fiend,

The five thousand princes of New York to protect themselves against the four million ungrateful slaves had devised the sacred symbols of dress-coats, large houses, and automobiles as the outward and visible signs of the virtue of making money, to lure rebels into respectability and teach them the social value of getting a dollar away from that inhuman, socially injurious fiend,

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

"Here I am!" would be groaned to his mind's ear by the ubiquitous, foul fiend,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

The blow paused -- hovered -- fell, not upon me, not on the guilty, but again it fell on the innocent; and she, who was my only hope, my beloved Haydée, my wife, was snatched from my heart, ruthlessly murdered by that fiend,

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

As I sat I heard a rustle behind me, and there, not eight feet away, narrow snout held high, one tiny foot lifted, was that furry fiend,

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Shale will soon have the flapping wings of a fiend,

Georgian Poetry 1913-15 Edward Howard Marsh 1912

These slaves built temples for the omnipotent fiend,

Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. 1901

She glances round, to see that all the little company are there; sits down upon a mound of stones; throws up her arms, and yells out, like a fiend,

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885

But it is no less true that, as respects a higher power and a future state, man, in the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend,

Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

That commissioner's situation and state of mind, for the succeeding night, were certainly not enviable: like Southey's erring painter, who had yielded to the temptation of the subtle fiend,

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

"What's here?" cried the chimney-sweeper, stumbling over the fiend,

Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Fanny Burney 1796