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His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.
Chapter 7 2010
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There has been no occasion during our National history when a riot has occurred so destitute of justifiable cause, resulting in a massacre so inhuman and fiend-like, as that which took place at New Orleans on the 30th of July last.
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The new ruler goes on to promise darkly that he will begin his regime by "Producing forth the cruel ministers/Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen."
In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008
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This brilliantly written exchange is almost always left out of critical accounts of this scene because of what immediately follows: the horrendous blinding of Gloucester by the fiend-like interrogators.
Shakespeare and the Uses of Power Greenblatt, Stephen 2007
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His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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“O abominable flat head, with icy-cold, humanlike, fiend-like eyes, I shall cut you off and throw you away!”
Green Mansions 2004
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His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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She was hideous in person, which was much more AFFREUX from the excessive rage with which she seemed to denounce the white men; — her fiend-like eyes flashing fire, as if prophetic of the advent of another race, and the certain failure of her own.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Mad with horror, she would have burst among her deluded fellow-victims, and, wildly shrieking, have awaked the dull ear of night with the history of the fiend-like crime; when the Impostor, in his last act of rage and desperation, plunged a poignard in her bosom.
The Last Man 2003
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