Take seven sheets of white paper money, and, advancing forty steps due west, burn them and exorcise the spirit; recovery will follow at once!
For the rest, I shall send the curate of Vaucouleurs to examine her, and, if need be, to exorcise her in case there be some sorcery at the bottom of this.
Do you know that Master Tiphaine, the curate of the parish of St. Euterpe, undertook to exorcise the Maid in case she was a sorceress and was possessed of a demon?
For his own sake, as well as for that of the whole town, it would be well to exorcise the ghost.
The ideal must needs betray those elemental forces on which, after all, it rests; but reason exists to exorcise their madness and win them over to a steady expression of themselves and of the good.
To master the real world was an ancient and not too promising ambition: it suited his youthful radicalism better to exorcise or to cajole it.
Come with me, and I will try toexorcise this evil spirit which haunts even your slumbers.
For three years the best teachers had instructed her, and she felt that now she was mistress of a spell which, once invoked, might easily exorcise the evil spirit which had taken possession of her guardian.
But it is to be noted that before beginning to exorcise the superior, he said, speaking in Latin as heretofore, that knowing she understood Latin, he would question her in Greek.
Their main business is to summon or exorcise spirits for the purpose of averting or dispelling sickness, and of procuring favourable winds, a good catch of fish, and so on.
In the island of Nias, when a man is seriously ill and other remedies have been tried in vain, the sorcerer proceeds to exorcise the devil who is causing the illness.
At the first sign of a heavy storm they put him to the proof by inviting him to exorcise the threatening clouds; and if the result answers to their hopes, the new shepherd is assured of the sympathy and respect of his flock.
A few years ago, a Zamindar (landowner) in the Godavari district engaged a Muhammadan to exorcise a devil which haunted his house.
Wild with terror, they fled to the Sanyasi, and begged and entreated him to come and exorcise the devil.
A wizard came to a village, in order to exorcise a devil which possessed a certain woman.
When she cried out, he sent her out of the room, saying she was unworthy to sit on the lotus figure, but promising nevertheless to exorcise the devil without her being present.
Even so,” said Bakahenzie obstinately, “does the sick man exorcise the good medicine lest an enemy hath made magic thereupon?
They had been seen talking together secretly, doubtless discussing what medicine they could give him to exorcise the demon.
There was the devil in him, poor brute; and Patsy could not exorcise it.
To exorcise them, the old Church of Christendom has her mystic formulae, of which no rationalistic prescription can take the place.
I exorcise thee from hence to the bottom of the Red Sea!
And we must clearly understand that, in order toexorcise that evil spirit, we must have the co-operation of the German people themselves.
And if Satan had not been brought into the Tale, whom it is easy, by reasoning as above, to exorcise out of it, here is a no more grievous Distemper, than what upon the comfortable Exhortations of a wise Man may be cured.
And he spat upon the ground, as if to exorcise the evil spirit.
Superstition uses the formula: 'All good spirits praise the Lord,' with which to exorcise phantoms.
In order to exorcise any evil spell from the child, she breathed upon it thrice.
Then, in a seeming attempt to exorcise the demons, he told us to meet him the following day at the Los Angeles coroner's office.
The rig was the vehicle I had chosen to exercise and exorcise my body and mind.
They still adhere to their sorcerers, who are called in upon all important occasions, to predict the future, exorcise evil spirits and the like, with the aid of various decoctions and incantations.
When a person falls sick, some evil spirit is supposed to have taken possession of him, and it is the business of the shamán to exorcise that spirit, to combat and drive it out of the man.
Pinch=, a schoolmaster and conjuror, who tries to exorcise Antiph´olus (act iv.
The priests assembled, and resolved to exorcise Satan; but pug, noting their terror, flew on the chief of the bonzes, and bit his nose and ears most viciously.
M86) In the island of Nias, when a man is seriously ill and other remedies have been tried in vain, the sorcerer proceeds to exorcise the devil who is causing the illness.
Hence the prudent hunter learns at the outset to exorcise them in order that, when he has killed these animals, he may be able to cut them up and eat their flesh without having to fear the vengeance of their invisible guardian.
The desire to propitiate the good spirits and to exorcise the bad ones is the prevailing influence upon the life of a Laosian.
Had he learned it too late to be able to exorcise the demons that had so long harboured in his soul?
Can powers of genius exorcise their page, And consecrate enormities with song?
Both believed her to be suffering under an insane delusion, but the Roman Catholic priest would have attempted to exorcise the evil spirit if she would have joined his Communion.
If maternity would indeedexorcise the Invader, Milly had lost no time in beginning the exorcism.
The master took them for demons come to carry off his soul; he almost lost his senses in a fit, and he used half the holy water in Florence to exorcise the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exorcise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
