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

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 Kennedy, John Pendleton

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

He seemed to be a most malignant spirit.

From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus

There is nothing far-fetched in the native superstition that puts a malignant spirit in the wind; it is the most natural feeling in the world.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson