Shew him the divine face of justice, then the diabolic monster which is eclipsing that: he will fly at the throat of such monster, never so monstrous, and need no bidding to do it.
A sort of hazy twilight alone reigned in this silent chamber, in the centre of which appeared the pale and ghastly form of Rodin, clad in his long black gown, whilst his eyes seemed to sparkle with diabolic fire.
But, after all, the overthrow of the diabolic altars was caused much more by the discoveries of science than by all the writings of literary philosophers.
An overwhelming tempest at sea during the voyage of these anti-papal, anti-diabolic royal personages was the appointed means of their destruction.
The diabolic economy, as evidently set forth in the work of man's destruction, might require certain modes of acting quite above our reason and understanding.
The diabolic and magic superstitions of the Moslem are displayed in Sale's Korân and Lane's Modern Egyptians.
At first, persons of the lower classes and those who, on account of their ill-repute, would be easily recognised to be diabolic agents, were alone incriminated.
But the Church, which allowed no miracle to be legitimate out of the pale, and yet could not deny the fact of the miraculous without, was obliged to assert it to be of diabolic origin.
Ismeno, a powerful magician in the ranks of the Turks, brings up a host of diabolic allies to guard the wood which supplied the infidels with materials for carrying on the siege of the city (xiii.
Christianity, with something of the spirit of Judaism from which it sprung, was forced to believe that the older religions must have sprung from a diabolic origin.
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 more one studies the question from all sides, and not merely from a narrow materialistic standpoint, the less one is ready to condemn the medievalists for their various theories of diabolic possession.
It had been painted by a well-known artist whose appreciation of the outward as a revelation of the inward man is slightly diabolic in its completeness.
He hailed the diabolic talent of the artist who had laid bare with such subtle skill the flatulence of his sitter.
Here the odd, arch, diabolic yellow flare lit up through the stoicism of Pancrazio's eyes.
There was in the man a sort of sulphur-yellow flame of passion which would light up in his battered body and give him an almost diabolic look.
He knew the pride that Asher would take in destroying her faith, and this diabolic project he had determined to frustrate; and every year when he returned from Rome, he asked if Evelyn was expected to sing in London that season.
In America, the belief in diabolic influence had, in the early colonial period, full control.
Conscientious men still linger on who find comfort in holding fast to some shred of the old belief in diabolic possession.
There had been reason to expect that Bossuet would at least do something to mitigate the superstition; for his writings show that, in much which before his day had been ascribed to diabolic possession, he saw simple lunacy.
This idea of diabolicinfluence pervaded his conversation, his preaching, his writings, and spread thence to the Lutheran Church in general.
Evans, on Modern Instances of Diabolic Possession, and on Recent Recrudescence of Superstition in The Popular Science Monthly for Dec.
Before the laws governing mental health were known, insanity was generally thought to be diabolic possession.
I had got," he said, glancing at his last chapter, "to where the alchemic experiments and diabolic evocations have proved unavailing.
In vain he may dream of unique violations, of more ingenious slow tortures, but human imagination has a limit and he has already reached it--even passed it, with diabolic aid.
And if it be what it is, either a Divine Power, or a diabolic deceit, can that be at once the Gospel, which has it and which has it not?
Gabet said that, allowing for some jugglery, it was impossible not to conclude that there was diabolic agency at work.
Yet it is in the matter of phenomena, taken to be directly Diabolic or Preternatural, that a Pseudo-Mysticism has been specially fruitful in strangely materialistic fantasies.
The diabolic hostility is open and avowed and He hears the howls and shrieks of the infernals.
On the bank, when they are rooted in the earth, their juices from the underworld are full of diabolic subtlety, are tempting in the mouth as they are deadly in the blood and sure destruction at the last.
Small though it was, smaller than himself, the diabolic fire in its close-set eyes gave him a thrill of terror.
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.
Show him the divine face of Justice, then the diabolic monster which is eclipsing that: he will fly at the throat of such monster, never so monstrous, and need no bidding to do it.
As then, too, his hair rose in tongues ofdiabolic flame.
Letty found him a marvelous figure in his scarlet robe, and with his mass of diabolic black hair.
This work, although a mere tissue of fabrications, was greeted by the Catholic press and priesthood with exultation, as an authentic narration containing positive and irrefutable proofs of the diabolic character of the Masonic mysteries.
Their heads bobbed up and down in queer scarlet turbans or scarfs, like the flannel nightcaps of so many diabolic invalids.
A band of huddled converts sang once more, in squealing discords, with an air of sad, compulsory, and diabolic sarcasm.
He had seen quickly, guessed with a diabolic shrewdness, yet would remain on the surface, always, of a mystery so violent and so profound.
Sylvia recalled--and in this room it was impossible to rid herself of that diabolic obsession--that the devil was known as the Father of Lies.
