Strangely enough, however, there are many persons whom vampires will never bite.
Then there are other vampires which eat fruit, like the flying foxes, about which we shall have something to tell you soon.
He was soon again surrounded by the well-bred vampires who had forgotten him when penniless; but they amused him, and that was enough.
It is the nature of vampires to increase and multiply, but according to an ascertained and ghostly law.
And the water-nymphs and vampireswere all around her.
And never again did the nymphs and the vampires come near to harm them.
And the nymphs and the vampires were more than ever afraid to come near White Caroline, and she was very glad of that indeed.
From what they said it's fair crawlin' with snakes and jaggers and lizards and bloody vampires and spiders as big as yer fist.
The food they have stolen, these vampires vainly imagine will enable them to rise to a higher spiritual plane.
Though far fewer in number than they were, and more than ever confined to certain localities, I am quite sure that vampires are by no means extinct.
So much for vampires in the country and in crowded cities, but, as I have already remarked, they are ubiquitous.
I believe a large percentage of idiots and imbecile epileptics owe their pitiable plight to vampires which, in their infancy, they had the misfortune to attract.
Tylor considers vampires to be "causes conceived in spiritual form to account for specific facts of wasting disease.
The seven evil spirits of Assyria are, among other things, vampires of no uncertain type.
Babylonian Vampires In all lands and epochs the grisly conception of the vampire has gained a strong hold upon the imagination of the common people, and this was no less the case in Babylonia and Assyria than elsewhere.
Their restless ghosts wandered about as vampiresor other malicious spooks until their crimes had been expiated by digging up their bodies and suspending them from the gallows.
We are more correct in considering as parasites the Vampires (Phyllostoma), those audacious bats of South America, which settle on the sleeping traveller or his beasts, and suck their blood by means of the sharp papillae of their tongue.
While I was passing a day or two at his house, the vampires sucked his son a boy of about ten or eleven years old, some of his fowls and his jack-ass.
In them dwelt the orders of witches, sorceresses, hierodules, priestesses, and vampires attached to the far-famed and infamous temple across the square.
Let us behold the witches who wander abroad; the vultures that snatch at the bodies of the fallen in the pale beams of Sin; and the vampires and ghouls that haunt the Great City by night.
It is called alpzopf and schraitelzopf, as being the result of the malefices of vampires and incubi.
The miraculous conservation of bodies recorded by Calmet in his History of Vampires was nothing more than instances of a similar preservation.
Driven by the tempest and by vengeance, they were like a terrible company of vampires or evil spirits in that wild steppe.
She feared vampires especially; belief in them was spread particularly in the Dniester country by reason of nearness to Moldavia, and just the places around Yampol and Rashkoff were ill-famed in that regard.
Algernon Blackwood, who has touched upon every terrible aspect of supernaturalism, gives us two types of vampires in his story, The Transfer.
Of course, all vampires live to a strange lease on life, but most of them are spirits rather than human beings as was Dracula.
Theosophists, according to the Occult Magazine, believe in vampires even in the present.
Botany furnishes its ghostly plots in fiction as well as other branches of science, for we have plant vampires and witches and devils.
Locked within them were the pools of liquid that could dissolve a living body into food for these vampires of the vegetable world.
The "Vampires of Venus" can be classed as a fairly good satire on Earth beings; I consider that story one with a moral.
I am especially interested in the stories like the "Vampires of Venus" and the "Brigands of the Moon.
And in the broad daylight Ethel's tales of vampires seemed once more impossible and absurd.
In northern Rhode Island those who die of consumption are believed to be victims of vampires who work by charm, draining the blood by slow draughts as they lie in their graves.
The wizard raised his axe: the devils and vampires gathered to drink the blood and clutch the escaping soul, when in a lightning flash the girl's despairing glance fell on the face of Chamberlain.
Sidenote: Earth-men war on frog-vampires for the emancipation of the human cows of Earth's second satellite.
Even if the Venerians knew nothing of entomology, they should have brains enough to get rid of the vampires the way Leslie Larner did without having to call an Earthman to help them.
Thus, properly speaking, kings are not vampires; the true vampires are the monks, who eat at the expense of both kings and people.
These vampires were corpses, who went out of their graves at night to suck the blood of the living, either at their throats or stomachs, after which they returned to their cemeteries.
We never heard a word ofvampires in London, nor even at Paris.
But all these stories, however true they might be, had nothing in common with the vampires who rose to suck the blood of their neighbors, and afterwards replaced themselves in their coffins.
Finally, Calmet became their historian, and treated vampires as he treated the Old and New Testaments, by relating faithfully all that has been said before him.
Who would believe that we derive the idea of vampires from Greece?
Men who lived in those days had many an evil thing to dread, for wolves, ghouls, and vampires were as terribly real to them as in our day are the microbes of cancer, of fever, or of tuberculosis.
If we are to conciliate this unthinkable and unspeakable practice of vampires feeding on women's virtue, we might as well back-pedal in the progress of the nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vampires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
