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  • He did not share Szpirglas's talent for malignant fakery.†   (source)
  • By coincidence or out of some malignant expression of humor, the house was located right behind the city morgue, a few blocks north of City Hall.†   (source)
  • The walls didn't radiate the same malignant heat.†   (source)
  • He considered the Asherah virus to be more malignant, capable of being spread through exchange of bodily fluids.†   (source)
  • Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them.†   (source)
  • It sprang again, landing just above the door, where it hung like a gigantic malignant spider, staring down at her with its cluster of eyes.†   (source)
  • " Cause and effect: he was alive despite malignant forces, and he felt himself poised on a brink of self-awareness that could not have been without the litany's magic.†   (source)
  • Once that had healed, Doctors Peter Phillips and Lewis Strauss would come up with a chemotherapy program to kill any remaining malignant cells.†   (source)
  • I hope you have better sense than that — to fall in love with someone so …. malignant.†   (source)
  • John had nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a very rare cancer, constituting less than 1 percent of all childhood malignancies.†   (source)
  • INTERSECTINGSAGAS It was just after dawn and Eragon was sitting on his cot, oiling his mail hauberk, when one of the Varden's archers came to him and begged him to heal his wife, who was suffering from a malignant tumor.†   (source)
  • It's a very small lump, her prognosis is good, but it's malignant."†   (source)
  • The shadowy recesses of the strange burrow seemed full of whispering, malignant ghosts and he recognized the forgotten voices of rabbits done to death months since in the ditches of Efrafa.†   (source)
  • Malignant paper tumor in tray two.†   (source)
  • She tried again not to think about the malignant cells invading his organs.†   (source)
  • The man nodded at the gray and malignant dawn.†   (source)
  • The invisible, malignant vessels would find a place, stop to infect it, and on his screen the malignancies would grow until they were attacked by the aircraft he controlled from this room.†   (source)
  • Didn't know about her miscarriages, or that she'd lost her husband and mother to the creep of malignancies.†   (source)
  • Rath's saga offers a glimpse of the brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world, a malignancy that is slowly gaining recognition as one of the paramount human rights problems of this century.†   (source)
  • And how could you even hope to identify the hotbeds of extremism, growing like malignancies in these vulnerable valleys, when they took such care to hide behind high walls and cloak themselves in the excuse of education?†   (source)
  • He had me go in for a biopsy, and that's when we found out it was malignant.†   (source)
  • There is one persuasive explanation for those self-annihilated soldiers, and it speaks to the corruption of Bushido that was wrought by Japan's malignant military regime.†   (source)
  • 'I'd like to meet the devil some night,' he said once with a malignant smile.†   (source)
  • I had a vision of anger spreading through me like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of my life and rendering me incapable of tenderness or mercy.†   (source)
  • They had hated him before he came, hated him while he was there, hated him after he left, carried their hatred for him away malignantly like some pampered treasure after they separated from each other and went to their solitude.†   (source)
  • A quack doctor pitched patent medicines from the back of a wagon: "A rare cordial to fortify the innards against infective parasites, unwholesome damps, and malignant effluvia!"†   (source)
  • So your suspicion for malignancy was high, right?†   (source)
  • The silence that followed his outburst had a fungus quality to it, as though it were breeding malignancies,, and I had the uncanny feeling that I had somehow been stripped naked and violated.†   (source)
  • To this "nasty way of life" Thompson attributed all the "putrid, malignant and infectious disorders" that took such a heavy toll.†   (source)
  • While healing Amos with only a soft and lingering touch, the girl detects an illness in addition to the malignancy, this one not of a physical nature but nonetheless debilitating.†   (source)
  • You malignant little fiends," he added, and I couldn't help laughing.†   (source)
  • The creases of his face were a malignant smile.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: The most profound indication of a social malignancy …. no sense of humor.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't call heart trouble, a stroke, kidney failure, and malignant spring fever worth mentioning alongside having two funerals, like my great-grandmother Arminda Tweedy, or being buried alongside Yankees at Andersonville, or dying on your wedding day.†   (source)
  • For many years, I have refused to listen as his obsessive voice narrated the malignant litany of crimes against my boyhood.†   (source)
  • Midnight and noon and dawn and dusk are the hours of danger, susceptibility to the "grahayas"— planetary spirits of malignant character.†   (source)
  • Behind the eyeholes of his yellowed skull Rattleshirt's stare was malignant, but he yielded grudgingly.†   (source)
  • Angry and malignant passions will be let loose about this subject, as in all former cases of great national debate.†   (source)
  • Louisa said the word like it was a malignancy, and then sat back and sighed.†   (source)
  • A lovely little creature but sly, spiteful, malignant perhaps, like much else in this place.†   (source)
  • I hope knowing you are not dying of a malignant tumor has your spirits high!†   (source)
  • The gaudy mushroom enlarged with incredible speed, angry, poisonous, malignant.†   (source)
  • Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.†   (source)
  • The can, hissing malignantly, bounced off the toilet and whizzed by Metzger's right ear, missing by maybe a quarter of an inch.†   (source)
  • She had not meant to, it was simple reflex; the reason she had shut music out during these days of malignant depression was that she had found she could not bear the contrast between the abstract yet immeasurable beauty of music and the almost touchable dimensions of her own aching despair.†   (source)
