Manco broke from his masters and, aided by his people, raised the standard of rebellion, determining to make a last supreme effort to rid his subjects of the incubus that was sapping the life of the country.
Moreover, this great waste, a seeming incubus on the face of the earth, is each year disclosing more and more of its mineral and agricultural wealth.
The support of the hordes of lazy monks is a great incubus and retards the development of the country.
It is high time that religion was freed from the indescribable incubus of a chaos.
I may be mistaken; but I cannot see why this reply does not completely meet the difficulty, and free an important doctrine from an incubus under which it has long lain half smothered.
Bacon, Descartes, and Hobbes, however, in the preceding century had still treated it as the great incubus upon intellectual progress, and it was not yet exorcised from the universities.
It has finally cast off the incubus of a retrograde political system; it has placed the nation in a position of unprecedented importance in Europe; and it is setting an example of ordered liberty to the whole civilised world.
If in this state I yield to the strong inclination to sleep, a severe paroxysm of Incubus is the inevitable consequence, and that in the course of a very few minutes.
Sylvius Deleboe, who has recorded the history of an epidemic disease, which raged in the city of Leyden, in the year 1669, mentions the Incubus as a very common affection in it, with which he was himself afflicted to a great degree.
Their force must be lessened, for they are a heavy incubus on the patient's mind, imposing a burden on vitality that inhibits normal, vital reaction.
It weighs as an intolerable burden, an incubus that is sure to keep its subject awake.
Nothing so disturbs the efficiency of work, nor adds so much to the incubusthat work may become, as having a number of unfinished things which keep intruding themselves.
There was some terrible weight bearing him down, some awful incubus of which he was unable to rid himself.
He realized from her action how deeply she felt his kindness in providing her with the funds that were to relieve her father of an incubus that was sapping his very life.
Politically he was the incubus of the ministry, although as a chancery judge, or at all events a chancery lawyer, he possessed reputation.
With the burning of the prison an incubus that had weighed upon Punta Arenas vanished.
And shall I complain at being nearly smothered by it, when I remember what an incubus slavery is to the poor creature who gathered this cotton, and what an incubus it is to our unhappy land?
That he has thrown off one-half of it in forty years is a wonderful showing; but a great incubus remains in the other half, and it demands the nation's attention.
Negro leadership, therefore, sought from the first to rid the race of this awful incubus that it might make way for natural selection and the survival of the fittest.
The cry of the hapless, which has been put into their lips by God himself, is the appointed prerequisite of the manifestations of Divine judgment which will relieve the earth of the incubus of "the man of the earth.
Divine judgments minister occasion for praise even from pure spirits before the throne, and men relieved from the incubus of godless oppression may well draw a long breath of relief, which passes into celebration of His righteous acts.
The servants of God, relieved from the incubus and beholding the fall of evil, lift up their praises.
Oh, if only he could be given liberty to sweep her into his arms, to call her name in the piety of supreme love, snatch her away from the incubus of dread which had settled upon her so relentlessly.
An incubus within was pushing his life-springs out.
In every direction also there are thousands on thousands who are becoming freed from that horrible incubus of fear as they look out towards the future.
She foresaw the musty room to which she was going, the slatternly incubus of a man.
So, if I do make good, will you divorce that incubus of an Eddie Schwirtz and marry me?
Gradually the Chinese are shaking off the incubus and, reckless of the Dragon, are forming companies for the exploitation of all sorts of minerals.
Let them cast this incubus of irrational fear behind them, and the mere process of life may then be tolerable enough.
From the incubus of mere collegiate discipline I was perhaps more free than nine undergraduates out of ten.
Such charges are an incubus on trade, and may wisely be abandoned.
The Revenue Commission find the taxes on our manufactures and their materials an incubus upon the industry and a check to the progress of the country, and recommend their remission.
I want to ask you," said Des Hermies, "does a woman receive the visit of the incubus while she is asleep or while she is awake?
At present it is less frequently demons than bodies raised from the dead which fill the indispensable rôle of incubusand succubus.
To which Saint Thomas answers, with more or less subtle arguments, that the real father is not the incubus but the man.
Know, then, that the organ of the incubus is bifurcated and at the same time penetrates both vases.
Do you receive, at night, the visit of the incubus which resembles me?
Such books ornament a table and are little read; an incubus of instalments is laid on the buyer; he pays twice as much as ought to be asked for the book and the sale of really valuable and much cheaper books is prevented.
Famine had made its appearance in many parts of the country, and the peasantry would be glad to be rid of the incubus of landlordism at any cost.
This incubus at length removed from the colony, may be succeeded by a governor of the first class.
In the mean time, the annual outlay during eleven years is an additional incubus upon the prime cost of the plantation, which, at the expiration of this term, may be reduced to one-tenth of its present value.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incubus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
