Such a bias has come to us all: first, from our ancestor Adam; and, secondly, by that law of heredity which has been accumulating its malign and sinister force through all the ages.
Did you not form your plan in the twilight of misinformation, or beneath the spell of some malign and unholy influence, that exerted a mesmeric power over you?
The Christian religion, it is granted, was founded by Jesus Christ; but its theological interpretation is viewed as a misinterpretation, a malign legacy from the dying philosophies of Greece.
Meanwhile, no painted Indian ever camped on the trail of unsuspecting pioneer with more malign intent and rancorous tenacity than Willard displayed in his pursuit and tracking of the erring pair.
By some malign trick of fate she was probably stating her unalterable resolve over the telephone to his friend at the very moment he was reeling under the shock of MacGonigal's frantic messages with reference to his mother.
These “picturesque” treatments of history answer in painting to the maligninfluence of Walter Scott and Victor Hugo in literature.
L, Œdipus and the Sphinx, produced in the classical period of the master’s youth, while he was still under the malign influence of David.
There is no malign there, see, and so it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep.
Can it be that there is a malign influence of the sun at periods which affects certain natures, as at times the moon does others?
These, the astrologer tucked safely away on his person, and then proceeded to destroy the malign influence aiming for his patient's ruin.
The young lady aimed her glasses at the pie-bald, motionless in malign stupor, and replied irrelevantly: "Why!
Similar beliefs as to the malign influence of cats on corpses exist in the Border country.
These birds of prey--these unclean beasts--are the witnesses produced and relied upon to malign the memory of Thomas Paine.
Thou art right, Sancho," returned Don Quixote; "It will be wise to let the malign influence of the stars which now prevails pass off.
All malign and adverse fortunes seemed to be concentrated in the rolling, slippery, ungovernable thing.
But in Mackinnon Rickman found no malign disturbing influence, no influence of any kind at all.
What will become of thy old men and matrons when their gray hairs shall be no longer reverenced?
Four thousand pioneers were sent in advance, under the alcayde de los Donceles, to conquer in some degree the asperities of the road.
They are expected to malign the wicked people in the green and happy fields, who sit and laugh beside the gurgling springs or climb the hills and wander as they will.
In a thousand similar ways are the actions and the motives of the Irish understood by those who are careless of them; or worse, misrepresented by those whose interest, and too often business, it is to malign them.
Madame turned upon her a peaked and malign look, smiling askance with a stealthy scorn.
And none have been sent back To England tomalign us with the King?
To the sewers and sinks With all such drinks, And after them tumble the mixer; For a poison malign Is such Borgia wine, Or at best but a Devil's Elixir.
Strangely, also, the lights at either side gave it the semblance of two malign blazing eyes.
She usually restrained it with discretion, but just now the force of a malign joy swept aside prudent control.
But before this new change occurred, Twining's evil genius had again tempted him, and with the usual malign result.
England is never malign in intention, and never rushes headlong into a line of policy.
Even when an honest endeavour is made to tidy things up, a certain malign influence seems to dodge its footsteps in a Portuguese possession.
And meantime, in the upper gallery, the young Emperor, surrounded by his white-robed philosophic friends, was gazing down upon the maddened tumult with malign satisfaction.
Like a malign shadow the butterfly opened and shut its wings, while the Tears of the Sun dropped, one by one, into the hand of Hepherion.
Valentine cast a malign glance upon Cuckoo, but again fear seemed to draw near to him.
Cuckoo, thrown into confusion by the malign behaviour of her veil, caught awkwardly at the dropped end with an intention of readjusting it, but something in the sound of the whispering suddenly moved her to a different action.
Now you have forgotten this, or perhaps you never knew it, and so will could not work in you; not even, I believe, a malign will to do mischief.
The day after the boat-race lay under a malign spell.
Here we have all the well-known symptoms of a man under a malign magical influence.
Instead of forming a coalition against the evil genii who threatened their rule, and as a consequence tended to bring everything into jeopardy, they sometimes made alliances with these malign powers and mutually betrayed each other.
The stately mirth of the evening banquet seemed to Harold as the malign revel of some demoniac orgy.
Though I will not malign him, and say that he himself is capable of secret murder, yet he has ever those about him who are.
He was standing near Warden, in the grip of a malign anticipation.
He knew that the present governor of the state was incapable, or swayed by invisible and malign influences.
By a malign stroke of fate, scarcely an hour before I received your message, three hundred of my best troops left by steamer for Caracas, sadly reducing my garrison.
His capture was a malign stroke of Fate, but since Fate was inaccessible, Captain Espejo vented his annoyance and disappointment on his subordinates, which did not improve matters.
