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• “In her presence and before the whole household he repeated his false story, and clung to it with a bitter effrontery that we may well call diabolic, remembering how the nervous terror of punishment and exposure sinks the angel in man.”

  Rousseau

• “These examples are but typical of myriads in cathedrals and abbeys and parish churches throughout Europe; and all served to impress upon the popular mind a horror of everything called diabolic, and a hatred of those charged with it.”

  A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

• “But to accomplish this work, which we may also call diabolic, isn't an androgynous genius necessary?”

  The Thirteen

• “In a very Screwtapian, that is to say diabolic irony, these nobler ideals are often the best disguise for our group selfishness, for we can thereby disguise our primitiveness even from ourselves.”

  Assistant Village Idiot

• “My spell checker suggested this should be spelled "diabolic".”

  Discourse.net: A Note for my 1L Torts Class

• “The word 'diabolic' itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to "pass beyond" or "over", from the root dia - "through" and, as a causal accusative, "with the aid of".”

  The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #10

• “When we go to war, we have to have an evil enemy, a kind of diabolic enemy.”

  Under God: Religion and American Politics

• “That's the kind of diabolic prevarication I like to see my followers use to attack my enemies.) "No doubt some far-left pundits have said far worse things than Ann Coulter will ever say and the mainstream media often celebrates them.”

  The Devil's Diary: O'Reilly and liberal "bomb-throwers"

• “The tiny village of Baur came under attack in 1483 by “forces dark and overwhelming, ” long postulated to be brigands or barbarians (though hidden histories mark the attackers as diabolic and certainly of fell origins).”

  The Codex Continual » 2009 May

• ““Recently I discovered that to preserve their diabolic power, vampires must sleep during the day in the same unhallowed ground in which they had been buried.””

  TEN OF TERROR: Top 10 Retro Horror Flicks « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more

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