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Which sinful concealment the undersigned conceived to be the cause why he was abandoned to the misguiding of a water-fiend, whereby he had been under a spell, which obliged him to answer every question, even touching the most solemn matters, with idle snatches of old songs, besides being sorely afflicted with rheumatic pains ever after.
The Abbot 2008
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"Here comes my domestic water-fiend," sneered Sir Bale, as he lay back in his cumbrous arm-chair.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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L.T. A water-fiend hath possessed the fair Saxon. "
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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[30] A water-fiend hath possessed the fair Saxon. "
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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