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Demon   /dˈimən/   Listen
Demon

noun
1.
An evil supernatural being.  Synonyms: daemon, daimon, devil, fiend.
2.
A cruel wicked and inhuman person.  Synonyms: devil, fiend, monster, ogre.
3.
Someone extremely diligent or skillful.  "She's a demon at math"



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"Demon" Quotes from Famous Books



... have disgraced her by robbing her from her lawful husband. So Death stepped in and gave her to me—forever!" and he raised his eyes to the solemn starlit sky. "Yes, nothing can ever come between us now; no demon tears her white soul from me; she died innocent of evil, and she is mine—mine in every pulse of her being, as we ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... we read: "What is this world? A wager between Christ and the Demon. Thousands of years ago he challenged God, and when the great game began, they played with great loose rocks from the hills, at quoits, and if any one is unwilling to believe this, let him go to Mount Leberon and see the ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... she was not a demon in any way, she made him the bearer of a letter from her to the people in the town. The negotiations between the army and the burghers lasted five days; the town refusing to admit the King, and the King ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower
... intercourse indulged in and allowed to both sexes before marriage," we see that what at first seemed a virtue is really a mark of lower degradation. Some of the oldest legislators, like Zoroaster and Solon, already recognized the truth that it was far better to sacrifice a few women to the demon of immorality than to expose them all to contamination. The wild tribes of India in general have not yet arrived at that point of view. In their indifference to chastity they rank with the lowest savages, and usually there is a great deal of promiscuous ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... rage which would have been frightful to see on the face of a weaker man, but on his, with all the power and determination of his strong character behind it, it was appalling. It made them feel that they were held helpless by a powerful demon who would destroy and kill any who might stand in his way. Pushing everyone aside in a manner that was entirely foreign to him, he sprang to the wheel and taking it rang for full speed ahead. He swung the ship around ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney


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