of good. None are safe. Much of morality is peculiar to mortality. The best creatures here are merely not evil.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “You healed her? But—” “What, you don’t believe I could do something kind for another human? I’m not evil, Elias, no matter what you say.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z You understood that it was better to ride a black horse and dress in black like a personification of evil, so as not to be scoped by a gunman in the night. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Well. Obviously, manslaughter is the lesser of the two evils,” Mr. Anderson said. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It was perfectly believable that the Masks would want to turn their enemy’s son to evil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Aware that in nearby villages women have been hanged as witches for something as simple as showing too much interest in “evil vermin.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "As I said, if it were not for the three evils plaguing the village, this village would indeed be happy." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z So that was the way Set started—Set the god of evil and black magic. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Rats skittered over the rubble, blinking evil red eyes at the harsh sunlight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “What a fool you are, Basta! I’m not talking about children’s magic. I mean the magic of the written word. Nothing is more powerful for good or evil, I do assure you.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Silently the others waited, their eyes glinting in evil anticipation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And you can feel good and go to the mall and go back to being evil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He yielded to the Army because the old wickedness in generation after generation of his race was bound to work out in evil for him too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Find the evil in the castle...But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “If you imagine what it’s like to have your back up against the wall all the time, you might be less likely to assume someone’s stupid and evil.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z If once Odysseus got home those evil men would have a short shrift and a bitter end. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaped back, and the evil blade missed by an inch, cutting a gash in the deck right between my feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “And that evil shaman friend of yours? He won’t be protecting you much longer!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z This was the full measure of civilization’s evils we felt obliged to carry with us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “An African American? Oh, evil! But then it’s this trans kid wearing a skirt. What?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His father’s pale bare head bobbed above the crowds of laborers, an apparition of evil with his red dragon tattoos running up his arms and curling about his neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s bizarre to see his obnoxious charm used for something other than evil. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had drawn a figure of a woman with wild hair and evil eyes and a rope around her neck. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There would be evil women who would lie, cheat, and try to maim me just to get their claws into my sweetheart. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Amari refused to think of Clay any longer, for she knew his evil spirit could never touch the love she was already beginning to feel for the child within her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother said that perfectly good ngangas were sometimes tempted to use their power for evil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even scholars of the time believed insects were creatures that God had not fully formed—inferior, even evil in some way. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Evil, he told himself, evil but highly intelligent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Trina says the word like it’s the evilest thing to ever come out of her mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil, and that no good could come from evil. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Never show your face in it again. Your evil, ugly, beastlike face.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The baby was thirty days old, and we had to be careful about infections, foul breezes, and the evil eye. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “How can this be evil? It wouldn’t make any sense for this to be evil. It’s the world that’s evil, Hatsue,” he added. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Do not keep me from sharing all with you. Evil I share with you is not evil to me. And hear me. Men great of soul can bear the blows of heaven and not flinch.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a glimpse of evil as Collins grinned at me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s true, mijo,” Mamá said, “but some people are blinded by the devil. He plants evil seeds in their hearts.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z But there was an evil feeling in the air, as if things might indeed be passing up and down that eyes could not see. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Like that he’d said, “We are free but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering,” or something like that. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Is this a trap? Are you sending us to another sorceress? Is she evil, like you and your kind?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But once he got started, he seemed to grow and develop almost on his own, and all out of control; until he was more than evil, and at times a lot more than Egyptian. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Their evil is mighty but it can’t stand up to our stories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Or the Ninety-first Psalm: “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And those that were deepest and longest in evil servitude, hating the West, and yet were men proud and bold, in their turn now gathered themselves for a last stand of desperate battle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I know sinister evils lurk in the woods, but they have never crossed that boundary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On that particular day, the game about Marshamosis, the boy pharaoh, and Set, the god of evil, didn’t get very far. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She zeroed in on me and gave me an evil sneer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I willfear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Never to say bad things out loud just in case evil spirits might hear and make them come true. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But, while Jefferson thought of slavery as an evil that he hoped would eventually disappear, he still believed in his own right to buy and sell slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z ‘Are we to abandon him? Must we not seek him first? An evil choice is now before us!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He meets the local villagers and discovers that an evil man with a machine gun has enslaved them, forcing them to grow poppy flowers that he turns into drugs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wept with relief every Sunday as he eluded the evil men and bounded back from each seeming defeat as sweet and gentle as ever. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows that it is not one of the Three, for they have never been lost, and they endure no evil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some evil inside myself pushed out into the trees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Either this girl had faulty taste buds or she really was an odd, evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Who would want to live with me with some evil boy after her and anybody ’round her? Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then I rolled the whole, smooth egg over the patient’s arms and legs and neck and stomach and back and head, to soak up all the evil air. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Like me, he was furious when Sam Carraclough sold Lassie and even more furious when the dog was mistreated by Hynes, the evil kennel man. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Big Ma had heard all the spite and evil going on and emerged from her room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z ‘If it is a worse road than the Redhorn Gate, then it must be evil indeed,’ said Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He had no idea how he was to destroy this evil. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “But you don’t have to be scared. It’s not haunted with evil things.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You found and defeated the evil Cain was bringing into the world. And now you’re the King’s Champion. You did as I asked.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “He said in the last days evil would abound,” said Sister Price. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And then, if she won, she’d go about finding this evil. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My eyes flicked to the backpack on the dresser—only for a second, but Gum Baby saw, and an evil smirk crossed her face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The only sure way to send the evil thing packing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If the plants in somebody’s garden suddenly withered or became infested with mites and aphids, the owner of that garden had a tendency to blame Cleofes Apodaca’s evil eye. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just another day, fighting the world’s evil forces. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His sweating horse pranced nervously at the edge of the bank while Tenorio’s evil eye searched the brush for me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, but his thoughts were evil—but tonight he did not care. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What a strange name for the character we attribute as the root of all evil. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her hand to her belly as she spoke, and the men were ashamed before her and went out one by one, for they were not evil men except when they starved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Not believing in God doesn’t make June evil. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “It may be so. There is much evil in the world.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “But if the good guys kill, what’s the difference between them and the evil people?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Allen quickly became committed to SNCC’s nonviolent ideals: always meet hatred with love, and strive to eliminate evil, not destroy the evildoer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The evil inside of me woke and crackled like lightning. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor ended the conversation very simply: he threatened to use Mjollnir to shut Loki’s evil mouth for good and send him to Hel, all the way to the hall of the dead. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But Benji wondered if she would actually be happy to see them fail, like a truly evil villain. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z These voyages worked much evil as well as much good. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She said I had to pray for that evil white man, pray every day for twenty-one days, asking God to forgive him and teach him right. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘That is but a part, for I have forgotten much. It is long and sad, for it tells how sorrow came upon Lothlórien, Lórien of the Blossom, when the Dwarves awakened evil in the mountains.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Our favorite story is “The Princess Who Could Not Cry,” about a princess who is placed under an evil spell and forgets how to cry. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z When he’d seen those evil centaurs and Cyclopes, it had seemed so wrong, so backward, that he thought his head would explode. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To counteract any evil result of that bad conjunction he walked quickly past the ranch house, through the chicken yard, through the vegetable patch, until he came at last to the brush line. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z From the very first day, Father saw Dr. Lange for the manipulative and evil human being he was. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When he saw the evil sign it sent him singing like a canary, because our chicken house is where he sleeps. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She spat on the doorknob twice, a ritual that, she once told me, protected the innocent and kept all evil spirits away, including the police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Witchery, you can be sure. She and that servant—that base laundry maid—are surely conspiring in some evil,” growls Durufle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “And Lot said unto the sinners who crowded at his door, I pray ye, brethren, do not do so wickedly! For the sinners of Sodom pressed their evil will against the entrance to his household.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “One did not see the evil for the beauty,” he said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil behind the abductions of people and animals and the pillaging of their homes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, a spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The evil he started went on after his death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil of daily life here is indescribable, and if this is civilization then it is beyond the capacity of my smallish brain to imagine the evil of a place like Natzweiler-Struthof. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And if the approacher happened to have evil in his heart, that great voice would give him pause if he did not know Charley’s basically pacific and diplomatic nature. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth gave me the evil eye, but I guess she could tell I wasn’t going to change my mind. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z If something can be stated of one thing, then the opposite can be stated of its opposite: if war is an evil, then it follows that peace is a good. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A demigod was never supposed to leave her weapon behind, but Piper was fed up with evil visions. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That night Hanako felt a little evil because she was thinking about how different she was instead of thinking about her schoolwork. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Greater Jungle was an evil place, and it could not be trusted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Plainly she was possessed of some fierce evil that would enter these men if they touched her, or me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we unite and work together, we can and will bring down this evil system. We can defeat the whites. Unity is strength.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The gashes seemed to have burned into him like evil coals; the blackness had spread and his arm looked like a burnt tree. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘Few now remember them,’ Tom murmured, ‘yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z According to them, we were evil children, spoiled rotten and selfish. