fiendlike

• “A partial of claimed which here a "fiendlike queen" of early scenes shows her dual nature, slow tenderly over a mental stop of a murdered mom of Macduff.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “Melmoth spoke very slowly and very softly, and the melodious smoothness of his voice made a frightful contrast to the stony rigor of his features, and the fiendlike brilliancy of his eyes.”

  Melmoth the Wanderer

• “His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiendlike malice.”

  Frankenstein

• “Some sorcerer, some witch-man, no doubt: it looked fiendlike enough.”

  Heart of Darkness

• “Fell with his face to the sky, and a fiendlike fierceness upon it.”

  Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School

• “Nothing shows more forcibly the power of association in minds not capable of discriminating, than that the name of a man so obviously a reluctant instrument in the hands of God, and who declared by a public act his abhorrence of the part he was forced to act, should be selected as synonymous to every thing fiendlike and murderous.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “She made no secret of her intention to evince the interest she felt in his welfare by a considerable bequest in her will; but, on accompanying Mrs.K. to the theatre to see Kean perform _Luke_, she was so appalled by the cold-blooded villany of the character, that, attributing the skill of the actor to the actual possession of the fiendlike attributes, her regard was turned into suspicion and distrust.”

  The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection

• “With fiendlike power, thou dragg'st him back with thee,”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827

• “Speaking of the fiendlike hero of her sister's work, she says: --”

  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851

• “F.O.J. Smith is here, the same ugly, fiendlike, dog-in-the-manger being he has ever been, the 'thorn in the flesh' which I pray to be able to support by the sufficient grace promised.”

  Letters and Journals 02]

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