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Example sentences for "vampyre"

Lexicographically close words:
vamp; vampire; vampires; vampirism; vamps; vampyres; van; vana; vanadate; vanadic
  1. Ustrels, a species of vampyre in Bulgaria, supposed to attack cattle, x.

  2. The landlord of the inn was likely to make a good thing of it, for talking makes people thirsty; and he began to consider that a vampyre about once a-year would be no bad thing for the Blue Lion.

  3. The vampyre has killed Charles Holland--the dreadful vampyre!

  4. Who knows,' thought I, 'but some blessed vampyre or another may come across me.

  5. Then I say we believe, as far as human judgment has a right to go, that a vampyre has been here.

  6. Why, certainly, to remove from Bannerworth Hall is a much less evil than to remain at Bannerworth Hall, and be haunted by a vampyre; but then that proposition takes for granted that vampyre business, which I will never grant.

  7. A wager for one thing, and a wish to see the vampyre for another.

  8. A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet and turns with gloomy appetite to the images of pain.

  9. A vampyre may be the soul of any outcast from the Church, or one over whose corpse, before burial, a cat has leaped or a bird flown.

  10. This fact would seem to show that the fear is for the living, lest the soul of the deceased should enter the animal and become one of the innumerable werewolf or vampyre class of demons.

  11. The universal belief is, that a person sucked by a vampyre becomes a vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.

  12. The tongue of the vampyre I have not had an opportunity of observing, but those of several Ternat bats which M.

  13. They belong exclusively to the Old Continent; and in no part either of Africa or Asia are they so numerous as the vampyre is in America.

  14. The Vampyre was another of the strange imaginings of our forefathers.

  15. The vampyre was a terror of the night, since the corpse then, after lying in the stillness of the grave throughout the day, awoke to a fearful vitality.

  16. The vampyre bat, a native of South America, is so called from its blood-sucking propensities.

  17. The natural tendency towards exaggeration surrounded the vampyre bat with a mysterious horror, and having once gained its name of ill-omen, it became easy to rear upon it a superstructure of morbid fancy.

  18. FN#498] In the opinion of Benfey all the Vampyre Tales are of Buddhist extraction (some are unquestionably so), and they probably date from before our era.

  19. There is a great variety of species, from the common bat of our climate to the vampyre of South America, whose wings stretch to the extent of two feet.

  20. On examining his foot, I found the vampyre had tapped his great toe.

  21. In the tropical isles they have but four species of quadrupeds, two of which are domestic; and the remaining ones are the vampyre and the common rat.

  22. The vampyre is only seen in the more western isles.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vampyre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.