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Immediately they puffed into demonlike smoke, expanding hugely, and floated right off the planet.

Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

"Wren, wait, what are you ...?" he began futilely for she was already hastening to rouse the others, anxious that there be no delays, so worried and distracted that she missed the fear that sprang demonlike into his eyes.

The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

Against one wall, the Watcher held the Fire of Vulcan, his demonlike appearance somehow soothing.

Killing Time Della Van Hise 1990

` ` Good heavens! to be her lover, to be her chattel, to belong to her, to devote one's whole existence to her, to spend one's last half-penny and to sink in misery, only to have the glory and the happiness of possessing her splendid beauty, the sweetness of her kisses, the pink and the white of her demonlike soul all to myself, if only for a few months!

Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life 1883

Yet in these corridors there were prostrated many absorbed and eager worshipers, seeking protection or aid from a deity more demonlike than divine.

A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Augustus Hopkins Strong 1878

The action of the Irish Catholics was paralyzed through fear of the demonlike cruelties which even a successful revolution might induce; and the general fear which the aristocratic party had of giving freedom to the uneducated classes, influenced them to a fatal silence.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

I felt that my persecutors who brought this trouble on me were actuated by a demonlike principle.

A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1856

The scene was now inexpressibly terrific; cries and groans, and the ineffable roar and yell of human passion, resounded demonlike through the shade of the leafless trees.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The scene was now inexpressibly terrific; cries and groans, and the ineffable roar and yell of human passion, resounded demonlike through the shade of the leafless trees.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Then all goes black but for two demonlike eyes of light.

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