How To Use Demoniac In A Sentence
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The noise that instantly ensued in the town was something pandemoniacal.
The Lighthouse
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Demoniacally arthropodan be a coastward that gets inaudible and we go from paraleipsis topping backstop to scandinavian butty.
Rational Review
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And as the Romans in this held the same opinion with the Greeks, so also did the Jews, for they called madmen prophets, or, according as they thought the spirits good or bad, demoniacs; and some of them called both prophets and demoniacs madmen; and some called the same man both demoniac and madman.
Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
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One of them gives a demoniac plan, and another comes and gives a demoniac clap to it.
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While Nickell mentioned that many early cases of possession were probably due to disorders such as epilepsy or Tourette's syndrome, pharmacology may also play an increasing role in treating alleged demoniacs.
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Page 44 it would seem, that you do not only chuckle with a demoniac joy over what you suppose are the exquisite tortures of my sensibilities but your ecstacies are redoubled and refined in the proud contemplation of the additional fact that you are the author of my terrible agonies, the illiad of all my woes.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
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‘Throughout the auditorium, demoniacs are paired off with exorcism ministers,’ writes Cuneo, who himself rushed help wrestle down a particularly violent demoniac to prevent him from further battering Pastor Mike.
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The six-storey tall screen captures the demoniac fury of the falls in such realistic detail that you cringe with fear as you watch it.
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It seemed to him for a moment that Osmond had a kind of demoniac imagination; it was impossible that without malice he should have selected so unusual a topic.
Chapter XLVIII
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There is in human nature what Goethe used to call a demoniac element, defying all law, and all induction; and we can, I fear, from that one cause, as easily calculate the progress of the human race, as we can calculate that of the vines upon the slopes of AEtna, with the lava ready to boil up and overwhelm them at any and every moment.
Roman and the Teuton
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A more perplexing difficulty arises from his handling of the cases of so-called demoniac possession.
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
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Confusion, dirt, pandemoniac noise, long delay, and over all a blistering sun, were ill suited to bring peace to the embezzled seeker after pleasure.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
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When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set
Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman--,
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A sort of solemn hush, in company with the night, caused comparative stillness to brood over the scene, in contrast to the pandemoniacal noise that had previously reigned so fiendishly.
Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
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That he went from wreck to wreck with this bland, nameless jingle on his lips was nothing short of demoniacal.
EVERVILLE
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We had returned nearly to the hotel in this undignified manner, the throng of persecutors gathering strength as we entered the streets, till we were completely surrounded -- those in front walking backwards, and stopping every now and then suddenly, that we might be jostled against by those who were thronging behind, all bellowing the pandemoniacal chorus, without words and still less tune.
Sea-Gift. A Novel.
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I closed the drawer, I hopped and gloated and laughed, triumphing, completely maniacal, demoniac.
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Barely average height, his flashing, sometimes demoniac approach, which so contrasted with the measured Kemble school, made him one of the most controversial of the early 19th-century actors, generating as much abuse as admiration.
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I could not admit that the demoniac atrocities, described as Fenian principles by the constabulary-spy Talbot, ever had my sanction or approval or the sanction or approval of any man in America.
Speeches from the Dock, Part I
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With the energy of a demoniac, Moby exploded around the stage leaping and bouncing under an impressive lighting system that provided a devilish hue for the night's opening anthems ‘Machete’ and ‘Porcelain.’
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The stranger, as he speculates on these pandemoniac noises, is able to realise the idea that were they discontinued the excitement necessary for the minds of the pundits might be lowered, and that activity might be lessened, and evil results might follow.
The Prime Minister
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So with the assistance of his possessed, his demoniacs, or his convulsionaries, he procured testimonies which, from his own mouth, would have been too suspicious, and might have caused him hatred.
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I closed the drawer, I hopped and gloated and laughed, triumphing, completely maniacal, demoniac.
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'demoniac' people, in the passus beginning 'they declare the world to be without a Truth, without a resting-place, without a Ruler,' and ending
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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Spider-Man story pushed that little bit further, cranking up the violence, sex and language for a pandemoniac two hours with a high school loser-turned-crimefighter.
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Because in Humbert's private mythology, Dolly is the "nymphet" Lolita, a creature whose "true nature is not human, but … demoniac," a changeling without family or history, existing on an "intangible island of entranced time," where neither she nor Humbert will ever grow up.
Lolita At 50, And Forever Young
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We've all heard the saying, ‘Actions speak louder than words,’ and the story of the demoniac in Capernaum is an excellent illustration of its truth.
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I had created, "a" demoniacal corpse, "" no mummy again endued with animation could be so hideous, "" a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_
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Demoniacally arthropodan be a coastward that gets inaudible and we go from paraleipsis topping backstop to scandinavian butty.
Rational Review
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Her silky mane of angelic blonde hair still remained unchanged, but it now looked hideously out of place on her demoniac head.
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Its wild, demoniac laughter awakens the echoes on the solitary lakes, and its ferity and hardiness are kindred to those robust spirits.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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The stranger, as he speculates on these pandemoniac noises, is able to realize the idea that were they discontinued the excitement necessary for the minds of the pundits might be lowered, and that activity might be lessened, and evil results might follow.
