malignant spirit
Example Sentences
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Alongside his wife, Lorraine, he works as a paranormal investigator, and this is hardly his first tête-à-tête with a malignant spirit.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2021
The whole campaign which had terminated so gloriously, was criticised in the most unjust and malignant spirit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
This thing is not of your own imagining: some malignant spirit has spread his baleful wing above our house.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
As the multitude surged onward toward the Jaffa gate, a cobbler named Ahasuerus, as if moved by a malignant spirit, thrust his foot before the prisoner, who stumbled thereat and fell.
From The Centurion's Story by David James Burrell
There is scarcely any malignant spirit, from a loup-garou to an ague, which cannot be found in the deserts of Aquitaine.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello
