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  • This was the training he had received from Harris Collins, who, withal he was a sentimental and doting husband and father, was the arch-devil when it came to animals other than human ones, and who reigned in an animal hell which he had created and made lucrative.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • Over these princes they conceive one monarch above them all, and that is Samael, the angel of death, the arch-devil.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Add to 'em now the arch-devil, Suleiman Usman, who has stolen away Mrs Flashman in dastardly fashion.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • Mühlhausen, where the arch-devil himself presides. '

    Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

  • On April 26 Münzer advanced to Mühlhausen, the 'arch-devil,' as

    Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

  • This was the training he had received from Harris Collins, who, withal he was a sentimental and doting husband and father, was the arch-devil when it came to animals other than human ones, and who reigned in an animal hell which he had created and made lucrative.

    Chapter 22 1917

  • And then it was that I fell in with that arch-devil, that master rogue whose deeds had long been a terror throughout the Main, a fellow more bloody than any

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Therefore it must have been the arch-devil himself who said, as we read in the ecclesiastical law, If the Pope were so perniciously wicked, as to be dragging souls in crowds to the devil, yet he could not be deposed.

    (a) The First Wall. The Three Walls of the Romanists. That the Temporal Power has no Jurisdiction over the Spirituality 1909

  • Lascelles said, 'that this lady is such an one as will listen to no reason nor policy, neither will she palter, for whatever device, with them that have not lifelong paid lip-service to the arch-devil whose seat is in Rome.'

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • King to levy arms, in the name of that arch-devil, the Bishop of Rome, against their goodly King Henry, upon whom God shed His peace.

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

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