All manner of torture is being inflicted by jubilant demons upon the souls that have fallen into their clutches.
The path to the West having been found, shall it not lead those demons and dusky fiends in upon us?
And from the West is talk of a New World possessed with demons and pagans and dusky fiends as is now on the lips of all men.
The demons in possession of the man who was healed by Jesus were the first to divine and to salute His messianic dignity.
Christ did not doubt any more than they did that Satan and the demons wrought as many and perhaps more miracles than the messengers of God.
Many of thesedemons were very ancient forms of half-forgotten deities.
Several medical papyri are in existence which contain formulae to be employed against the demons of disease, as well as prescriptions for the remedies to be used in specified cases of illness.
Robert was in their eyes like a heavenly messenger, whom they were bound to aid; for here was the possessed of demons clothed and in his right mind.
How is it that the civilized people of London do not make a simultaneous inroad upon the haunts of the demons and drive them out?
The demons sank cursing into the earth; the witches flew yelling into the air, and I fell backward to the ground unconscious.
The demons came toward me, laughing brutally, and in my despair I laughed too.
I was determined to make my escape from the abode of demons and idol worshippers.
It is said that the well at Lînâ, a watering station in the land of Negd in Arabia, was dug bydemons in the service of Suleymân.
For all things turn to barrenness In the dim glass the demons hold, The glass of outer weariness, Made when God slept in times of old.
All the Demons of Hell be upon you, accursed thief!
Signor Pasquale, with pale death in his face, incapable of uttering a word or a sound, was marched off by the very Sbirri who had come there to protect him from masquerading demonsand spectres.
Nature had conspired with those red demonsyonder to sap our courage, when first I heard the rumor.
To this, fiery liquor had yielded its portion; while the weird incantations of their priests had transformed the most sober among them into demons of malignity.
T was as if hell itself had opened, to vomit forth upon the prairie that blood-stained crew of dancing demons and shock the night with crime.
Once I saw him strain desperately at the cords in a mad endeavor to break free, his flashing eyes on the demons who were torturing him beyond endurance.
With this thought there was suddenly born within me a fresh desire for life, a mad thirsting after revenge on those red demons whose merciless work I had been compelled to see.
Now at last the sand of the arena has turned red with blood, the sickly odour mounts to every nostril; shrieks become more wild, like those of thousands of demons let loose.
And even as they did so a loud and prolonged roar of laughter, like that of a hundred demons let loose, echoed throughout the length and breadth of marble halls.
It is not possible for us to conceive why demons or devils should have taken possession of human beings, admitting that they have a real existence.
The demons and deities, according to their notion of fitness, governed in vaster matters; and the new, potent sprites took shape in the popular brain as the controllers of petty affairs.
Saxons, in their wild forests, believed in tiny dwarves or demons called Duergar.
Now, all the angels in heaven and demons in hell combined shall not save her from her doom!
The candle sank lower and the shadows deepened; but the tempest howled like a legion of demons over the seven-hilled city of Rome.
Not everyone is possessed of the postmen assigned in Midrashim to King Solomon, who presseddemons into his service, and forced them to carry his letters wheresoever he willed.
They are all armed with invincible swords, the sunbeams, and all travel through the world fighting against their foes, the demonsof cold and darkness.
Loki's Day When the gods were reduced to the rank of demons by the introduction of Christianity, Loki was confounded with Saturn, who had also been shorn of his divine attributes, and both were considered the prototypes of Satan.
Among the neo-Platonists there was a strong tendency to magical speculation, and they sought to impress into their service the demons with which they peopled the universe.
Consequently the faith which the demons have, is not a gift of grace.
Without however laying stress on the word, the question as to whether the spirits calleddemons ought to be loved out of charity, must be answered in accordance with the statement made above (AA.
Further, the demons differ from the blessed angels in the matter of sin, even as sinners from just men.
But the name of demon is given to designate a nature deformed by sin, wherefore demons should not be loved out of charity.
In the first way it is not lawful to adjure the demons because such a way seems to savor of benevolence or friendship, which it is unlawful to bear towards the demons.
Now there is one formality of sin in all divinations, since they consist in entering into compact with the demons in order to know the future.
Therefore we ought to love the demons out of charity.
Objection 1: It would seem that the demons have no faith.
Wherefore superstition includes not only idolatrous sacrifices offered to demons, but also recourse to the help of the demons for the purpose of doing or knowing something.
I answer that, All divination by invoking demonsis unlawful for two reasons.
Therefore the prophets of the demons never foretell the truth.
Whether the Prophets of the Demons Ever Foretell the Truth?
Objection 1: It would seem that the prophets of the demons never foretell the truth.
Further, the demons too are able to alter bodies in many ways, as Augustine states (De Trin.
Now the demons are useful to us in many things, for "by tempting us they work crowns for us," as Augustine says (De Civ.
On the other hand it does not belong to the demons to enlighten the intellect, as stated in the First Part (Q.
How can one compare a mason's work with that of changing by persuasion a soul wherein demons had so long revelled, so that from a state of madness it should reach the height of a sound mind.
And of old the demons deceived men with spectres, taking possession of fountains and rivers, of wood and stones, and so astonishing the foolish with deceits.
But if all the fury of the demons is displaced and scattered by naming Him, it is plain they are wrong, and that our Lord and Saviour Christ is not, as they think, some demoniacal power.
Piece by piece they are carried down to Molop Az by the little demons who dwell there.
Like demons they set upon the ape-things, and before them the hyaenodon, which had now regained its senses and its feet, fled howling with fright.
All the spirits of the air, and demons of the earth, were under his command, and bound to obey him in everything.
It seemed, for near a minute, as if the demons of hell had possessed themselves of the air about them, and were venting their savage humors in barbarous sounds.
The place, seen by its dim and uncertain light, appeared like the shades of the infernal regions, across which unhappy ghosts and savage demonswere flitting in multitudes.
His cry was answered by a yell and a laugh from the woods, as tauntingly exulting as if fifty demons were uttering their blasphemies at the fall of some Christian soul.
A dozen blazing piles now shed their lurid brightness on the place, which resembled some unhallowed and supernatural arena, in which malicious demons had assembled to act their bloody and lawless rites.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
