It was considered a means of exorcising malevolent demons or of putting the priest into a state in which the sacrifice performed by him could have the expected effect.
Then, seeing that the Cap'n was bending malevolent gaze on them, he drew Hiram farther away, and they entered into spirited colloquy.
With one more malevolentlook at the Cap'n he started away.
For his visit to-day he had invented a reason--a matter of finance; but his real reason was concealed behind the malevolent merriment by which he was now seized.
But Ahriman instituted a malevolent counter-creation, and for every desirable thing Ormuzd made Ahriman produced something evil, so that he became the creator of all noxious plants and beasts of prey, diseases, and death.
LOKI The malevolent deity was represented by Loki, perhaps originally a fire-god, and ever at the elbow of Odin offering him evil counsel.
Lord Durham's ambition and malevolent activity make him so inconvenient to any Ministry of which he is not a member, that it seems almost better to admit him, and to try in this way to neutralise his ill-will.
Harcourt, "but I think the serenade has been given, for his features express the most malevolent expression.
Passing by la Tremezzina, he learned, indirectly, that certain malevolent reports had been circulated in relation to him by the brothers of the powerful association, of which he had been the chief.
No malevolent scheme of the human mind was too cruel for his enjoyment.
Just as the malevolent feelings may arise de novo, so it is with the benevolent ones.
An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolentinfluence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.
Not far distant in the tent of the angakoq Ootah heard the low disquieting sound of a drum beaten in some malevolent incantation.
At the luckless word "married," Yourii's face grew redder still, and in his eyes there was a malevolent look.
Yet pale, and strange, and cold, they appeared to him, and their eyes had a look of curiosity and malevolent glee.
The History of the Low-Countries, tho' written with great simplicity, will find malevolent readers.
He had not entered into the malevolent projects formed by Maurice against the Arminians.
Her hair was streaming behind, and every fierce and malevolent passion was depicted in her face.
Her judgment told her it was folly to connect this man with the absence of her lover, but that look of malevolent triumph had none the less shaken her heart.
He was as malevolent as ever, but it was plain to be seen that he was riding high on a wave of triumph.
Hatred* is the result of either of the malevolent affections above named, when carried to excess, or suffered to become permanent.
They come at the call of sorcerers and those who practise malevolent incantations by walking in circles lefthandwise.
For who, unless he be naturally malevolent and envious, will hate the man who gains wealth as it were from heaven?
He is regarded, not merely as what he was, an envious, malevolent zealot, but as the incarnation of Terror, as Jacobinism personified.
It is an appeal, solemnly made to posterity by a man who played a conspicuous part in great events, and who represents himself as deeply aggrieved by the rash and malevolent censure of his contemporaries.
The sense of personal agency forbidding me to sleep grew so strong that I waited in angry dread for that shock which aroused me; I felt myself haunted by a malevolent power, and rebelled against its cruelty.
Possibly some malevolent rationalist might note that the name of the railway station where this miracle befell was nowhere mentioned.
As for Sir John Malyoe, he stood in the light of a lantern, his face gone as white as ashes, and I do believe if a look could kill, the dreadful malevolent stare he fixed upon Barnaby True would have slain him where he stood.
Great Head and the Ten Brothers It was commonly believed among the Iroquois Indians that there existed a curious and malevolent being whom they called Great Head.
The mythologies of the North American Indians possess no place of punishment, any more than they possess any deities who are frankly malevolent toward humanity.
Some supernatural being whom he has offended, the soul of an animal which he has slain, or perhaps a malevolent sorcerer, torments him.
A malevolent being, supposed to live in mines, busying itself with cutting ore, turning the windlass, etc.
The Russian's face lighted to a sinister gleam of malevolent satisfaction as he stooped and felt beneath the table top.
And, snake-like, amidst the concealing foliage lay the malevolent Russ.
