Fiendish

Examples

• Now the two great fleets closed in a titanic struggle far above the fiendish din of battle in the gorgeous gardens of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Then there rose suddenly above the fiendish cries of the dancing demons the awful challenge of the ape-man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Those revolutionists who see the misery of the country as a deliberate and fiendish plot overestimate the bad will, the intelligence and the singleness of purpose in the ruling classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When I quitted Geneva, my first labour was to gain some clue by which I might trace the steps of my fiendish enemy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The whole party, Small included, are blackened with dust and dirt and present a fiendish appearance not relieved by the general aspect of the room. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As they saw us a fiendish shout of triumph rose from their ranks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Does our fiendish contemporary wince? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He knew, too, that they seldom lost much time before consummating the fiendish purpose of their captures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Editor: Stephen