Fiend

//fiːnd//

"Fiend" in a Sentence (19 examples)

As he stood there he might have been a fiend.

"Then wars shall cease and savage times grow mild, / and Remus and Quirinus, brethren twain, / with hoary Faith and Vesta undefiled, / shall give the law. With iron bolt and chain / firm-closed the gates of Janus shall remain. / Within, the Fiend of Discord, high reclined / on horrid arms, unheeded in the fane, / bound with a hundred brazen knots behind, / and grim with gory jaws, his grisly teeth shall grind."

There, mute, and, as the traitress deemed, unknown, / dreading the Danaan's vengeance, and the sword / of Trojans, wroth for Pergamus o'erthrown, / dreading the anger of her injured lord, / sat Troy's and Argos' fiend, twice hateful and abhorred.

So spake the Fiend, and backward to the wood / soared on the wing.

“You fiend!” he kept on muttering, “you clever, clever fiend!”

The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from Malleus Malificarum, Sprengerus, Remigius, and other learned demonologists, that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning.

The hermit maintained that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning.

Karol Pazúr was a fiend who slaughtered men, women and children, including toddlers.

His angelic face hid the fiend within.

Tom's a coke fiend.

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what God or Feend, or ſpirit of the earth, Or Monſter turned to a manly ſhape, Or of what mould or mettel he be made, […]

Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!

We waited for our fiend to arrive.

At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […]. This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […]

He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.

Now the sign of the Lamb is a modern daub, not that which hung like a "banner on the outward wall," when the celebrated "cigar-fiend" used to haunt the hostelrie consuming incredible quantities of the best Havanas.

You could hear him putting away his crumby toilet articles and all, and opening the window. He was a fresh-air fiend.

I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you / And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm fiendin'

I am back in San Francisco at the Clift Hotel, fiending for my fix.

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