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  • adjective as if possessed by demons

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Examples

  • The writing is vivid and thrilling, and the story completely absorbing, with its pregnant Indian nun, demon-ridden British surgeon, Siamese twins orphaned and severed at birth, and narrative strands stretching across four continents.

    Cutting For Stone: Summary and book reviews of Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. 2009

  • Do you side with the Templars and kill all the Mages in the demon-ridden Tower, or rescue them?

    Dragon Age: Origins (PS3) – Final Review 2009

  • Volias, glancing past them, got an awful look on his face and ran as if demon-ridden toward the mess by the wagon.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • Moments like this offer revealing glimpses of a darker, demon-ridden side to James Boswell's nature that can't be detected in Sisman's sparkling, companionable, and intelligent account.

    Bozzy's Life 2001

  • There was no sign of sanity there, and he wondered wildly if this were the real Amberdrake after all-if the man was demon-ridden, and this demonic side of him had been the one responsible for the murders!

    The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • This article led to a polemic between Oulianoff and Professor Zbigniew Folejewski about the role of Pushkin as the originator of the image of "demon-ridden St. Petersburg," in the course of which a number of other commentators on this story were mentioned.

    Slavism Karlinsky, Simon 1971

  • The odor of the incense was everywhere; and the mystic scent and warmth of the inner air contrasted well with the shrieking of the demon-ridden wind outside the house.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • Porthcurnow, the miserable man's present abode, you will find nestling amid the grim cliffs near the Land's End. And if you doubt this sad history of the demon-ridden Tregeagle, go and look at the Looe Bar and explain if you can how otherwise so strange a place could have been created.

    Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway. George Basil Barham

  • To the wind and the waves, and to the demon-ridden mind of the man possessed, He had but to speak and be obeyed.

    Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

  • A woman half mad with anguish for her demon-ridden daughter, calling after Him with the shrill shriek of Eastern sorrow and disturbing the fine nerves of the disciples, but causing no movements nor any sign that He even heard, or if He heard, heeded, the ear-piercing and heart-moving cries.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

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