Among these are the demons that obsess human beings.
These elemental spirits like to play practical jokes and have a little fun with you, but they will not do you any harm, unless you are sufficiently weak to allow them to obsess you.
His own part in the threatening catastrophe began to obsess him.
A feeling of unreality began to obsess him, so that at times he felt like a ghost walking among sweating men, like a resurrection into life, but without life.
In fact, Courtrey, burning with the new desire that was beginning to obsess him, was working out a new design.
Occasionally it can be done in a vicarious manner, when he is able to seize on a like minded person and obsess him or her, or when he finds a medium who consciously or unconsciously panders to his desires.
He could not quite account for this sudden shadow which seemed toobsess the room.
Generally, his hands and feet are clammy and perspiring, his face is abnormally flushed or pallid, the eyes are worried or starey, unwonted wandering sensations involving now this area of the body, or now that obsess him.
From the limitless depths of each of these emanates an emotion which is able to obsess and preoccupy the whole field of consciousness.
Of the devilish spirits who long to obsess the exteriors of man; that such are shut up in hell (n.
Of the devilish spirits who chiefly obsess the interiors of man (n.
III John Faber himself had thought very little of this wonderful building when she had first mentioned it to him; but the idea began to obsess his mind as he returned to his hotel.
Was he, in truth, an obstacle to a gospel which had begun to obsess the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race?
At every stay in a sanitarium, however, dreams of her stepmother, representing veiled and symbolized homosexual situations, obsess her night after night.
We shall see in another chapter that our dream thoughts are not in any way different from our waking thoughts, and that unless they have a special meaning there is no reason why they should obsess us more than our waking thoughts do.
It was a desperate revolt, on the part of his strenuous spirit, against the phantom of gloom which threatened to obsess us all.
When, having reasoned against the mad ideas that sought to obsess me, I glanced again across the compartment, I perceived, with inexpressible relief, that my companion had lowered her veil.
At the same time I felt ashamed of not joining in the general jubilation, and bitterly disappointed that my own thoughts--always my worst enemies--should obsess me at this supreme hour.
It would come to an end some day, and I would leave the army, but would not the war obsess me until the end of my life?
The spectre of servitude still seems to obsess your humour," she observed indifferently.
With an effort she collected herself, shook off the almost eerie interest that was already beginning to obsess her, and stood up, flushed but composed.
But demons, although they do not obsess souls, do obsess bodies occasionally; and thus the soul and the demon are at the one time in the same place; and consequently for the same reason all other spiritual substances.
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