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Ultima cried triumphantly and with clean linen she swept up the evil, living ball of hair. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It still echoed sorrowfully, searchingly, but other voices accompanied it, voices of pleasure and sorrow, good and evil voices, laughing and lamenting voices, hundreds of voices, thousands of voices. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I never learned what became of the bottle, that evidence of Claudius's evil, and I never saw my father again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I actually thought for a moment that we could cast spells, could turn people into frogs or rabbits, to punish the evil and reward the good. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t remember the last time I’d eaten the evil fruit. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He hated the evil that lived in his body, and he feared it, as he feared and hated the lions of lust and longing that prowled the defenseless city of his mind. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It was Ultima burning the evil load of the sack exactly where the three witches had danced when my uncle saw them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z More monsters kept appearing - karpoi grain spirits swirling out of the grass, gryphons diving from the sky, lumpy clay humanoids that made Jason think of evil Play-Doh men. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe that in this wide beauty there roamed three souls trapped to do evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Proof of this possibly evil, or at least cantankerous connection, would come just a year later. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ralph needed to know what his limits were, and his impulses, what evil and what good he had it in his soul and hands to fashion. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “We do not fear your red queen or her god. Let her send what spells she will. The prayers of godly men will shield us against evil.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t sleep much, and when I did, I dreamed evil. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Of course, not all dragons are evil, as I later discovered the demons think they are, for they can be good to you as well as bad. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He had that evil face that Mama’s boyfriend had right before he grabbed up that brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Ishmael argued at length about this, asserting that Cod could not possibly view their love as something wrong or evil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The crier soon came, leading that man of song whom the Muse cherished; by her gift he knew the good of life, and evil—for she who lent him sweetness made him blind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "You would have to rid the village of its three evils," the Old Man of the Moon said, "before you could be called a great hero." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z An evil voice had whispered that it might be a punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s an unpleasant chorus of clicking, probably from some evil type of insect, coming from the eleven-to-twelve-o’clock wedge. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The more evil I saw that this man had in him, the more angry I became. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “You stop that, you evil gal!” she shouted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z El Patron loved him, but he was evil. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her death was serving to overthrow a great evil. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Your evil bird has blinded me!” he cried. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The humans resulting, he knew, would be, as they became lighter, and weaker, progressively also more susceptible to wickedness and evil. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z No head raise, evil glare, or paw swat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And if you like someone a lot, is it really so evil to follow your heart? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "I've got a funny feeling that something evil is waiting for me up there, Otis. It's a bad house, full of misery and sin. He's still there, you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z An evil presence seemed afoot, and my skin prickled as if touched by invisible ghosts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Wax in our ears—standard procedure when battling evil sirens. Now, throw down your weapons and turn around slowly so I can bind your hands.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Men of Númenor were settled far and wide on the shores and seaward regions of the Great Lands, but for the most part they fell into evils and follies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “This need fer coffee is an evil hold on me, Matt,” she told her husband on the morning after the last of the coffee grounds had been boiled until they were worthless. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I have known and owned mean, ugly-natured cars which would have done this thing out of pure evil and malice, but not Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Aunt Loma came in, carrying Campbell Junior, and patted my shoulder like she was forgiving me for doing evil. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “As for the dragon, I knew his name. The evil thing, the shadow that hunts me, has no name.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He was big, and tough; an evil rat with ragged fur and curved, jagged teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He made the ancient sign of warding off evil - three fingers thrust out from the heart - and the ghost of Beryl Grace disappeared with a soft hiss, like a sigh of relief. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “It is an evil thing that you cannot go on learning,” he said. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z And he squeezed his eyes shut to block out the fox’s evil stare. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," Reagan ordered the largest peacetime military buildup ever. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The evil goddess of Discord, Eris, was naturally not popular in Olympus, and when the gods gave a banquet they were apt to leave her out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone else gets to carve theirs,” I said, pointing to all the other kids who were busy scratching out big evil eyes and teeth with their unsharp baby knives. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d go on with his sermon for too long, five minutes or more, preaching about the evils of hate and reminding me how hate had hurt folks back in our old home, the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The city had such an evil reputation that the Thompson submachine gun was better known as a “Chicago typewriter.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was an obvious evil and most of the games were operated by Chinese. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She wondered how the sun could shine so brightly on this land of evil people. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z After Jocasta’s death and all the evils that came with it, Oedipus lived on in Thebes while his children were growing up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Together isn’t quite the word for an evil and beautiful team, ruining people and enjoying it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And then he will frown and say that it is an evil thing, a slap in the faces of the gods, that the son of Thutra the goldsmith should be a stonecutter’s apprentice. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was the face of a girl who knew that no evil could undo her, and who could laugh, surely, as his mother did not laugh now. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Such acts may seem insignificant given the scale of the evil in those years, but, in fact, they were anything but. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Worries about the evils of alcohol were as old as the birth of the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Worse still, he met evil in me—selfishness, anger, ruthlessness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “You see, friends,” he said, “that before the new, clean world I gave you is seven hours old, a force of evil has already entered it; waked and brought hither by this son of Adam.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He was there many years, thinking, meditating, singing his strange songs, listening to the birds, learning from peasant women how to heal sickness with grasses and herbs, to write amulets, to drive out evil spirits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Ash Being’s evil eyes stared back at Nathan from the man’s shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don’t care whose it is, and what about, ’specially if they can make it sound like evil.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Yeah, I had some pretty evil thoughts about telling Charlie's real secret—about the pervert in the white Chrysler—but I reminded myself that the high road is paved with positivity. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He believes the rainbow is a sign from God and that comets portend evil. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She wanted the evil against which their mother prayed to overtake him one day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “What kinds of lullabies will I sing at night? What kinds of legends will my daughter be told? What kinds of charms will I give her to ward off evil?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “He did not strike you as an evil personality.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a boy at the table giving me an evil look. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z About whether they were there at all, and if they were, whether they were as evil as the governess in The Turn of the Screw thought. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In our game, he was an evil space pirate, and we were the half-robot half-human rebels who were trying to save the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He looked at them from an immense distance, seeming to weigh truth, justice, evil and the affairs of men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s been injured by human hands, so it will be wary. But don’t be fooled by its meekness. Its heart is pure evil. There is no humanity left in him.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I tried to shake the words away with “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for behold, thou art with me...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Is a fishing rod evil because it catches someone’s dinner? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “I can’t make sense of your . . . innocence. In a ruthless world I find innocence more a puzzle than evil.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Ama’s eyes glittered widely in the gloom, and her hands were moving together in a repetitive gesture of finger on thumb, finger on thumb, to ward off danger by confusing the evil spirits. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z For the hobbits each day, each mile, was more bitter than the one before, as their strength lessened and the land became more evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I don’t give those evil kids no second chances. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The evil, jiggly-chinned thief is plotting to blow up the world, and I am the only hope to unlock the drawer in time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “A friend of Sapo is a friend of mine,” I said, and Blanca shot me an evil look, then pointedly clasped her rounded belly. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “I didn’t start World War Three. I just got possessed by an evil spirit. That’s a relief!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I dreamed me some fierce, evil dreams when I finally slept. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nelson wouldn’t say what the evil sign was, just that it was a dreaded kibaazu sign of a bad curse put on Anatole. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z How could I condemn the evil landlords of the old society? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was quite late he murmured something, went to a closet, and drew forth an evil weapon, a long yellowish tube ending in a bellows and a trigger. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something so incarnately evil in the man’s expression that Ben looked toward his father for assurance that they were indeed supposed to be there. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know you speak of crimes and evil deeds. But I believe that such dire thoughts are unfitting for the Prince of Denmark and my husband.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She bore herself with dignity, and although she was very small she was ready to do battle with all the terrible evil about which I had just heard. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The animals sense this bad business and stay clear of it—just as we have stayed clear of those evil rocks.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And so a great evil of this world will be removed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Did you decide about Caliban yet? Still believe that he is completely evil?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z ‘But evil or good we will await it here.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The whole lot of them have been in Slytherin; he’s always boasting about it. They could easily be Slytherin’s descendants. His father’s definitely evil enough.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Booth will be the South’s hero and slay the evil Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She was confirmed again in her view that evil was complicated and misleading. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The inheritance of evil descended to them in full force. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother Baxter said, “Ritie and junior, you didn’t hear a thing. I never want to hear this situation nor that evil man’s name mentioned in my house again. I mean that.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoking evil wasn’t invented in Prophet Muhammad’s days—if it had been, I believe he would have banned it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Spoken like a couple of spoiled brats,” Juanita said, giving them the evil eye. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “And they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And the year before, when his girlfriend dumped him, he was just pure evil to live with for a while. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z After battling through the underground temple of Hades, the last thing Jason wanted was to deal with more evil spirits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Either he must go down the hill into the desert lands and lightless cities of the dead, or he must step across the wall back into life, where the formless evil thing waited for him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z An evil idea came over me—so evil it made me shiver as I smiled—and I sidled across to the table. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Their swollen abdomens seemed to glow with an evil, slow-murdering phosphorescence; their antennae drooped like wilted lettuce. