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
Nothing was said about the malignant spirit beyond the fact that it was someone "haunting" Henry Halifax.
From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine
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
You never were rebellious to the lawes, Your greatest crime was harmelesse honest mirth; What fell malignant spirit was there found To cast your tall Piramides to ground?
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
I can only add that I deeply deplored my unguarded words to Miss Greenlow, when I told her I was sure there was some malignant spirit in the joss-house.
From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine
