Immediately they puffed into demonlike smoke, expanding hugely, and floated right off the planet. ❋ 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. ❋ Brooks, Terry (1992)
Against one wall, the Watcher held the Fire of Vulcan, his demonlike appearance somehow soothing. ❋ 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! ❋ Unknown (1883)
Yet in these corridors there were prostrated many absorbed and eager worshipers, seeking protection or aid from a deity more demonlike than divine. ❋ 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. ❋ Mary Frances Cusack (1864)
I felt that my persecutors who brought this trouble on me were actuated by a demonlike principle. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Then all goes black but for two demonlike eyes of light. ❋ Unknown (2011)
M* is strongly humanocentric, although "aquirs" - a powerful, dying race of demonlike entities - are a constant presence in support materials and adventures. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Heavily censored versions of Sherrod’s article began to appear on the front pages of Japanese newspapers alongside editorials celebrating the “patriotic essence” of Japanese women and children who chose “death rather than to be captured alive and shamed by the demonlike American forces.” ❋ Donald L. Miller (1945)
There are many times when the old demonlike passion flames up within me; but I can say in all humility that I have fought a great fight, and that I have had some measure of success. " ❋ Unknown (1908)
"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! ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)