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he had begun to write down lists of all the world’s evils, as if he were building up an army of words to fight some heavenly battle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There had been no evil to mar that propitious night, because she had listened; there had been no voice of evil; no screech owl had quaveringly disturbed the stillness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He fell asleep early, only to find his nights disturbed by evil dreams. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence eventually accepted the patenting of scientific inventions as a necessary evil. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I described my dreams, and the feeling I’d had on the beach, that momentary breath of evil that had seemed to stop the world, and made Ares back off from killing me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘You need not follow him. I know of no evil you have done to me. You can have rest and food here for a while, until you are stronger and can go your own ways.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The wrist was swollen and a bit discolored, but what horrified me was a tiny, evil burn on the underside of the forearm: a cigarette burn, gouged deep and ugly in the flesh. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “The bag will absorb the evil that clings to you,” the santero says. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "What of women? Is it not the same for them? Are you good or evil, my lady?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As if this period was suddenly the new episode of a soap opera, and the long-thought-dead evil twin had just sauntered back into town. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The evil mouth of the black bass was open and red. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One accepted the good or the evil with humility, for life was a mystery, and questions were not for the lowly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The balconies of the old buildings hung over my head like dark branches in an allegorical forest of evil. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You have spoken more than enough, Uglúk,’ sneered the evil voice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I guess the evil school shooters didn’t listen in English class because they did not Get the meaning of that book at all. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Boldly I called out to old men who resembled my father, but they hurried away from me, crossing themselves as if to ward off something evil. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Many creatures sensed the approach of the slithering evil, or scented its dry, musty, deathlike odor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “He was an evil man, but the music would have broken your heart.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A still, small voice reminded me to return good for evil, reminded me that my plans for the future do not include fisticuffs or expulsion. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s a rare magic. You can do evil things with a magic like that.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Luck of some sort came when my maternal grandmother—who had been away in the Shangaan Bantustan attending a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits from a raving mad relative—came back unexpectedly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We say it to keep someone from catching the evil eye.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The prosecutor argued that Herbert was not just tragically misguided and reckless; he was evil. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nico stared at the canals, as if wondering what new and interesting forms of evil spirits might be lurking there. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The explosion took out a whole legion of Kronos’s evil meanies as soon as the first harpy went flush. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Once given up, it shall not come to you again. Will you exchange it for an evil cauldron you intend only to destroy?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z That the Party was the eternal guardian of the weak, a dedicated sect doing evil that good might come, sacrificing its own happiness to that of others. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There it was, in a clearing of flat stone — the evil animal was pacing back and forth as if it were waiting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “Well, how about we forget the evil scarf for now?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I see her giving Addie the evil oculus every morning as Addie stands there, silent as dandruff and every bit as annoying. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers are in Iraq to kill Saddam Hussein, who’s evil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “And when her cursed, evil silence polluted our swamp, I thought God had sent me a sacrifice to make myself, one last example of the evil that hides itself which I could destroy and purify.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Or a lighter ship,” he suggests, burning me an evil eye. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Deedee said they called her evil. Maybe the virus or whatever it is has made them a lot worse.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “You seem to think I’m involved in something positively evil,” he said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In second grade, at the age of seven, we were considered by the Church to have reached the age of reason; we were supposed capable of distinguishing good from evil. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the evil sister managed to grab my shirt and rip it almost into shreds. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mack and the boys balanced on the scales of good and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the voice sang out again—and I realized it was coming from the abandoned church—I told myself that a church was an unlikely place for evil spirits to abide. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “If you spill salt, you have to throw some over your left shoulder to appease the evil spirits. No big deal.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z True, Vera was his reason for dreaming all this up, but whatever evil deed had been committed, something good was coming out of it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Some evil befell him surely, for he was an honorable servant. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Not once did they feel the sense of present evil that had assailed them before the attack in the dell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Though of iron, the cauldron seemed alive, grim and brooding with ancient evil. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z "The evil Dr. Loofah is climbing into the helicopter! He has the prime minister's cat and puppy!" Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Heaven forbid! That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z One evil mastermind that you can stop to make everything okay. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The monster just gave him that evil grin. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Trying to unravel the evil of the dark, brooding centuries of slavery and oppression, the book identifies too many villains and not enough heroes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They are the really evil people, making money out of the suffering of thousands of live animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Now you soak a while, child. When the water goes down the drain, it will take away all that white man’s evil with it.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He set down every evil thought he had and renounced it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It must have lifted people from the mundane, but also justified all sorts of evil. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z For more than two years, he had been spreading filthy rumors about her evil ways to add to the stories that the Romans already knew. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the tales Lola told him about evil three-headed monkeys that thrived in the darkness, or her stories of bad children who were plucked up by birds in the dead of night. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “You want him to be evil, is that it?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Children of the dark, children of evil! Your mother has been humiliated! Come to me now, come back home. Punish these insolent girls! Unleash your wrath upon them! Make them suffer! Avenge my wounded pride!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Hesiod, not much later than the Odyssey if at all, says of a man who does evil to the suppliant and the stranger, or who wrongs orphan children, “with that man Zeus is angry.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It looks like a Harry Potter cover except there’s a Ben-looking wizard in the center and he’s hiding behind a demolished wall as evil wizards search for him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z God had made that, for the town to bend to evil ends. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Shayla Green stood at the top of the line, an evil smirk growing across her pretty brown face. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z For many people in this world were not who they claimed to be, and evil dwelled where you least expected it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I felt a twinge of anxiety, but I knew rubbing elbows with the nobility was something of a necessary evil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I’m on the thin side of evil and trying not to break through.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise of battle will be furious; the Einherjar, Odin’s noble warriors, are locked in pitched battle with the evil dead, Loki’s troops. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Do we correctly understand that you now do not think that all whites are evil?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The scar on his face made him look almost evil in the torchlight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “No, bad people are always bad. And racists are evil.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It was the only good the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind’s sole comfort in misfortune. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Its name was Darkness, so did that mean it was evil? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I had dwelt so long upon Claudius’s evil that I believed I knew what his next step would be. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Only later did she understand that the evil had not appeared for the first time that night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “You shall rule and name all these creatures, and do justice among them, and protect them from their enemies when enemies arise. And enemies will arise, for there is an evil Witch in this world.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It was as though she were possessed by some evil spirit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were a wealthy Jew, you were a vampire, a conniving evil sucking the blood of the common people. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And on the evil side, it had also been about slavery. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t like it, if that’s what you mean, but White Deer says that ‘hate’ is so strong a word that I ought to use it only for evil.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Fratricide . . . my lord, this is evil, unthinkable . . . please, listen to me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I know most gunters cling to the absurd notion that IOI is evil. And that the Sixers are ruthless corporate drones with no honor and no respect for the ‘true spirit’ of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It looks to me to be the most evil door in the world. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I blame it on the evil Ximena Chin, who is negatively influencing you! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I decided the latter was the lesser of evils, so I went downstairs to have what would likely be the strangest meal of my life while dressed like a clown without makeup. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In my mind, a train of ghostlike figures flitted in the corridors of Elsinore, followed by the figure of Claudius, cruelly bent upon his evil course. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Or My goodness, I had no idea I was so evil looking. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z That was poor little me, suddenly a diplomat’s wife on the edge of the forest prime evil, wearing my Dior gown and long black gloves to embassy parties in Brazzaville, French Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The main thing is that the kids triumph over evil and that Bryce and Aurora both fall asleep. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Thomas couldn’t imagine why that one word would be stamped on the beetle blade, unless for the purpose of announcing to the Gladers that it was evil. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Witches made you do evil things without your will or even memory. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m a simple man, you see,” he said, “and that’s exactly what I do. All systems are evil. All governments are evil. Not just a trifle evil. Monstrously evil.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The evil spell is broken, and the little ragged girl and her poor mother are given a nice house next to the castle where they live happily ever after. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She would have been exorcised to cast out the evil spirit, and if after many trials that did not work, she would have been burned as a witch for the good of the community. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The genies were the spirits of good and evil. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But in their triumph they did not stop to think that this death, too, like all the others, would surely bring evil in its train. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It may have been out of taste, but that gave me an opportunity, and I used it, to preach them a quick little sermon on America’s racism, and its evils. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had sent out the men of might to rescue the oppressed and to straighten evil —to put down the individual might of barons, just as he had put down the might of kings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What if he managed to turn him evil? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Elnora’s words on that occasion came to me: Turn away, lest you tempt evil Should I turn away and forget the sight? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They said that evil still crept out of the ruins of the Witch Kingdom—and that old women with iron teeth still wandered the lonely roads in the mountain passes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The beach was on an island where an evil mad scientist was developing a laser beam that could blast satellites out of the sky. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On that day, she had followed the sickness inside and determined to do battle with the evil spirit of the disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Wow, she can use her cuteness for evil, thought Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z So for him to say No one desires evil is about more than just challenging the obvious fact that plenty of people desire evil. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “But there’s another way to forget evil,” Black Dog said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I peer over my left shoulder, then my right, for groups of evil kids pointing at me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Could I have told him some stories that would have changed his evil heart? