demoniac

How To Use demoniac In A Sentence

• He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac. Reflections on Self-Regard
• Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid, decadent, demoniac. The House Beautiful
• Charles, "would he say," the thin-blooded wand of forty years ago in a brocaded waistcoat and a pair of dancing-shoes seeking his way through a labyrinth of demoniac trees, shivering half with cold and half with terror like a _forcat_ from the _bagne_ of Doom Castle
• 'demoniac' manner of contemporary tragedians, I take leave to think that no player has been more worthy to wear the _canons_ of M.scarille or the gown of Vadius than M. Coquelin of the Comédie Francaise. Letters to Dead Authors
• Oh, he's always stunning… but when he's sitting and doing nothing he looks angelic and all the rest of the time demoniac.
• Eustace's first act was to bless a holy well at Wye, where many healing miracles were reported and a woman was cured of demoniac possession.
• When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set about his purpose by first snatching the young babe and casting it into the fire! Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
• Demoniacal... "Anastasia could tell, when he got to demoniacal, that he was going to go on for quite a while. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
• We may quite allowably heighten the above picture by supposing that the person in her trance, in addition to being mad, might have displayed some of the perceptive powers occasionally developed in trance; and so have evinced, in addition to her demoniacal ferocity, an "uncanny" knowledge of things and persons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
• -- The word rendered "devils," is always used for those spiritual agents employed in demoniacal possessions -- never for the ordinary agency of Satan in rational men. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible