the Evil Spirit
Example Sentences
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The Society of Tammany was first used as a power instrument by a politician whose contact with the Evil Spirit was more caress than competition: Aaron Burr.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit with a hip lock and tried to roll him into the Ohio River.
From Time Magazine Archive
His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when the sun rose next morning, he saw that the plan of the Evil Spirit was being carried out, for all around him lay water.
From Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister
Perhaps the Evil Spirit wanted to add to the treasures that he had gathered from all the ships he had wrecked—treasures that he kept far beneath the water.
From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Millicent Schwab Bender