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z They acquitted Orestes, and with the words of acquittal the spirit of evil which had haunted his house for so long was banished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So they took her into the house where evil happened—next door to all the sweet families. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z His predecessor, being a less well-balanced man, came to an evil end as shall be reported, but Alfred has triumphed over his environment and has brought his environment up with him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Eyes bloodshot, face wrinkled in anger, breathing heavily—to Thomas, he suddenly looked evil. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I will not have evil in my house.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It hurled itself on Tenorio, and the sharp talons gouged out one eye from the face of the evil man. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Had any of you gone to Mose Wright’s house with evil intent, would you have given your name? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Not for fun, but—you know. Self-defense. Battling evil. Protecting Gotham City.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But finally he changed, as what is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his arm around the younger boy's shoulder, as if he wanted to protect him from all that was evil in the world. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The next thing upon which Mrs. Dodson cast her evil eye was comic books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But if Leo had escaped from an evil sorceress’s lair, why did he seem so sad? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We’ve passed it dozens of times, daring each other to touch it, but the night bloats its evil. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But by night, they put on white sheets and masks, carried fiery crosses, and did lots of evil things to our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Luke had been twisted and evil long before Kronos possessed him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The final fruits of evil have spilled their deadly seeds. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But Wang Lung said stoutly, “I have never had any good from that old man in heaven, yet. Incense or no incense, he is the same in evil. Let us go and see the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I guess he’d hooked her up with some methadone and taken her straight to Ted, who’d been quick to drive out her evil, forgive her sins and usher Jesus into her heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “It’s going to take time, I know it will, but you have to find the evil in this character. I know that’s a strong word, but think about what he has done.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z To one he said, “I think they have gone south along the coast to escape the evil that was on them.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z But he wouldn’t even have to, that was the evil thing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Two grey trunks rubbed each other with an evil squeaking that no one had noticed by day. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They seemed to be carved out of huge blocks of stone, immovable, and yet they were aware: some dreadful spirit of evil vigilance abode in them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The nails in it were supposed to kill the evil jumbi. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Tats doesn’t follow, and I wonder how real she is in my life because I don’t care that she sits there, shooting me a steady, evil glare. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She didn’t agree with the popular arguments for slavery but saw it as a necessary evil given the obvious intellectual deficiencies of the African tribe. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the last battle between good and evil they will fight on the side of the gods and die with them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not really the Dimwood. There’s no evil hobgoblin king here.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “It is a thing of evil,” Taran said, “and has brought nothing but evil. Now, at the last, I fear it has defeated us.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Parts of the surface are on fire, others emit evil- looking clouds of vapor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Bobby initially agreed to cooperate, but with the explicit caveat that the film was to be a dissertation on the evils of the United States, not about his personal life or about chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He said passionately: “Lady or damsel, what that thou be, in an evil time bare ye a bow; the devil made you a shooter!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The mask glinted, and he held the evil weapon in his hands, considering it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound was getting louder, a muttering, evil voice from far, far below us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If this were true, then wars were not calamities into which amiable innocents were led by evil men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z True, my continued existence could make her life miserable, but misery is the lesser of two evils. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Even though they lived here, in this concrete desert, tonight they would go home, walking the streets of Spanish Harlem fearing no evil, for the Lord was with them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Because there’s more good than evil in the world and we’re surrounded by what she calls “opportunities for joy.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The fen was full of evil things that feared the light. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z All through this, Mr. Blake'd been firing us this evil stare. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Children sent out to herd goats were snapped up by evil traders, loaded onto camels and taken to far cities where they suffered horribly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “I do not want the knowledge of this evil!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “For them, at least, it is over. They are safe. Safe from the thousand evils of the everyday. Safe from the pains of an unjust fate.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But then his sneer turned to a smirk, an evil grin, and I knew what was coming. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Percy remembered his dream of the dark chamber, the evil buzzing voice of the monster called Her Ladyship. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And some said: ‘They are Elvish wights. Let them go where they belong, into the dark places, and never return. The times are evil enough.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “My dear pullets,” replied Orddu, “you still don’t understand, do you? Evil? Why, bless your little thumping hearts, we aren’t evil.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z His dad had been crazy and destructive and if he was honest, downright evil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The name, so closely associated with Mary’s death, was one that was never mentioned at home and was perhaps more evil to Jethro by the very fact that it was so carefully shunned. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think they’re all dead. But it’s not like the Nazis had a monopoly on evil.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He was talking about the curved backdrop with the evil moon. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She was to tell him that violent as Achilles was, he was not really evil, but one who would treat properly a suppliant. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The more evil air a person had, the more my body turned into a limp rag afterward. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Piper’s blade, Hazel’s magical senses and Annabeth’s instincts all agreed - the answer lay here in Ithaca, at the ancient palace of Odysseus, where a horde of evil spirits had gathered to await Gaia’s orders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “He chose to leave them. He chose a different identity, just like you, and became something else. Only you chose this ... this evil.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Their crime was bad enough, but the lies proved an evil that not even the whip could remove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Turn from arrogance. Commit yourself to God, become a monk, be as pure as you can be. Every day of your life fight the evil of the Devil.’ The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “That evil soaks into the soil. Some say it steeps and gets stronger. Maybe this isn’t the place. Maybe Gloria and I should have kept going after Virginia.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "The dwarf, the evil counselor, the twisted little monkey demon. I'm all that stands between them and chaos." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A corno looks like a tiny chili pepper, but it’s a small, twisted red horn, meant to ward off the evil eye and any curses to your manliness. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “You think you have something we want?” the old evil asked through Fox. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And perhaps it was not evil I saw but merely the way of all hearts when fear has stripped off the husk of kind pretensions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It is believed that evil spirits easily get jealous when they hear a child being complimented, and they may come and take away the child to the other world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought he had one of those falsely innocent little faces that are such an aid to evil boys. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When he thought of it coming out of the black depths that way, coming out of the darkness like something evil, his breath came in tight little jerks. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the things she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had seen physical manifestations of evil, and had been visited by the Lord Jesus Christ, like the prophets of old, like Joseph Smith had been in this very grove. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From the first day of their meeting the old man clung to him like an evil genius. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This creature, this evil goddess, had ruined their lives. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I believe there is something good for every evil, that every time there’s a bad person, God sends a good one. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Now the darkness was closing in on his family; now the evil music filled the night, hung over the mangroves, skirled in the wave beat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He, Unferth, knew better, knew that good and evil were locked in such an endless contest that the death of just one of the powers of darkness was of no significance whatsoever. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that long ago that I’d referred to my nemesis as an annoying evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Neither the high, evil witch nor her familiar. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to live in that moment—free of monsters and gods and evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It would have been easier to see her through the gauze, but instead I looked down on the stark face that seemed suddenly so empty and evil. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Papá,” I asked after awhile, “why is there evil in the world?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "All right, daddy, you don't have to jump evil on me, here it is; now will you see me?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He fetched a bottle of something dark and evil looking and began pouring her a tumbler full. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her ideas of good and evil are split so clearly into one side or the other. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z "When the gods are gone, the evil ghosts feast by night. Such places are best shunned. It is known." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “No. Actually they are good to eat—the Romans liked them a great deal—but people avoid them as a rule because they are so easily confused with their evil twin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It sickens me to think that such an evil man can feel pity. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Hex overload. It’s what happens when someone uses too much evil magic. They start to look like an evil monstruo.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Pa’s tales were often about the Buddhist gods and their dragons coming down to Earth to fight evil and protect people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So this evil game went on and on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The infidels had an evil look about them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the episode is about some evil people plotting to blow up Kunu Yaku, and his assignment is to find the bomb and save us all. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He shut his eyes and slipped back into evil dreams. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I could not understand why Narciso, who did good in trying to help Ultima, had lost his life; and why Tenorio, who was evil and had taken a life, was free and unpunished. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Amulets warding against the evil eye girded her arms and neck. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Kronos could influence people with dreams and trick them, but I didn’t see how he could physically overcome Artemis if he was still like a pile of evil bark mulch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Another swears it was a mirage, some sort of hallucination, possibly caused by evil emanations surrounding 803 Oriole Street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z White folks, she felt, were implicitly evil toward blacks, yet she forced us to go to white schools to get the best education. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, he was not lying; his own triumph had outrun him; he had builded even better in evil than even he could have hoped. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z That is a terrible, evil thing to do. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A demon can be the ghost of a dead person, but he can also be a supernatural creature who can use his great powers for good as well as for evil, just like the dragons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z How she could ward off the malocchio, the evil eye, with a prayer and the dip of her pinkie into a bowl of water sprinkled with a few drops of olive oil. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The only reason she had lasted this long, as Tendai knew from evil experience, was because the She Elephant was drunk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z So he joked around with the children, telling them monstrous tales, making himself into an evil, scary being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z ‘And now may I make a right choice, and change the evil fate of this unhappy day!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She says religious people are all twisted and evil and manipulative and just want money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Word was that underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets and nothing was safe—not even the dead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Think of all the trouble it saves,” the man explained, and his face looked as if he’d be grinning an evil grin—if he could grin at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, Esperanza had written in her book on the land of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just staring out the window and looking evil. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z You do not need to be delivered from evil. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave him the evil eye and chewed angrily on a sporkful of salad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Knobbed and pitted with corruption was her age-old hide, but ever thickened from within with layer on layer of evil growth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Still the chuckle, almost evil in its quiet mockery. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The evil Clyde has in vengeance given me a route that is a “White Elephant,” a term which he once applied to me during the course of one of our business conferences. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a scapular with the images worn away by sweat, and on her right wrist the fang of a carnivorous animal mounted on a backing of copper as an amulet against the evil eye. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He said again there was an evil presence in my room, that he couldn’t stay another night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He told her that it was important to spray the ground now so all those evil weeds wouldn’t have a chance to get started. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “I want to hear about the evil creatures. What’s out there?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But Kino’s hand had closed tightly on the pearl again, and he was glancing about suspiciously, for the evil song was in his ears, shrilling against the music of the pearl. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z After another long report about the evil of the Youns, she lines us up single file across from the dummies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Such evil must be avoided, they felt, and precautions must naturally be taken to protect themselves from it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “She called me evil!” said Ximena, wiping tears from her face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t want Allah to “bum my brain” as I felt the brain of my brother Reginald had been burned for harboring evil thoughts about Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear Juana whispering the old magic again, and he could hear the evil music of the enemy. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z When Frank blacked out, and awakened to discover that he had killed his mother’s attackers, he had also removed the evil from the murder. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She looked like she had an evil hangover and there were black circles under her eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Doctorita will grin her evil grin, knowing she got away with murder. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Jehovah’s Witnesses took the Bible as the sole rule of faith and believed in a coming Armageddon between good and evil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And I also wondered, why doesn’t the priest fight against the evil of the brujas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the narrow valley, now almost on a level with his eyes, the walls of the evil city stood, and its cavernous gate, shaped like an open mouth with gleaming teeth, was gaping wide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were strong like warriors, and they defeated the evil beings in a long and mighty battle. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I throw them on the floor and lay down, a room away from Viola and all her meaningless, evil quiet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z For an instant he could not believe such beauty concealed the evil of which he had been warned. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z But he did insist, in nonnegotiable language, that it was “a necessary evil.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the white queen brought nothing but misery and perfidy to the black people, and if she was a chief she was an evil chief. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To be alone was his desire, for he feared the evil he might do or say unwittingly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And then darkness spread over the page, and with the darkness came the music of evil again, and Kino stirred in his sleep; and when he stirred, Juana’s eyes opened in the darkness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught a quick glimpse of sliding scales and an evil eye, maybe a fang. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He knew only the torment of dread, and the certainty that he must go ahead and do what he had set out to do: hunt down the evil, follow his terror to its source. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He could smell witches by their evil thoughts, and it was useless to lie to him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please don’t get started on the evils of the Pilgrims,” moaned Johnny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But they sounded evil, the way she hurled and spat the words out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you stopped believing in God,” he went on, “did you stop believing in good and evil?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?” said Black, with a terribly fury in his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Under Leon’s steady gaze, Bailey had stopped stroking his cheek, even though a pink welt had appeared, like an evil stain spreading on his flesh. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But if she was evil, why was I still alive? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His fingers ached to rip it off; it was an evil and black charm which would surely bring him death now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The chaplain did not approve of Captain Black and found it difficult not to wish him evil. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere, looking out from the shadow, I seemed to see the high lights of the Count’s evil face, the ridge of the nose, the red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Annabeth had always admired Luke, the former head counselor for Hermes who had betrayed us and joined the evil Titan Lord Kronos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew in my heart that goodness had been murdered and that a reign of evil had begun at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When I was a foul, vicious convict, so evil that other convicts had called me Satan, this man had rescued me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our privilege smacked of evil and mystery whereas theirs came in recognizable panty hose packages and candy wrappers and vacuum cleaner bags and Kleenex boxes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A sachet of magic powders to ward off the evil eye when I go to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “She has thrown her face into the eastward-flowing stream. Her ancestral spirit is lost forever. The person you see is just decayed flesh, evil, rotted to the bone.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “See how being with a heathen has changed them, has taught them evil?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “You have had the evil chance, my friend,” he said. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But while the Bottle Trees were guards, making sure evil spirits like Uncle C didn’t escape, the Tree of Power seemed like it wanted to protect you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The words that came into his head were “and with something evil,” but Finn didn’t like those words. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “She was the gatekeeper. It was up to her to keep out evil, but she welcomed it in!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Brown did not end Jim Crow; a mass movement had to emerge first—one that aimed to create a new public consensus opposed to the evils of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The holy blood itself is seen as purifying: purging the evil, the weak and the sinful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Of course, everyone is like, da da da, evil corporations, oh they’re so had, we all say that, and we all know they control everything. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Twig had insisted on dressing as an evil witch/candy cane hybrid for Halloween, even though nobody really celebrates Halloween in France, and Twig’s mom said she was being embarrassing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the midst of evil you want to be a good man. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But somehow their differences don’t matter when they can unite in their shared hatred of Stu Papadopolis and his gang of evil trolls. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At a distance, the war between East and West—between communism and democracy—might have seemed like a simple choice between good and evil, black and white. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe she doesn’t want to swim,” Lanetta Gainer says innocently, but that doesn’t stop Maricela from giving her the evil eye. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I drifted at last into uneasy sleep, and dreamt many evil dreams, and in one I saw a shadowy figure with no face creeping into our hut and bearing away the ten ollocks of rice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In many families, it was young children who were sent to the saloon for the takeout beer, a practice that particularly outraged those who regarded the saloon as a den of evil. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She was an evil woman from a scary old story, kind of like the witch from Hansel and Gretel, but worse, because she supposedly lived around here. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z “He is an evil man,” she announced that evening when she returned to the House of Black and White. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. B’s words might have been blunt, but she hadn’t said it like the way I always called Tamika an annoying evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college- age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Whoever did this has no value for human life, and whatever statement they’re trying to make is lost by their evil actions.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Her sharp claws found flesh because the evil laughter of the coyotes changed to cries of pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Delaware. Do you think Mrs. Baker looks like an evil genius?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But if someone had done something really evil—like spread cholera, for instance—wouldn’t that person be punished? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the light of the next day, I tried to tell myself that I had only imagined the great evil of the scene the night before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “At the end, he’s sorry. He’s just really, really sorry about everything, and that’s enough. Everyone forgives him. Shakespeare lets Leontes be redeemed even though he did all that evil stuff.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I would that I could make myself devour raw your flesh for the evil you have brought upon me.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll still think delivering your sister to be prodded and executed is evil!” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The queen most certainly was a witch and could very well have been on her way to great evil. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z And while he has done cruel, evil things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Something evil dwells in this castle, something wicked enough to make the stars quake. Its malice echoes into all worlds,” the queen went on. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “To think that all this peaceful beauty should hide such cold evil,” he breathed wonderingly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “We know a cow died to provide them, but we don’t like to think about it. We pretend they came out of the pantry. Well, the villagers pretend the evil baby was born dead.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Matt. I’m sure Saint Francis wouldn’t have agreed with him. You aren’t evil, only ...” “Only what?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘This is the lawn of Parth Galen: a fair place in the summer days of old. Let us hope that no evil has yet come here.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There was something else, something inherently evil had drifted into my wakeful consciousness, a bad dream of some kind—a warning, perhaps. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "The first evil," the Old Man said, "is the Bashe snake. It lives underneath the Black Bridge. When a man or beast passes him, he swallows it whole." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But as time passed and the game progressed, Set’s face hardened and cracked into a wicked leer, and it became clear that his strange, sunken, formless body was the very shape of evil. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X was still stiffly addressing me as “Sir!” and my notebook contained almost nothing but Black Muslim philosophy, praise of Mr. Muhammad, and the “evils” of “the white devil. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was holding the side of the bed, his thin fingers clutching the wood tightly as if he were afraid to slip back into the evil spell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In each of their evil eyes, I saw the reflection of the fire from the cross that was burning on my aunt’s lawn. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “This is crazy. How can this be for real? Somebody sent us here. Somebody evil.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Rafik said, “I would be like Superman. I would fight crime and evil forces and no one would even see me.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All of the neighbors hoped that sudden wealth would not turn Kino’s head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Its face had rearranged itself into the expression Conor recognized as the evil grin. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop imagining being strapped to a table while a cabal of evil doctors removed my soul. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But the evil thing is inside, not out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The bronze sword expanded, gleaming in the darkness, and the evil voice seemed to falter, just for a moment, before resuming its chant. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “No resolution. Not enough good. Not enough evil.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Laughter came from somewhere under the earth, and a voice so deep and evil it turned my blood to ice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “That she is evil and powerful I know myself. Let it rest.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t give him anything,” said Fred, with another evil grin. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Because I knew the thoughts of my prey, I could pass over the innocent and pursue only the evil. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I have dreamed of it. And even if I had not, I would know it still, for I can sense the evil in it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z "He acts as a beast would, blindly. He's at the mercy of his own evil, and hardly knows what he does." