The Devil took it for sunrise and disappeared, a very simple fiend indeed!
A fiend possessed my soul, irritating it to madness.
Fiend I must have been, with such sophistry to endeavor to poison that sanctuary of holy thought and tender love.
We confess that the carousal of the monks, in which Lucifer bears a share, (for the fiend continues to travel in disguise along with his expected victim,) does not strike us as being happily conceived.
Here and there in the valley was a hard-working widow that the right man could of consoled, and a few singles that would of listened to reason if properly approached; and by them it was said that Homer was a fiend for caution.
What fiendhas brought thee here, and for what purpose art thou come?
I've studied Glanville and James the wise, And wizard black-letter tomes which treat Of demons of every name and size Which a Christian man is presumed to meet, But never a hint and never a line Can I find of a reading fiend like mine.
The fiendabhorred He hailed,--embraced: 'For Christ!
What foul fiend was it that thundered and screamed through the frozen avenues of my brain?
The fiend is on the wing again," said Jean-Marie; "but as he passed I felt as if the finger of God touched my brow.
As Deep calls unto Deep, one bad passion awakened another the fiend of avarice invoked that of pride, and pride was to be supported by cruelty and oppression.
The Countess sent down her Spanish servant Teresa--if ever there was a fiend on earth in human form, that woman was ane.
The fiend of death, the Druj Nacu, obtains possession of it, and from it she springs on all who touch it, or come near it.
He vanished when he had spoken the last emphatic word, like a foul fiend after the purpose of his visitation had been accomplished; but the impression of horror excited by his presence and his errand, remained upon the crowd of spectators.
Jeanie remained mute with horror to hear language expressed so utterly foreign to all which she had ever been acquainted with, that it sounded in her ears rather like that of a fiend than of a human being.
Soon after this I was sent abroad--To do my father justice, if I have turned out a fiend it is not his fault--he used the best means.
Yet thatfiend had been the first to murder him in cold blood.
But--oh, what would I have done with that horrible fiend of an animal but for you?
Sir, said he, nay: but well I wot the fiend sent her hither to shame me.
When the fiend felt him so charged, he shook off Sir Percivale, and he went into the water, crying and roaring, making great sorrow; and it seemed unto him that the water burnt.
And anon he entered into the ship again, and the wind arose, and drove him through the sea, that by adventure he came to another ship where king Mordrains was, which had been tempted full evil with a fiend in the port of perilous rock.
Then all the knights cursed him and said that he was fiend and no man; for he hath slain here twelve of our best knights, and we wend unto this day that it had been too much for Sir Launcelot du Lake, or for Sir Tristram de Liones.
So wot I never with what craft the fiend enchafed him, for yesterday he took me from my father privily; for I nor none of my father's men mistrusted him not.
What Sir Bors said to Lionel he recked not, for the fiend had brought him in such a will that he should slay him.
You fiend in human form, what is it, I wonder, that has kept me so long from destroying you and myself too?
Oh, through all eternity, never shall I forget that fearful night, nor cease to thank God for my merciful escape from the fiend whom I had married.
She stretched out her arm, and with her golden hair glimmering in the moonlight, her white robes, and the anger on her face, looked like some avenging angel driving a fiend to hell.
Oh, that men of such transcendent powers as Coleridge and De Quincey should be stricken down by the fiend of opium!
The diarrhoea and other inconveniences and disorders in the stomach and bowels that now set in, are simply the result of nature's effort to throw off the hideous fiendpoisoning and destroying her very life.
We have seen our fattest wives and our biggest braves borne off; our helpless babes have not been safe from the clutches of that dreaded monster, with the ferocity of a fiend in the skin of a mouse, and lest worst befall us, go we must.
So, after casting one defiant glance at the ugly little fiend that crouched beneath the cauldron, he left the little Hades and journeyed on in quest of adventures.
Heaven lies about us and we see the hall, Where never storm-fiend raves nor snow-flakes fall In webs of winter whiteness to ensnare The golden summer.
Even an American tramp has been known to work like a fiendunder that condition.
Some lurking fiend of recollection sprang from out the vista of bygone years and choked back the impulse.
They were quieting down--the thirst fiend was again slowly salting their veins--when something of a dirty white color fluttered into sight from behind the base of the opposite cliff.
And as thy true confession may be the means of bringing a very fiend to justice, so may thy share in his deeds be pardoned.
She's tane her to the wild woodside, Between the flood and fell: She's sought a rede against her need Of the fiend that bides in hell.
Amid the extraordinary loveliness, the most gloomy thoughts took possession of him, and the fiend seemed to stand upon the smiling mount and claim him for himself.
That was honestly meant and said," she replied; "I knew full well that the fiend of poetical irritability flew away with the little preluding cough which ushered in the declaration.
At these words the fiend vanished and left in his cell an intolerable stench.
But Michael told thefiend that he had nothing to do but obey.
One night the devil appeared to him in the shape of a beautiful woman; but he, knowing better, plucked a red-hot pair of tongs from the fire, and seized her or him by the nose till the fiend roared and bellowed.
