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Sentences starting with evil

Evil tidings-which, owing to the loss of time involved, might prove fatal. [10]
Evil will come of it if I follow you--I can not go again to Caesar. [10]
Evil is forgotten in the twinkling of an eye, and blessing is to come straight from Heaven, like quails and manna. [10]
Evil tidings must have reached her host's house, and the woman weeping so impetuously below was probably kind "Babetta. [10]
Evil tidings fly fast, however; while the men were talking together, the dragoman rode up to him and told him that his home was burnt to the ground and half Memphis still in flames. [10]
Evil demons have blinded him, for where is there a woman fairer than Nefert? [10]
Evil spirits have been at work all through, devilish, malignant demons. [10]

Sentences ending with evil

For conscience sake, you would crush out evil. [11]
Now, mention your wish; my heart is as calmly quiet as the Nile waters which are flowing by so quietly, and I am ready to hear it, be it good or evil. [10]
But yet one whom I would fain shield from evil. [10]
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
You know we were promised a knowledge of good as well as evil. [4]
The good Horus went out to fight against Seth, the murderer of his father, and the horrible enemy wounded Horus in the eye in the struggle; but the son of Osiris conquered, for good always conquers evil. [10]
Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
We are largely wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the root of the evil. [4]
And yet he was so informed with the modern spirit that he was not content, as a zealot formerly might have been, to snatch souls out of the evil that is in the world, but he strove to lessen the evil. [4]
Maria, whose life was certainly not crowded with amusements, dreaded their coming, and when they did call, endured their presence as an unavoidable evil. [10]

Short sentences using evil

For good or for evil? [10]
Was my life evil? [11]
And what is evil? [10]
And men say evil things. [11]
Barbazon had an evil face. [11]
He has the evil eye! [11]
I've fallen upon evil days. [13]
Lacenaire, evil instinct, 392. [6]
An evil wish! [10]
An evil omen! [10]

Sentences containing evil two or more times

We are dying to get a look at him, of course--though there is a horrid story about him--that he has the evil eye did you ever hear about the evil eye? [6]
Auramazda and Angramainjus, the principles of good and evil, were invisible existences filling all creation with their countless train of good and evil spirits. [10]
The good word, said at the right time, that's the word that makes us; and evil be to him that evil thinks, as Isaiah says. [5]
Could it be right, in a position of power and responsibility, to acknowledge evil and deal with it as evil? [9]
And then came perplexities, difficulties, interests, and conflicting passions in life that he had not suspected, good that looked like evil, and evil that had an alloy of virtue, and the way was confused. [4]
And when this new principle--this new proposition that no human being ever thought of three years ago--is brought forward, I combat it as having an evil tendency, if not an evil design. [7]
His confessor had indeed forbidden him to complain of the evil wherewith Heaven had punished him, but none could hinder him from bewailing the evil he had committed in his sinfulness and vanity. [10]
As a lad, I was taught to think the evil person carried evil in his face, repelling the healthy mind. [11]
That is why I should really like to save him from evil and lead him into the path of truth, but evil thoughts of him did not leave me. [2]
The misgivings thus expressed to me in confidence, natural enough in one who had already known what it is to fall on evil days and evil tongues, were but too well justified by after events. [6]

