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Diabolic by William Whitten on Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 at 4: 58: 17 AM
Benjamin Netanyahu 2009
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Diabolic Preacher: By contrast, PortableApps automatically adds any .exe found in it's Apps folder to the menu.
CodySafe Manages Your Thumb Drive’s Apps And Data | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Form Horrific to Diabolic by Mac McKinney on Saturday, Jan 3, 2009 at 1: 58: 33 PM
OpEdNews - Diary: Dr. Mads Gilbert and the Moral Cowardice of the World 2009
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On "Diabolic Scheme" you can almost picture the lanky singer quivering, shaking and dropping to his knees, a la Screaming Jay Hawkins, when howling melodramatic lines like, "You had me for a moment, grab hold while you can."
THE HIVES BREAK OUT 2007
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By all the power of the Great God Jehovah and the Gods of the Earth, and by the power of the Diabolic, of Maître Sarazin, and by authority of all the imaginary lines, we declare that the flags are open!
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Diabolic inspiration (as in our age infidelity and atheism are popular outcries) was a ready and successful accusation against ideas or discoveries in advance of the time.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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Diabolic ingenuity in invention though as old as the world is by no means a lost art.
Within the Tides Joseph Conrad 1890
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Diabolic -- betraying whether we yield to it, or condemn: Here is
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859
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God's law is in that, I say, however the Parchment-laws may run: there is a Divine Right or else a Diabolic Wrong at the heart of every claim that one man makes upon another.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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In that way he had proved no 'Saint,' or Divine-looking Man, but a mere Sinner, and unfortunate, blameable, more or less Diabolic-looking man!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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