Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Cartesian devil , under Cartesian.
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Examples
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The Malays have a bottle-imp, the polong, which will take no other sustenance than the blood of its owner, but it rewards him by aiding him in carrying out revengeful purposes.
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So that his calculations are inaccurate in your case, the balance is upset; you see, always the little bottle-imp bobbing up again.
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As it was, he there remained "bottled up," until Grant's peculiar strategy had swung him round to Petersburg; and then the "bottle-imp" was released.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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The Malays have a bottle-imp, the polong, which will take no other sustenance than the blood of its owner, but it rewards him by aiding him in carrying out revengeful purposes.
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"Know it, my sweet lump of charcoal; I'd know it among a thousand, if ye'd only use it in its own pretty natural tones; but, if you _will_ go and screech like a bottle-imp, you know," said Corrie, remonstratively,
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"Know it, my sweet lump of charcoal; I'd know it among a thousand, if ye'd only use it in its own pretty natural tones; but if you _will_ go and screech like a bottle-imp, you know," said Corrie, remonstratively,
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"Now, then, young bottle-imp, what did you mean by that?"
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I devoured it at first with the same avidity with which one might welcome a bottle-imp, who at the hour of one's dulness turned up out of the carpet and offered you delights new and old for nothing but a tether on your soul: and with a like horror, boy though I was, I recoiled from it when any better moment came.
hernesheir commented on the word bottle-imp
polong
December 22, 2010