She was a beautiful, greedy werewolf, knowing neither consideration nor restraint, her vampire mouth forever draining the warm life-blood.
For the weird that the Vampirehad laid upon Grettir, when he had fought with him through the night at Thorhall-stead, lay heavy upon him.
So does a vampire Sucking her victim Draw from him His blood and his marrow.
The Vampire superstition is still general in the Levant.
The marks by which a vampire corpse was recognized were the apparent non-putrefaction of the body and effusion of blood from the lips.
A suspected vampire was exhumed, and if the marks were perceived or imagined to be present, a stake was driven through the heart, and the body was burned.
His heart sucked the blood from the body of the Marquesan like a vampire bat of the forest, and he lay bound, feeling the blood go from him.
The gods only could save the last of the tribe from the veinahae, the vampire who seizes the dead.
But the vampire seemed to take a personal dislike to me; and the provoking brute would refuse to give my clavet one solitary trial, though he would tap the more favoured Indian's toe, in a hammock within a few yards of mine.
The Vampire replied: Bring me a newly slain Brahman, and I will teach you a spell for raising the dead.
Then some time afterwards, Kritákrita said to himself: I will try the efficacy of this spell that the Vampire has taught me.
And the Vampire kept his word, giving him the dice, and teaching him the spell.
The two incidents of the vampire and the snakes threw my mind into a state of reflection on the system of nature which makes the existence of one animal depend on another for its subsistence.
The two-tailed vampirecat destroys a beautiful maiden and, taking her form, preys on a handsome prince.
A certain kind of vampire (which is really a bloodsucking ghost) is said to have the power of assuming animal shape, and Bulgarian vampires appear to be especially gifted with this peculiarity.
Still comparatively few though they be, they do exist and it is from their ranks that the still rarer vampire is drawn.
A more original idea is that certain human beings possess animal doubles and that the soul-animal roams at large while the man remains visible in his ordinary form, and many of the vampire and wer-wolf stories are traceable to this belief.
Was the thing slain, or in its vampire tenacity of life would it renew the combat?
She puts her hand up suddenly to her heart, and clutches at her dress nervously, as if to hide the vampire hidden there.
That is just the cruel part of it,” he says—“that freezing endurance sitting like a vampire on our hearts.
If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone.
Today this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, and till sunset he may not change.
And there remain one more victim in the Vampire fold.
She was bitten by the vampirewhen she was in a trance, sleep-walking, oh, you start.
I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many.
We have on our side power of combination, a power denied to the vampire kind, we have sources of science, we are free to act and think, and the hours of the day and the night are ours equally.
I can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her face.
And he remain on and on, till sunset come, and the Vampire sleep be over.
Her, I had not dare to take into this place, but left safe from the Vampire in that Holy circle.
The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time, he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living.
Van Helsing whispered to me, "Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce.
She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as though I have come to do murder.
I was glad to see her paleness and her illness, for my mind was full of the fresh horror of that ruddy vampire sleep.
In fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular.
I began to fear that the fatal spell of the place was upon her, tainted as she is with that Vampire baptism.
The Vampire having narrated thus far, suddenly asked the king, "Of these three, whose virtue was the greatest?
This caused the Vampire to cry aloud, more however, it would appear, in derision than in real suffering, for he presently proceeded with the same subject.
This proceeding, however, did not prevent the Vampire from slipping back to his tree, and leaving an empty cloth with the Raja.
Raja Vikram, hearing these words, recalled suddenly to mind all that the Vampire had whispered to him.
Here the Vampire whispered for a time and in a low tone, lest some listening goblin might carry his words if spoken out loud to the ears of the devotee Shanta-Shil.
The Vampire asked a few indifferent questions about the wind and the rain and the mud.
Then theVampire became silent, and Vikram relapsed into a walk which allowed the tale to be resumed.
Remained the task of carrying the Vampire to Shanta-Shil the devotee.
The Vampire lost no time in opening a fresh story.
The warrior monarch had so far committed himself that he could not prevent the Vampirefrom flitting.
The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time; he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living.
I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.
Her, I had not dare to take into this place, but left safe from the Vampire in that Holy circle; and yet even there would be the wolf!
We have on our side power of combination--a power denied to the vampire kind; we have resources of science; we are free to act and think; and the hours of the day and the night are ours equally.