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z More distraught than I’d ever seen him, which surprised me, because Erma had seemed to have some sort of an evil hold over Dad, and I thought he’d be relieved to be free of it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Accusing someone of being evil isn’t how you treat someone who wants to help. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Upon hearing me, the night turns black with evil as the wind howls and a thunderstorm cracks its lightning whips above us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In this evil hole they cowered, hoping in its shadow to escape the attention of the Eye. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Slowly, we dragged the ammo cans closer to Bobby Jorgenson’s bunker, and this, plus the moon, gave a sense of approaching peril, the slow belly-down crawl of evil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the mourners, representing Hale, wore a mask to hide his face of evil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Ultima did not seem to fear him, nor the evil powers of his three daughters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was not wise to mention the names of witches without warding off their evil with the sign of the holy cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes. There’s spiritual evil as well. Take more’n an oak shutter to keep that out.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And he read us passages from The Lord of the Rings, in which the two tiny hobbits, Frodo and Sam, are taken by the evil Gollum into the lair of the giant spider, Shelob. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z My mother says I was born on an evil day and prays for me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z For William, who had dreaded the coming of evil times ever since he was a small child, it was like watching a nightmare become real. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “And being a kid isn’t so bad. Except when you’re being tortured by an evil billionaire.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z ‘These are evil tidings,’ said Celeborn, ‘the most evil that have been spoken here in long years full of grievous deeds.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then it was gone, and its evil was left imprinted on my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His face—Luke’s face—seemed like a mask, unnatural and lit from behind by some evil power. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z You will become everything you hate—evil, merciless, cruel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But equally pervasive, it seemed, was the credulity of evil. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We will finish the work of Your Majesty’s great ancestor King Degravaunt, killing most of the goblins and burning the world free of evil forever. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Under her breath Juana repeated an ancient magic to guard against such evil, and on top of that she muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to say something, to yell that I was sorry, that I thought R.C. was evil and messed up, but they were too far to hear by then. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I was the root of all evil, Cassie said. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the garments of these two evil men—time-stamped, yes, with the fashions of the Prophet’s time—encased hardened hearts. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She gets the basics, of course—but in her black-and-white world, kids are either nice or evil. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I imagined the lion’s eyes on me like the eyes of an evil man, and felt my own flesh being eaten. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The one where the man wants his lover dead rather than have her face the evil that awaits her in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My father started for the door but Téllez leaped in his way and shouted, “No! Do not go! The evil is out there!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess the evil school shooters didn’t listen in English class because they did not Get the meaning of that book at all. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh God! my soul groaned and I thought that it would burst and I would die huddled against the evil house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That night she stole out of the house and sped along the dark path to the ship, where they were rejoicing in their good fortune with no thought of evil. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark things that were driven out in the year of the Dragon’s fall have returned in greater numbers, and Mirkwood is again an evil place, save where our realm is maintained. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Everything was horrible, people were evil, life was terrible. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Then Mini kissed her stiff parents, hugged her immobile brother, and went outside, prepared to face down whatever evil she was destined to defeat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I must have known my body was being used for something evil, and I fought it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z According to Octavian, this was ongoing proof of Cleopatra’s evil power over Mark Antony. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z As she lay awake, she felt numb with the pressure of the evil things that had happened to her in so short a time. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z His mother had worked long hours at the post office the last few years, a necessary evil in order to keep the bills paid. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Our remote ancestors followed the game, moved with the food supply, and fled from evil weather, from ice and the changing seasons. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I am reminded of another girl, one who had seen all the evil the Capitol had to offer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I willfear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Actually, Mr. Mancini says that people are secretly calling it an ajusticiámiento, which means bringing to justice, the way criminals have to face the consequences of their evil deeds. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They began by burying their dead in the graveyard at the foot of the volcano, which had miraculously escaped the wave of lava that had run down the sides of the evil mountain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Kino awakened, with the evil music pulsing in him, and he lay in the darkness with his ears alert. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Through endless blobs of ghostly black smoke he sped, the hanging smut wafting against the smooth plexiglass nose of the ship like an evil, damp, sooty vapor against his cheeks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Like dust devils, those evil ones passed quickly through my life. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z "In a peaceful village like this, it is hard to conceive of true evil." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was making them wait, drawing out the tension, reveling in their misery, savoring his evil victory. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Seven shivered at the thought of another evil witch being out there somewhere, but she couldn’t worry about that now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And that would endanger everyone, even if lights and guards and evil judges didn’t. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Then, because the book is a tragedy, Heathcliff becomes what they think of him, you know? He becomes a brute. The evil in him comes out.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Its blade glinted with an evil gray-and-gold light where the human steel had been melded with celestial bronze. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But no, it was the Pastor’s guide to my salvation, and he was using it to battle evil. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “But at least his evil didn’t involve the widespread manipulation of an entire faction and the systematic murder of every political leader we have.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z We all were violent in our disturbances; but once ejected, the meat’s evil influences seem to have passed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But that was months after he disappeared, and by then her uncles had already done their evil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He wasn’t letting evil prevail by watching and doing nothing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “He left the village to rid it of its last evil,” Amah continued, “and reformed, lived a life of peace, and then, at last, was a great hero.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Well, if I’m evil, maybe you should leave me locked up.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Oh, the music of evil sang loud in Kino’s head now, it sang with the whine of heat and with the dry ringing of snake rattles. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The teacher’s voice changed until it was cold and evil, echoing from the depths of a great chasm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Trey gives an evil laugh and throws his legs across the couch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Caputo was still pacing and coughing, giving us the evil eye and warning us that if we crossed into the no-go zone of the penthouse suite, he would have us removed from the apartment. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “That there are in the world such evil men! It tries one’s faith. The poor mother. My heart aches for her.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z And then as I got deeper into my own life of evil, I saw the white man’s morals with my own eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “As an Anansesem carried the Story Box into the heart of evil, against my wishes...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Witches knew that many footprints meant a funeral, and they stole bodies for their own evil purposes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to explain about the accidents, about his bad luck, but each time Pastor Tom cut him off, called it evil superstition. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But then, when I was the personification of evil, I was going through it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Zoe gave Thalia one more evil look, then left to oversee things. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z King Arthur only had to deal with plague, famine, and evil knights. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Indeed I did, Father Abbot. My badger senses told me right off that these were very bad and evil rats.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It made me feel like us three were on some kind of important journey to save America from evil. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He was the force of evil, of all evil for all time. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘The evil of Sauron cannot be wholly cured, nor made as if it had not been. But to such days we are doomed. Let us now go on with the journey we have begun!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There, choosing a gap between the watchers, he passed like an evil shadow out into the night, down the slope and away westward towards the river that flowed out of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Or maybe he was back in his devil’s den, making a note in his log of evil deeds: first day of summer, trapped Virgil Salinas in a well. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z ‘It is a red dawn. Strange things await us by the eaves of the forest. Good or evil, I do not know; but we are called. Awake!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Those who supported slavery and Jim Crow, he argued, typically were not bad or evil people; they were just blind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The dim phantom said only this in answer: “Of him I may not tell thee in this discourse, alive or dead. And empty words are evil.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed an unwarrantable interference, something that held his lovely capacity for evil behind bars. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she gave us what I can only describe as an evil grin. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z It had come with Ultima, and as men brought evil to our hills the owl had hovered over us, protecting us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The hopeless suffering of his people made in him a madness, a wild and evil feeling of destruction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The unrighteous speak evil of things they understand not and shall perish in their own corruption!” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was the trickiest, sneakiest, most evil combat style she knew. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fact, George and Florah became so terrified they could not sleep, and my mother had to reassure them by saying that our ancestral spirits would protect us against any evil. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boo said you could protect us from evil; we hope he wasn’t being...deceitful?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I call the gendarmes. They are coming. I smell that rotten flesh. I know you kill the child and keep it with you for evil.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Brother Wolf, you have done much evil so that all folk are your enemy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t believe in an evil god that could be persuaded to put a curse on somebody. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Who, then, is to say with authority where the root of so much anguish and evil lies? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z So we ran through layups and three-on-three weave drills and free throws and pick and rolls, and then the evil Wellpinit five came running out of the visitors’ locker room. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Popped out of his stupor by relief that his mother was no longer an evil pinching stranger, Otto leaped and put his arms around my neck, pulling close and staring intensely back at Bouain. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “About that cyclorama you ordered? The one with the evil moon?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Principle is sure to win—injustice and evil have no power back of them for power belongs to good,” Paul wrote in a letter to her sister, explaining the campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His predecessor, being a less well-balanced man, came to an evil end as shall be reported, but Alfred has triumphed over his environment and has brought his environment up with him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cecilia has called upon evil to plague you,” Teresita proclaimed, putting her hands over three of the cards on the table before us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then the man laughed thickly and he said, “It is only play and is she not my sister? Can a man do any evil with his sister?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The PSF was an enormous man, the kind you’d expect to play an evil giant in a movie, or a villain in a cartoon. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Like the bluebells in Tomlinson’s haunting essay “The Lost Wood,” they were “expecting no evil” as they reoccupied their familiar territories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After a period in which the Western world had enjoyed order, tranquility, unity, and oneness with its True God and Trinity, there appeared winds of change which spelled evil days ahead. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who would do such an evil act to a noble Holy Being? Him, I tell you! Him!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Abnegation was just as broken as the other factions, but its evils were less obvious, cloaked as they were in the guise of selflessness. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She thinks I am “sweet and loving and peaceful”? So Zola tells me a story about a fearsome battle between angels and evil beings. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I had thought I would have some revelation of specific evil. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z "An evil dude like Iggy Lee, we were lucky to get out of there alive." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The bounty was evil to the old men at seal camp, for it encouraged killing for money, rather than need. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not as wrong as hiding from my crimes for two thousand years. Genius does not excuse evil, Percy. My time-has come. I must face my punishment.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “And now he doesn’t. We changed an evil we saw in the world.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The cause the forces of good are fighting to defend against the forces of evil is hopeless. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It meant something like “disappeared” or “vanished,” and carried a hint of evil or danger. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After her illness and her evil dreams Faye was quiet and depressed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As always the black people looked at evil stony-eyed and let it run. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Those relationships were the real evil of the sugar plantation: A master could do anything he wanted, and a slave could not resist. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She would have to choose the lesser evil. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And depicted on the nuns’ cartoon placards as bringing all his evil to bear on the temptation of nicely dressed boys and girls. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a claw over his heart and pushed outward—an ancient gesture for warding off evil. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dimple smiled to herself, an evil thought taking root as the boy brought out the tray of lemonade and set it down on a table near where she and Rishi were standing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly evil isn’t punching people or even hating them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I used to look at my master’s face to see if it were sad or fierce; but I could not remember the time when it had been so uniformly clear of clouds or evil feelings. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Really eat? Oh ... Stoo ... and ...” He cast about for something English for the evil river to eat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It looks like little Caroline Murphy really is as crazy as she is evil. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z All that she did of evil and of good was done for him alone, and in the end, all the reward she got was that he turned traitor to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Kill us if you choose, you evil hags!” he cried. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Amari thought about it and realized that what had happened to her really was one drop of kindness in this huge sea of evil that surrounded them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Mom, it’s okay. No one gave me the evil eye. I’m good.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Are you going to let the sun strike me? How evil of you!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t have no evil of my own.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “She just understood something you didn’t. That it’s not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life you’re giving away, it’s just evil.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Chocolate dripped down the sides of his mouth and made him look evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Why hadn’t he at least warned Luke, or tried to raise him better so he wouldn’t turn evil? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Bobby Cherry might have been behind bars, but he represented a network of evil and hatred in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I consider that Therese may be deluded, for who would accuse her of such an evil as witchcraft? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I had to get home before the storm got any worse, but something held me at the gate of the evil women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope he isn’t around when I have to run that maze, thought Ralph, darting around the fishbowl, trying to avoid that evil eye. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Do not speak any more. In the morning we will sell the pearl, and then the evil will be gone, and only the good remain. Now hush, my wife.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Between Alyssa and me, I am the lesser of two evils behind the wheel. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Is that what got you so upset? It is a strong surah, but it’s not describing you, silly girl. You weren’t being evil or trying to spread rumors about Emily.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Once evils are recognized ahead of time, they may be easily cured; but if you wait for them to come upon you, the medicine will be too late, because the disease will have become incurable. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In the Dark Ages my parents would have sent for an exorcist, because I was clearly possessed by evil spirits, or maybe even the Devil himself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “They threw out the body on the way. And you, do you carry this evil blot on your soul as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is an evil Witch abroad in my new land of Narnia. Tell these good Beasts how she came here.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “That devil is up to evil, I must warn la Grande!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He told no one what he did all day and Mrs. Lapham was convinced that he had taken to, or was about to take to, ‘evil ways.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking a bit baffled, Sam said nothing, but continued to give Enoch the evil eye. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the world opened up for her like one of her imperial tulips and revealed its evil yellow pistil. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The king was evil and made a bloody massacre of a thousand lives before he got to Scheherazade. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The evil emotion in the room almost choked me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z More than ever he hated Gebu and his heavy fist, and the evil thing he had done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I should have felt evil; by Aunt Lydia’s lights, I was evil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the evil one to accuse her of such. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil for we are always with you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Therefore, to state it in another, more accurate way, I became, during my fourteenth year, for the first time in my life, afraid—afraid of the evil within me and afraid of the evil without. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Some stores which had nothing to gain from the children neither locked them out nor gave them anything save a profane lecture on the evils of begging. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hospital, she pinned a tiny onyx badge on his diaper to guard against the evil eye. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As tiny as it was, this extra-small package of fire, poison, and evil would be much harder to kill than a large, bulky lizard. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She avoided looking at it, as if it were the malocchio, the evil eye, out to curse her worse than she already is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I made a three-fingered claw over my heart and pushed outward—an ancient gesture Grover had once taught me for warding off evil. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet I had a feeling that something was trying to rise from the abyss, something huge and evil. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “You are an evil girl! All these days we have put a roof over your head and fed you. This is how you repay us, with selfishness.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The fourth one had a stripe at an angle and was evil. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was the first thing that happened today. Then I go into the locker room and all the guys are giving me the evil eye because I blew the game, right?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neither one of you appears to be having much fun on your holiday. You could have stayed in the halls of academe and looked evil.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They come from nowhere, made by the heat of hell, they carry with them the evil spirit of a devil, they lift sand and papers in their path. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If Jerome had told the truth, and fiends had pink eyes and pale skin and evil, wrinkled hearts, then these men and women surrounding William now were, without any question, fiends. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The air wafting out smelled sickly sweet and somehow evil. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He felt the evil coagulating about him, and he was helpless to protect himself. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I had seen them speer at the fellow, and put out their twa fingers when they saw him, to guard against the evil eye. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z By then it’s too late, for once the wizard’s evil is inside your body, it controls you forever. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The eye filmed over again as the snake carried on with whatever evil vision it was dreaming. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At twenty years of age the mold of my life was set, was hardening into a pattern, a pattern that was neither good nor evil, neither right nor wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What foolish thing was he doing, walking like this under an open sky, with a beautiful man child for any evil spirit passing by chance through the air to see! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The sharpened cane I used when I thought an evil spirit was chasing me and Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “You rotten loathsome slime! If you come near my family, I’ll rip that evil eye of yours right out of your face!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Shadows slipped toward it, as if it were a black hole of pure evil. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the science fiction movie, he had biceps as thick as fireplace logs and used them to swat off evil droids. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Lord of Light, preserve us from this evil,” they prayed, led by the deep voice of Ser Godry the Giant- slayer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then Cora fixed her with the evil eye and the girl knew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z ‘Ah well, whatever evil was afoot is over now, I hope; or else it is beyond our reach at present,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright’s evil twin,” said Wednesday. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Then Du Bois tore into Washington for the older man’s lack of a spiritual counterbalance to “the evils of Get and Grab.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z How could he know that this old man had invented him, made him up out of paper and ink, made up his face, his knife, his evil nature? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to make evil stronger, but how could I keep that from happening? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We are speaking of the collective white man’s cruelties, and evils, and greeds, that have seen him act like a devil toward the non-white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So at least his death would put an end to the evil he had loosed by living. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I wanted him to leave this evil place and help Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But by their fearsome wills he kept his throne in dearest Thebes, all through his evil days, while she descended to the place of Death, god of the locked and iron door. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If she were so evil, would she have helped Fig and me out with such a large donation? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was enough to make us all run away as fast as we could, up the hill without looking back, for fear of the evil Cecilia had set upon us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But the evil was all about, hidden behind the brush fence, crouched beside the house in the shadow, hovering in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Any deity who demanded them was thereby proved to be evil, and, as the poet Euripides said, “If gods do evil then they are not gods.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "It takes an evil nose to smell the devil." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Chiron’s dad was Kronos, the evil Titan Lord himself. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s right,” said Gabriel, “to talk evil about nobody. The Word tell me it ain’t right to hold nobody up to scorn.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw me and a flash of evil genius lit up his dull mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazel might have plunged into a mysterious fantasy woods after an evil witch with a pack of wolves at her disposal, but at least she’d brought a compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Only when he passed in front of Ultima did he glance up, and in that swift glance his evil eye vowed his revenge on Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there were the rumors about the evil things happening on the Agua Negra ranch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right! The good bees sting the evil drones to death. But we don’t want to go quite that far,” said Jorge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The factions are evil. They cannot be restored. I would sooner see us all destroyed.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He felt the certainty of evil ahead and of evil following; but he said nothing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was not a man of violence, but had no choice but to use force against evil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a special book that tells what happened when an evil man named Haman tried to kill off all the Jews in Persia—even the Persian queen, a young Jewish woman named Esther. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Stregoni benefci: An Italian vampire, said to be on the side of goodness, and a mortal enemy of all evil vampires. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Anyway, it looked great perched on a little shelf just above the altar of. the evil god. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we’re able to forgive them.