How To Use Incubus In A Sentence
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But these ex-communist, university-based scholars were made to carry the incubus of the past.
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Bits of Incubus, the 1965 horror flick filmed in Esperanto and starring William Shatner.
GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/28.
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It was a Christian Democratic party that had its roots and values in the Resistance and that purged the incubus of the traditional association of Catholicism with the Right.
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For most of the history of Christianity there are reports of Satan having sex with humans, either as an incubus (male devil) or succubus (female devil).
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The incubus lingered at the opening of the kitchen, leaning on one arm against the doorframe, the other hand casually holding a dishrag over his important bits.
Brush of Darkness
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Jupiter in person, was the incubus of Alcmena and Semele; Thetis in person, the succubus of Peleus, and Venus of Anchises, without having recourse to the various contrivances of our extraordinary demonism.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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In the Old Testament the incubus was viewed as a voluptuous being eager to mate with women.
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Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.
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So, unless it straggles back again and Father gets rid of his incubus, which isn't at all likely, the eldest daughter of the noble house of
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
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Many economists have in recent decades come to be persuaded that there is a way to get the political incubus off the economy's back.
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He is said to have been the child of a human mother and an incubus, or demon.
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The incubus basked in it, a sly smile on his face.
Brush of Darkness
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He said there’s a spirit called an incubus that comes to women in their sleep, and—
Elixir
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He turned to glare, so far as his mild, plain face was capable of glaring, at the incubus of whom he spoke, and behold, Brother Jerome had vanished from his mounting-block, and was scurrying head-down for the abbot's lodging.
Monk's Hood
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The words of Montoyo had scored deeply, and the presence of our supernumerary laid a kind of incubus, like an omen of ill luck, upon us.
Desert Dust
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If these incubuses are not in the hoosgow by sundown, you can pretty much forget about getting any Snickers or Butterfingers in your pillow cases this Halloween -- and you can also forget about celebrating New Year.
Madame Jane's Halloween prediction: There will be no 2007!
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The incubus lingered at the opening of the kitchen, leaning on one arm against the doorframe, the other hand casually holding a dishrag over his important bits.
Brush of Darkness
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Like an incubus, it sucks all the economic resources of the world, and robs it of the best talent.
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Until those Americans who are genuine patriots stand up united and speak against the incubus which is Israel, we are going on down the toilet.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Dear Wolfie: Can You Tell the Difference Yet?
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The incubus of legs and chelae and vital organs will be removed.
The Chessmen of Mars
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He might also be seen as an Incubus: the scene in the bedroom before Cathy's death seems to replace Linton's baby with one much closer in likeness to Heathcliff.
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If I didn't know better, I would suppose that city planning staffs were dying to rethink and overhaul the incubus of pointless or destructive municipal, state, and federal planning regulations.
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According to one legend, the incubus and the succubus were fallen angels.
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Dufour, _Histoire de la Prostitution_, vol. v, Ch. XXV, Saint-André, physician-in-ordinary to the French King, pointed out in 1725 that the incubus was a dream.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
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Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.
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When by our continued posture in sleep, some uneasy sensations are produced, we either gradually awake by the exertion of volition, or the muscles connected by habit with such sensations alter the position of the body; but where the sleep is uncommonly profound, and those uneasy sensations great, the disease called the incubus, or nightmare, is produced.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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We're calling the film Incubus because we looked the word up in the dictionary and thought it sounded enigmatic.
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A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy!
Biographical Essays
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Has anyone had any experiences with what might be considered a succubus or incubus?
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The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in mens Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration.
Paras. 20-39
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He had exploded the scholastic system, which had become a mere mass of logomachies and an incubus upon scientific progress.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
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For some years it was left a roofless ruin, and a building designed for the parish church was afterwards erected within the nave, roofed over at the level of the triforium, and used as a place of worship till 1875, when a new church built in excambion by the Earl of Lothian was opened for worship, and the abbey ruin can now be viewed "clear of that incubus upon its lovely proportions.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Teutonic 'nightmare,' French _cauchemar_ (_mara_, an incubus, or succuba), belong in this class of malefic ghosts.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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The incubus, from the Latin for "nightmare, " is a demon that sexually assaults women, and sometimes men, while they are asleep.
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The incubus is the one that came through the Doorway to find us.
Brush of Darkness
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In the country districts the task of carrying out the provisions of the new Act was irksome enough; in the towns and cities it became an incubus.
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And I let Art come in like an incubus, like a ghost that was robbing me of my life.
GO!
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The earliest literary sources have Merlin as a wonder child, born of an incubus (a male demon), and a Welsh nun.
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Gone is the agent provocateur, the incorrigible controversialist, the incubus of discord and scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Merlin was the son of an incubus and a human, condemned to age backwards, so that he predicted the past, remembered the future and used his skills to preserve the time line.
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Not unless you call being pawed by an incubus a bad thing.
Brush of Darkness
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The incubus of legend may have been a wicked sprite driven by uncontrolled lust, but the only thing you'll covet after watching its movie namesake is a pair of cosmetic tweezers and a copy of Demons for Dummies.
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The little store of sovereigns in the tin box seemed to be the only sight that brought a faint beam of pleasure into the millers eyes, faint and transient, for it was soon dispelled by the thought that the time would be longperhaps longer than his life, before the narrow savings could remove the hateful incubus of debt.
II. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation
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For all I knew the incubus was a lying piece of shit who was only trying to manipulate me for his own ends.
Brush of Darkness
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Has anyone had any experiences with what might be considered a succubus or incubus?
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Like most of the album, it's a pure adrenaline blast and, as always, their animated frontman is a welcome break from the self-pitying shlump rock of chart-toppers like Incubus.
THE HIVES BREAK OUT
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The incubus, from the Latin for "nightmare, " is a demon that sexually assaults women, and sometimes men, while they are asleep.
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For most of the history of Christianity there are reports of Satan having sex with humans, either as an incubus (male devil) or succubus (female devil).