The time is coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, and till sunset he may not change.
I was glad to see her paleness and her illness, for my mind was full of the fresh horror of that ruddy Vampire sleep.
To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone.
Van Helsing whispered to me:-- "Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce.
And there remain one more victim in theVampire fold; one more to swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Un-Dead!
The Resident had been more than a fortnight buried, and his vampirewas still supposed to go the rounds.
We may sum up the cheerful doctrine thus: All men become vampires, and the vampire spares none.
In the next story a most detailed account is given of the manner in which a Vampiresets to work, and also of the best means of ridding the world of it.
Supposed by some philologists to be from pit' = drink, whence the Croatian name for a vampire pijawica.
Into such bodies, it is held, demons enter, and the combination of fiend and corpse goes forth as the terrible Vampire thirsting for blood.
The only certain methods of destroying a vampire appear to be either to consume him by fire, or to chop off his head with a grave-digger's shovel.
It is not only during sleep that the Vampire is to be dreaded.
He whom a vampire has slain is supposed, in some countries, himself to become a vampire.
Many skazkas also contain, as we have already seen, very clear directions how to deprive a vampire of his baleful power.
Moreover, the Regular name for a vampire in Servian, he remarks, is vukodlak.
The next chapter will contain a number of vampire stories which, in some respects, resemble these tales of homicidal corpses.
On this account Hanush believes that the Old Slavonians, as burners of their dead, must have borrowed the vampire belief from some other race.
The Wends say that if a vampire is hit over the back of the head with an implement of that kind, he will squeal like a pig.
The Heads of Apex By Francis Flagg [Sidenote: Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex.
But I know that without blood the Heads must die miserably and the people be freed from their vampire existence.
When the vampire returned from his prowlings and missed his clothes, he cried furiously to the Moravian, whom he saw at the summit of the tower, and who, in reply, beckoned him to ascend and take them.
The amphibious existence of the vampire is sustained by daily renewed slumber in the grave.
The vampire is, apparently, subject, in certain situations, to special conditions.
From this point he watched until he saw the vampire come out of his grave, and place near it the linen clothes in which he had been folded, and then glide away towards the village to plague its inhabitants.
We talked a little more, and among other things he said was this: "One sign of the vampire is the power of the hand.
The vampire is prone to be fascinated with an engrossing vehemence, resembling the passion of love, by particular persons.
Your vampire soul leaped to mine at the first glance I ever gave you,--you were a false foul thing from the first, and you recognized your master!
Its call signifies the presence of a vampire (unglù) or in some beliefs, it is a form the vampire takes himself.
He is a vampire now because the old man passed his supernatural power on to him.
Mr. Edward Terry was the Vampire himself, and other parts were taken by Harry Cox, Miss Rose Cullen, and Miss Topsy Venn.
A surprising thing, however, about this vampire was its habit of keeping itself in back yards.
It was a certain policeman of more than usual courage who spied upon this vampire in a back yard in which it had recently been seen.
This black thing had not been there before he went to sleep, so he suspected that this was thevampire he had been told about.
Vampires eat dead people, so he concluded that the dead person was the thing for which the vampire had come there.
Most of the men also were afraid, but there were some who said that they were not afraid, because they had not yet come across a vampire and therefore did not know whether it was really to be feared.
A vampire is hard to kill with knife or gun, because it has but one place which one must hit or wound in order to kill it, and this place is secret.
Strange was also the fact that it was mostly young girls who said that they had caught sight of this vampire in back yards, up in grape-fruit trees and other trees.
These fruits were just getting ripe, when the rumor spread that, for several nights back, some women had caught sight of the vampire in various back yards.
The policeman who had playedvampire was put in jail for the crime of theft.
When he arrived there it was not long before he was told that there was a vampire in the place.
In the summer of the year 1902, when the ripe fruits of the fruit-trees were hanging from the branches, there circulated all through the town of San Antonio the rumor that a vampire was going about the town.
It was not long before thevampire came and climbed on a grape-fruit tree, and he heard it picking many fruits.
Werewolf and vampire knew, and the ebon-bodied demons that prowl by night.
Once Conan caught a glimpse of ivory flesh in the shadows, believed he saw the vampire that was Akivasha shrinking back from the glow of the jewel; and with her, other less human shapes scuttled or shambled into the darkness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vampire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