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In the end, we had no option but to choose between the lesser of two evils, and opt for a diminished education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The new preacher, a wheedling little man who talked through his nose, twittered from the pulpit about the evils of “corporate greed” and men “who did the devil’s bidding.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked at her father in a very different way—as if he could protect her from all the dark and evil in the world. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So little angel Jeffy can be safe from my evil cooking schemes? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, as though there were not enough evil, O-lan was again with child, and her milk dried up, and the frightened house was filled with the sound of a child continually crying for food. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Don’t apologize, Doha. That evil man should never have hit you!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “I’ll help you, Frank,” she said, shooting Leo an evil look. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Hades had the same intense eyes, the same kind of mesmerizing, evil charisma. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I love what I did. But I don’t know who I am beyond the voice of a Twitter account and the evil face for a franchise.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Besides, if Winnie-the-Pooh had an evil twin brother it seemed like I would have read about it somewhere. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To undermine the status of these women, some people with influence began depicting women’s power as backward or evil. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The corners of his mouth were pulled back in an evil grimace. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of course,” Ultima smiled, “all evil can be stopped.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Medieval scholars branded void as evil—and evil as void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z ‘I did not know that your plight was so evil,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “We know all about the muvuki. He’s an evil man!” began Rosa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was good to have other things to think about, like an evil old witch with smoldering black eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Perilous indeed,’ said Aragorn, ‘fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them. Follow me!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z How could Elena expect her to defeat some evil in this castle, when there was so much more of it out there? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But the cat remained wary and suspicious, and felt with every nerve in his body that something was following—something evil. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Only dumb kids in movies wait around for evil strangers to pick them off. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z ‘What an evil fortune! And I am already weary.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A group of babalawos tried apanaldo, an exorcism, and thought they had trapped an evil spirit in the rooster they buried in a knotted cloth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could it be the evil eye?” asked Dona Maria, holding the velvet bag in the palm of her left hand. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Isn't it interesting how the Bangla word for 'evil' sounds like Satan?” You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Is it evil to look at your child, then heft something else in your arms and turn away? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are evil. You bring nothing but trouble!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Don Joaquín called on sinners to cast off evil and come to Jesus. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It seemed as though Wang Lung’s eldest son could never give over his hatred of his cousin or his deep suspicion of his cousin’s evil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Friends, there exists on this planet a delicate balance, a balance between good and evil, righteousness and wretchedness, crime and punishment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He often preached that looking away from evil and remaining silent was, in effect, supporting the evil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z No one even looked at me with evil eyes or called me a name! Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With him it was always Astelle is evil/Faith is golden. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “It’s the tree of life,” Yossarian answered, waggling his toes, “and of knowledge of good and evil, too.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Chinese say “a ready tongue is an evil.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But one day, an evil Witch rode across the sky on the back of a dragon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z So she told the boy a story of a mighty flood which the Lord had sent to wash away all the evil in the world. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Damasen said Night like it was a proper name—an evil name. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I thought I heard a little pride in her voice, like she still respected the guy, as evil as he was. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “No. Well, not directly. She just makes comments sometimes. Basically, she makes it sound as if it were the most evil thing a person could do if they aren’t married.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But it brought little hope to them, not knowing what evil lay before them, fearing to come too late. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And the evilest part was, I was sure the police would come to arrest me next. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Sometimes the Carter Cowboys’ football coach, Freddie James, lectured his talented subjects on the evils of what would happen if they acted too wild and showed no respect for rules and order. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For other birds, too, the once beneficial rain had been changed, through the evil power of the poison introduced into their world, into an agent of destruction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I know that sex isn’t evil, that it’s a normal part of being a functioning mammal, so why do I feel like I’ve done something wrong? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He’s like her horde of flying evil monkeys or something. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I just figured the only explanation for being so rude is that you’re someone’s evil twin.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Okay. Let’s say you have an evil grandfather.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The distance the Bureau has kept from the rest of the world is an evil separate from the war they intend to wage against our memories—more subtle, but, in its way, just as sinister. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And the evils of the night were about them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything that would steal power surely was evil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The people in Santa Teresa del Mar told evil lies about my father. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner was a giant with a scarred face and an evil white eye. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no room for chance in this world; all occurrences were preordained, and were caused either by the ancestral or evil spirits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “This will be burned, by the tree where the witches dance—” she sang and swiftly put the evil load into the sack. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Polly looked happy and healthy enough standing on his cage, but he still gave me the evil eye. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The forces of evil generated by the hideous—and apparently impossible to uncover—underground of suspicious characters seemed remote to him this afternoon, though. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “To my regret, I have overlooked his crimes. But I willabet his evil no more. I will not be accountable for your destruction, Ophelia. Perhaps that will atone...” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The sects fought evil, true enough, but they also fought each other with a fine lustiness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Before long, La Madrina initiated Felicia into the elehes and gave her the necklaces of the saints that would protect her from evil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When she came to the refrain, however, she did not do the dance about evil spirits, but improvised—as Eskimos do at this point. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what you mean about demons. In my world demon means...it means devil, something evil.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To achieve their goals—to have no starvation, or war—they are willing to do the worst kind of evil. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, I have,” said Black, with an evil look at Scabbers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z How awful it must be for her to have a good mom and an evil one. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was an evil doom that set her in his path. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the evil he kept summoning seeped into his soul and twisted him into something he was not.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And Kino thrust the pearl back into his clothing, and the music of the pearl had become sinister in his ears, and it was interwoven with the music of evil. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, this feels far worse than the evil eye B-Cubed threw my way after ending my season three years ago. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z A major tenet of the American Revolution—Jefferson had given it lyrical expression in the Declaration of Independence—was that all kings, and not just George III, were inherently evil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘This is an evil door,’ said Halbarad, ‘and my death lies beyond it. I will dare to pass it nonetheless; but no horse will enter.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And the tree of evil looked taller and more familiar to Unferth than the slender green tree of good. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Older, more withered, but definitely the same evil face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But you don’t have to worry—unless you have been evil. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Well, I hate to be the bearer of evil, but I know y’all had a heap rather hear it from me than somebody else.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And he was exactly like her, silent, watching, full of evil pride—they would be cast out, one day, into the outer darkness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z People in their black minds remember sins committed secretly and wonder whether they have caused the evil sequence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the effects of the witchery of the evil thing began to leave his body. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But a sullen mood hung over the ship, like an evil mist over a swamp. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Find and destroy the evil lurking in the castle indeed! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It came in the dark in the evil hours when the hands wake with a life of their own. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Brave men kill them, for dragon terrible evil beasts. It is known." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps Hamlet wanted me to leave this evil place, lest I be corrupted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I know more about that than you. I was surgeon in the Fort fight with the Indians. War is an evil, Matthew. Believe me, there can no good thing come of bloodshed.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I've labeled her "Big Harm" behind her back—short for the harmonium she plays—and her husband is "Little Harm," because he's shorter, skinnier, and slightly less evil than his wife. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Very clearly, sharply, the sound of the evil insect weapon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance over my shoulder to see if Killer Man is giving me the evil oculus, but he is not so much as looking in my direction. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “I could smell the evil on him,” Kin said softly. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Aye, that keeps off evil powers from the Isle of the Wise, but what has that to do with you, a Dragontamer?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Once she’d saved them from the mansion of the evil Cyclops when she was only seven. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “May we go now?” asked the dog, whose sensitive nose had picked up a loathsome, evil smell that grew stronger every second. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Even though she often treats me cruelly, I see that she is not all evil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fuller shifted this cigar, giving me the evil eye. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t thinking of the kind of dirt that can be washed off. You bring with you evil city ways.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She remembered a story Old Nan had told once, about a man imprisoned in a dark castle by evil giants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The girl stepped back, but the man stared at him and then flung up the staff he carried, holding it between them as a barrier to ward off the threat or act of evil. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The wall of evil and of waiting was broken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every evil which entangled him was cut to pieces. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They had lived with various forms of evil all their days, and it wasn’t that they believed God would take care of them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that sixth-grade boys just normally kept a lot of things around that were perfect for the altar of an evil god. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Live was I ere I saw evil I wrote in my journal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why I thought of Rubin Pritchard at that time, or why I thought of these words I had often heard: “There is a little good in all evil.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty's alcohol-flame stare. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Invoking the Scourge of the East silenced them, and for a moment, they peered around uneasily, as if something evil and dark would come seeping out of the cracks in the stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Just a chapter from the Bible, from Matthew, with a single verse set apart in bold: O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His neighbors kept their distance, claiming he had El Ojo, the “evil eye.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And so it was that the overwhelming stench of despair and hopelessness and evil was not at all discernible to her, and she went happily down the twisting and turning stairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z ‘Whether they are good or evil, or have nothing to do with us at all, we must go down at once. Not even on the knees of Caradhras will we wait for another night-fall!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was unpitying, inexorable, but just; a terrible, not an evil god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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