More example sentences with the word evil in them

General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
Bear witness to your friend that no evil word ever passed the lips of either of them. [10]
It would astonish you to know the extent of the evil of "absenteeism. [7]
I have found you my true and faithful friend, and I had been in danger of believing those over-anxious counsellors who spoke evil of you. [10]
I was sure you did evil because you loved it; that to gratify yourself you would spare no one: a man without pity--" "On the contrary," he interrupted, with a sour sort of smile, "pity is almost a foible with me. [11]
Go home again, you bird of evil note, go home! [12]
He had not yet come to a desire to share his secret with any confidant, but preferred to be much alone and muse on it, creating a world which was without evil, without doubt, undisturbed by criticism. [4]
The very next year the Council formally introduced the evil which they called ecclesiastical reformation. [10]
Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
But still he would never have set me free so hastily if an evil star had not brought the Swabian Junker to the spot. [10]
A fresh chapter would begin tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day was the evil thereof. [11]
It was another world, where sin and sorrow never came; a tranquil place of rest, where nothing evil entered. [12]
Every sphere of work was connected, in his eyes, with evil and deception. [2]
He heard Byng's words, and for a moment his dark eyes glowed with a look of evil satisfaction. [11]
It was a wondrous ramble; now and then I gasped for breath, yet on we went till, on the topmost bough of an oak, behold, there was Lorenz Abenberger, and the evil words he spoke made me wake up. [10]
That ugly old woman just looked at me, and if it wasn't the evil eye I shall go straight to the church and drive away the misfortune with holy water. [10]
They were sick with the evil skin, and starving. [11]
So he added with deliberation: "If alliance must still be kept with this evil government of France, then be sure there is no Vaufontaine who would care to inherit a duchy so discredited. [11]
No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength does so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength does good. [6]
He had never wished evil to any one who did not injure him, but even if he could have averted this sore sorrow from the Emperor Rudolph he would not have stirred a finger. [10]
She hath a wicked heart, and worketh evil all her days. [5]
The worst infamies which he had been taught to shun were the rounds of the ladder on which this evil man intended to mount. [10]
The evil deeds which Caracalla was now preparing to commit he would have done even if she were at his side. [10]
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you. [10]
Others, whose relations were more intimate, pressed forward to enjoy the mournful satisfaction of being the first messengers of evil tidings. [10]
There certainly never were more gods than there are now; and among those of whom the myths tell us things strange enough to bring those who worship them into contempt, or to the gallows, is the countless swarm of good and evil daimons. [10]
Suppose the man were evil, then the Church should try to snatch him like a brand from the burning. [11]
When he is well again, if he hears that I am with Caesar, in obedience to his call whenever he sends for me, and if evil tongues tell him dreadful things about me, he, too, will condemn me! [10]
Ten solidi, full weight, shall be yours if you will take Agatha home with you, or safe across the lake again, and pretend to have saved her from mystics or magicians who have decoyed her to some evil end. [10]
In his evil way, he loved his master as a Caliban might love an Apollo. [11]
But on the way thither the evil angel tempted him and he got drunk again. [5]
Was she deceived, was she dreaming or was she tricked by some evil spirit? [10]
But the evil was now too deep-rooted to be more than palliated for a time by "the little cheerful society" for which she so touchingly besought. [14]
And yet she was in evil straits. [10]
Our national aim was ever consistent with the ideal of William James, to advance democracy and put an end to the evil of war. [9]
His sinful eye was dazzled and he hid himself behind an altar, with an evil purpose in his heart, but a priest discovered him and turned him out. [5]
They said that was a sign of evil. [11]
But now there was a sense of conflict, of evil, of the indefinable things in which so many believed. [11]
In one place was a hilarious picture of a student of the green cap corps with a bottle of champagne in each hand; and below was the legend: "These make an evil fate endurable. [5]
Can a woman walk the dance with evil, and be no worse for it by-and-bye? [11]
He does not vouchsafe a glance at the jubilant crowd, but gazes down at the road, his well-shaped brow so deeply furrowed with gloom that he might be meditating some evil deed. [10]
He had retired very late to rest, and the chamberlain therefore put off waking him, especially as he had been troubled by evil dreams, in spite of his happy frame of mind when he sought his couch. [10]
It was a very curious fact that the first train of thoughts Mr. Bernard's small menagerie suggested to him was the grave, though somewhat worn, subject of the origin of evil. [6]
After hastily greeting us, he forthwith made us privy to an evil matter. [10]
New horror seized upon him; with arms flung upward to bid the specters avaunt he muttered the exorcism against the wiles of evil spirits. [10]
The water-wagtail started up, hastily smoothing her hair and casting an evil glance at her rival, "the other," the supplanter who had basely betrayed her under the sycamores; she clenched her little fist as she saw Paula watching Orion's retreating form with beaming eyes. [10]
So, to take up life and begin again was no great evil. [5]
The Ferwer keeps up a war with the Diws or evil spirits, and is the element of man's preservation in life. [10]
He was so universally amiable and complying that my evil spirit would sometimes instigate me to take advantage of his gentleness and forbearance, but nothing could disturb his equanimity. [6]
He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it. [2]
She heard her uncle, the magistrate, speak of her father's unfortunate deed, and tell the Council how the name of Herr Ernst's daughters, who were held in such honour, had become innocently, through evil gossip, the talk of the people. [10]
