incubus
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Either side of this 10-foot incubus Bryan Robson and Peter Shilton pose supportively, like game but frightened parents.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020
But, as Pope Francis has said, there is a moral incubus on mankind to make a reality of Article 6 of the agreement pledging the abolition of nuclear weapons altogether.
From US News ● Aug. 10, 2015
At some midpoint in this incubus, it seemed that nothing would ever seem stupid, or at least surprisingly stupid, ever again.
From Slate
He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society."
From Time Magazine Archive
The passing of this melancholy incubus made a new epoch in his life.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee
All so they can keep expanding, squatting over lives like feudal incubi.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2018
They form and re-form bureaucratic incubi that mock Us with Our own impotence and trip Us up with rules only They understand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2011
This situation crops up in folk literature, with tales of changelings or of sleeping women seduced and impregnated by incubi, and occasionally appears in popular entertainments like The Bad Seed and Rosemary's Baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh! the many many hours, that I have groaned under the terrible incubi which the fits of real delirium evoke.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Why should these incubi intrude And plague us night and morn?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
For, as Apuleius informs us in his book concerning the Demon of Socrates, between the moon and the earth inhabit those spirits, which we will call incubuses.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
One of my friends made me laugh the other day, when, speaking of the pretended incubuses, he said that those who believed in them were not wise to marry.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry
Vocabulary lists containing incubus
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale
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