The Prime Minister
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Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid, decadent, demoniac.
The House Beautiful
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Charles, "would he say," the thin-blooded wand of forty years ago in a brocaded waistcoat and a pair of dancing-shoes seeking his way through a labyrinth of demoniac trees, shivering half with cold and half with terror like a _forcat_ from the _bagne_ of
Doom Castle
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'demoniac' manner of contemporary tragedians, I take leave to think that no player has been more worthy to wear the _canons_ of M.scarille or the gown of Vadius than M. Coquelin of the Comédie Francaise.
Letters to Dead Authors
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Oh, he's always stunning… but when he's sitting and doing nothing he looks angelic and all the rest of the time demoniac.
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Eustace's first act was to bless a holy well at Wye, where many healing miracles were reported and a woman was cured of demoniac possession.
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When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set about his purpose by first snatching the young babe and casting it into the fire!
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
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Demoniacal... "Anastasia could tell, when he got to demoniacal, that he was going to go on for quite a while.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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We may quite allowably heighten the above picture by supposing that the person in her trance, in addition to being mad, might have displayed some of the perceptive powers occasionally developed in trance; and so have evinced, in addition to her demoniacal ferocity, an "uncanny" knowledge of things and persons.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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-- The word rendered "devils," is always used for those spiritual agents employed in demoniacal possessions -- never for the ordinary agency of Satan in rational men.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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With its demoniac passions, its satanic ambition, desecrating the remains of the slain, making goblets of their skulls, and trinkets of their bones, this revolt is a heliograph of Dahomey, and Devildom daguerreotyped more vividly than by
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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I still recoil at the memory of that ammoniacal, and demoniacal, assault on my eyes and nose.
John B. Fenn - Autobiography
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Blocked in the valley, the fire, as if animated by some deadly purpose, crept into the mouth of a brushy canyon and ran uphill with demoniac energy until it was burning fiercely over a benchland to the west of Hollister's timber.
The Hidden Places
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The mammoth was a monster beast, with perhaps somewhat less of sagaciousness than the modern elephant, but with a temper which was demoniacal when aroused, and with a strength which nothing could resist.
The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
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In the meantime, generations of scientists had ‘proved’ that women were witches, demoniacs, or hysterics.
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Generally, they were not regarded as guilty of any sin or crime but as innocent victims of demonic attack; however, in several cases demoniacs did claim that they had been possessed as the result of witchcraft.
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He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac.
Reflections on Self-Regard
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For the more demoniac drivers, who offer taxi services, the new highway code has triggered great pain, since most run without legal documentation and without normal security measures, such as excess passengers.
Global Voices in English » Angola: New highway code in action
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When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.
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In addition, I'm having second thoughts about deserting America at this particularly pandemoniacal moment.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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Pseudo-Jerome: Here again the demoniac is the people of the Gentiles, in a most hopeless case, bound neither by the law of nature, nor of God, nor by human fear.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
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He was sitting at a supper-table smoking a cigarette, and gazing somewhat sadly -- it seemed to me -- at the pandemoniac phantasmagoria of screaming dancers, the glittering cosmopolitan chaos that multiplied itself riotously in the mirrored walls of the great flaring ball-room, where under-dressed women, waving many-coloured paper lanterns, rode on the shoulders of grotesquely clad men prancing to joyous music.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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It's what might weel be described as pandemoniacal.
The Firm of Girdlestone
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Yes | No | Report from demoniac wrote 1 year 1 week ago
If You could have just one rifle...
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He went so far as to question Scripture: "If there are thus no other signs necessary to demon possession, than those which are described by the Evangelists, [then] every epileptic, melancholiac, phrenetic, will have the devil in their body: and there will be more demoniacs in the world than fools.
Carleton Cunningham: The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France
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[FN#447] In text "Rákiba-há," the technical term for demoniac insiliation or possession: the idea survives in our "succubi" and
Arabian nights. English
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Pelle's head, and round about it went, striking the most improbable objects, _dum, dum, dum_, as though in wild, demoniacal obedience to the flute-like tones of the journeyman.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
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Pansy's, far away in the garden, -- in a partly boggish, partly hoggish manner, drenched and desolate; and with something of demoniac temper got into its calyx, so that it quarrels with, and bites the corolla; -- something of gluttonous and greasy habit got into its leaves; a discomfortable sensuality, even in its desolation.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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And as the Romans in this held the same opinion with the Greeks, so also did the Jews; for they called madmen prophets, or, according as they thought the spirits good or bad, demoniacs; and some of them called both prophets and demoniacs madmen; and some called the same man both demoniac and madman.
Leviathan
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In the Middle Ages compassion and support for persons with mental illness subsisted along with the belief in demoniac possession as a primary aetiology of mental illness.
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A plausible reason cited for this name is that the Arabian for evil spirit is _Al ghole_, and the effects of the mysterious liquid upon men suggested demoniacal possession.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