Nay, Art serves Truth, and Truth with Titan blows, Strikes fearless at all evil that it knows. [11]
A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
There was one trembling instant when he would have taken her hungrily into his arms, but as if some evil spirit interposed with malign purpose, there came the sound of feet on the gravel outside, and the figure of a man darkened the doorway. [11]
An evil spirit took possession of Virginia. [9]
Once again she took it out of the ivory casket in which it was kept; but so long as George sat imprisoned in the cave of the evil spirit, nothing was to be seen on its smooth surface. [10]
It would afford too much license for evil tongues. [10]
She would go to-night secretly and nail the cross again on the church door, and so stop the chatter of evil tongues. [11]
Pray to Him to whom we owe all that is good, and who tries us with the evil. [10]
She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition. [11]
It seemed best to try to mitigate the evil which I had done, so I said: 'But you wouldn't care for whale-meat if you lived there. [5]
His purpose was to trick her into heedless sayings that could indicate that the Voices had sometimes given her evil advice--hence that they had come from Satan, you see. [5]
Still, in addition to this there is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule. [7]
Thou needest not to think again of the evil dream I have related. [10]
The judge turned to the woman again, and said, in a compassionate voice-- "'Tis a poor ignorant lad, and mayhap was driven hard by hunger, for these be grievous times for the unfortunate; mark you, he hath not an evil face--but when hunger driveth--Good woman! [5]
I was chained to the evil place. [11]
Had she come to that period of reaction in evil when there is an agonised desire to turn back towards the good? [11]
She is willing to pay something for the sake of injuring the woman who stands between us, or the old man who has the good or evil fortune of being her rival's grandfather. [10]
Comets were portents to Increase Mather, President of Harvard College; "preachers of Divine wrath, heralds and messengers of evil tidings to the world. [6]
He still hugged to his evil heart the humiliating remembrance of his expulsion from this house, the share Crozier had had in it, and the things which Crozier had said to him then. [11]
Rameri went up to him, touched his shoulders and said: "We have played the game, and now must bear the consequences for good and for evil. [10]
She came near to him, but there was no encouragement to her to play that part which is a woman's deepest right and joy and pain in one--to comfort her man in trouble, sorrow, or evil. [11]
How she longed to fly into them, none but herself knew--to fly into them as into a refuge secure against the evil powers of the world. [9]
The scales seemed to fall from my eyes, and I realised why the Ueberhells had borne such an evil and dreaded name among their fellow-citizens. [10]
Presently I began to detect a most evil and searching odor stealing about on the frozen air. [5]
It appeared so to Bernard of Cluny in the twelfth century, when he wrote: "The world is very evil, The times are waning late. [4]
Whatever he tried to be, whatever he engaged in, the evil and falsehood of it repulsed him and blocked every path of activity. [2]
I don't want to be an evil prophet, but you surely remember these words. [10]
I am forced to appear as a bird of evil omen in this cheerful assembly. [10]
In these troublous times but one thing claims my thoughts, and whatever diverts them from it is evil. [10]
For the first time in her life she felt that she could hate; she longed to bring down every evil on that man's head. [10]
For the first time he felt how great a danger he ran of being dragged into this marsh and becoming a lost, evil man; but never, he thought, would he have been so corrupt, so worthless, as this prince. [10]
He travelled far through passes of the mountains, and came at last where new cities lay upon the plains, and where men were full of evil and of lust of gold. [11]
She believed that through her an evil man might be reclaimed. [13]
It was as though Ferens had stumbled and been badly hit in his fall, but there were no signs of permanent evil in his countenance. [11]
So strong was this thing that it overcame and drove off the evil spirits of that darkened house as she descended the stairs to join Mr. Tiernan, who opened the door for her to pass out. [9]
So much as this she said, though with pain and grief; but her friend was not to be moved, but cried: "And do I not thank Master Ulsenius when he thrusts his probe to the heart of my evil, when he cuts or burns it? [10]
He might be this or that, but he carried no evil or vice of character in his face. [11]
To whatever extent this may be true, I think annexation an evil. [7]
I think that this love has existed everywhere, ever since the Bible called it the root of all evil. [5]
Sabina had required this concession, since it could not be pleasant to any one visiting Lochias to be received on the threshold by an old Megaera of evil omen, and to be fallen upon by infuriated dogs. [10]
Should Barbara regard this as a good omen or an evil one? [10]
I wanted to think that out; and moreover I wanted to think out some way to reform this evil and persuade the people to let the foolish fashion die out; but thinking was out of the question in the circumstances. [5]
He tried to think of his evil deeds; and one occurred to him; indeed, it often came to his mind. [4]
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. [7]
These are the things the Government has its evil eye upon, and a happy thing it will be for Italy when they melt away in the public treasury. [5]
He had stolen things on several occasions; but the brands and scars which he bore upon his person were hidden by his new chiton and Keraunus felt in himself the power to cure him of his evil propensities. [10]
So soon as they reached Stephanus' cave, both turned their backs on Paulus with conspicuously marked intention; nay the acolyte signed his brow with the cross, as if he thought it necessary to protect himself against evil influences. [10]
To follow up these matters Akusch had afterwards betaken himself again to Alexandria; notwithstanding by this time his father had fallen on evil days. [10]
She knew now there was no evil thought in Annette. [11]

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