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Gloha would have laughed at the expression on the Curse Fiend's face, if she hadn't been so nervous about whether their scatterbrained assemblage would work.
Harpy Thyme Anthony, Piers, 1934- 1994
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So there you have it in brief terms; Work first -- you are God's servants; Fee first -- you are the Fiend's.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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It was a day when a gent immaculately dressed appeared -- after duly warning the Fiend that he was about to inspect the Fiend's ménage -- an, I think, public official of
The Enormous Room 1928
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"Why then," says he, "in the Fiend's name what would ye have?"
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"In the Fiend's name, what then is the cause of your distemper?"
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893
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Fiend's finger was in it all, as, in truth, they believe.
The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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As they stood on the stair-head behind the door, they heard the prisoner, whom they had left alone in her place of confinement, discoursing with another person, who used a low and ghostly tone, which the minister instantly recognised as the Foul Fiend's voice.
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Proceeding to a yet more close attack, the Commissioners, on the eve of one of the Fiend's Sabbaths, placed the gibbet on which they executed their victims just on the spot where Satan's gilded chair was usually stationed.
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However, in every nation there are, and must always be, a certain number of these Fiend's servants, who have it principally for the object of their lives to make money.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Work first -- you are God's servants; Fee first -- you are the Fiend's.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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