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malice ,malicious .
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Examples
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And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.
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Next day that there little thing looked so maliceful when he came for the flax.
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But the good champion Ethelred, now entering within the door, was soar enraged and amazed to perceive no signal of the maliceful hermit; but, in the stead thereof, a dragon of a scaly and prodigious demeanor, and of a fiery tongue, which sate in guard before a palace of gold, with a floor of silver; and upon the wall there hung a shield of shining brass with this legend enwritten:
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Next day that there little thing looked so maliceful when he came for the flax.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Next day that there little thing looked so maliceful when he came for the flax.
English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.
English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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Next day, that there little thing looked soo maliceful when he come for the flax.
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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But she niver hot on the right one. An 'as that got to-warts the ind o' the month, the impet that began for to look soo maliceful, an 'that twirled that's tail faster an' faster each time she gave a guess.
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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'But the good champion Ethelred, now entering within the door, was sore enraged and amazed to perceive no signal of the maliceful hermit; but, in the stead thereof, a dragon of a scaly and prodigious demeanour, and of a fiery tongue, which sate in guard before a palace of gold, with a floor of silver; and upon the wall there hung a shield of shining brass with this legend enwritten --
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