  • A street car raising its iron moan; stopping, belling and starting; stertorous; rousing and raising again its iron increasing moan and swimming its gold windows and straw seats on past and past and past, the bleak spark crackling and cursing above it like a small malignant spirit set to dog its tracks; the iron whine rises on rising speed; still risen, faints; halts, the faint stinging bell; rises again, still fainter, fainting, lifting, lifts, faints forgone: forgotten.†   (source)
  • Not even the malignant power of Kunthi could rouse me: I felt too remote.†   (source)
  • To Abraham Lincoln, "He was my beau ideal"; to the half-mad, half-genius John Randolph of Roanoke, he was, in what is perhaps the most memorable and malignant sentence in the history of personal abuse, "a being, so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks."†   (source)
  • It contained a frost white silk gown and a stained steel object that looked like a malignant flower.†   (source)
  • No one really believes in the malignancy of gossip, save those who know how they themselves have suffered from it; and the Slatters would have cried, had they been challenged: "We have told people nothing but the truth"—but with that self-conscious indignation that confesses guilt.†   (source)
  • He started to his feet with a malignant glance at Winston, whom he evidently suspected of having tripped him up.   (source)
    malignant = harmful or evil
  • It was explained in a little Chinese book called The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates.†   (source)
  • My lords, I must know what malignant substance Prince Oberyn used on his spear.†   (source)
  • A sense of some brooding and malignant life slumbering in the darkened cages they passed.†   (source)
  • And which ulcers in the stomach are more likely to be malignant?†   (source)
  • His lips touched against my ear in a malignant parody of a kiss.†   (source)
  • He had the most malignant manner I ever saw.†   (source)
  • : and she smiled malignantly, defiantly at me '….†   (source)
  • The colonel punished him sadistically with a long, glowering, malignant, hateful, silent stare.†   (source)
  • : and she smiled malignantly, defiantly at me '….†   (source)
  • Throughout the barracks, a malignant virility was born in the hearts of plebes.†   (source)
  • I think so, unless a malignancy develops from the burn on her finger.†   (source)
  • He found the malignant steel flower that was the knife-pistol that had killed D'Courtney.†   (source)
  • The two aging men saw her through her loneliest and most difficult hours, through the malignant limbo of turning from a howling tomboy into a young woman.†   (source)
  • There were wonderful illustrations of dwarves and fairies, and the stories told tales of mighty beings tall as giants, strong as bears, even immortal, but they were all malignant: The giants ate human beings, the dwarves were greedy for gold, the fairies were malicious and bore a grudge.†   (source)
  • Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer.†   (source)
  • For one ghastly moment, I was reminded of our afternoon in Italy, in the macabre tower room of the Volturi, where Jane had tortured Edward with her malignant gift, burning him with her thoughts alone…… The memory snapped me out of my near hysteria and put everything in perspective.†   (source)
  • Serena had worried that this might be the last time Mass General would give one of their Haitian patients free care, but less than a month after John died, she was flying back from Haiti with another child—a little girl from a village across the reservoir from Cange with a malignant tumor on her kidney but excellent prospects and well enough to fly commercially.†   (source)
  • It is in a book, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, all the bad things that can happen to you outside the protection of this house.†   (source)
  • He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else's malignant cells.†   (source)
  • They bombarded them with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones.†   (source)
  • On February 5, 1951, after Jones got Henrietta's biopsy report back from the lab, he called and told her it was malignant.†   (source)
  • When it came to growing viruses—as with many other things—the fact that HeLa was malignant just made it more useful.†   (source)
  • It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube.†   (source)
  • And by freezing cells at various points, they believed they could see the actual moment when a normal cell growing in culture became malignant, a phenomenon they called spontaneous transformation.†   (source)
  • They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta's.†   (source)
  • It was an epiphany: scientists had been trying for decades to grow immortal cell lines using normal cells instead of malignant ones, but it had never worked.†   (source)
  • This phenomenon was exciting for researchers trying to understand the mechanisms of cancer, because it suggested that they might be able to study the moment a normal cell becomes malignant.†   (source)
  • For a thorough discussion of his work on HeLa and other cultures, see G. O. Gey, "Some Aspects of the Constitution and Behavior of Normal and Malignant Cells Maintained in Continuous Culture," The Harvey Lecture Series L (1954–55).†   (source)
  • Researchers were using that growing library of cells to make historic discoveries: that cigarettes caused lung cancer; how X-rays and certain chemicals transformed normal cells into malignant ones; why normal cells stopped growing and cancer cells didn't.†   (source)
  • The idea that God chose Henrietta as an angel who would be reborn as immortal cells made a lot more sense to them than the explanation Deborah had read years earlier in Victor McKusick's genetics book, with its clinical talk of HeLa's "atypical histology" and "unusually malignant behavior."†   (source)
  • The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta's cells by saying, "its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma," and something about the "correlate of the tumor's singularity."†   (source)
  • The other unusual thing scientists had noticed about cells growing in culture was that once they transformed and became cancerous, they all behaved alike—dividing identically and producing exactly the same proteins and enzymes, even though they'd all produced different ones before becoming malignant.†   (source)
  • 28, no. 11 (1929); G. O. Gey and M. K. Gey, "The Maintenance of Human Normal Cells and Human Tumor Cells in Continuous Culture I. A Preliminary Report," American Journal of Cancer 27, no. 45 (May 1936); an overview can be found in G. Gey, F Bang, and M. Gey, "An Evaluation of Some Comparative Studies on Cultured Strains of Normal and Malignant Cells in Animals and Man," Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine (Winter 1954).†   (source)
  • Growth of the L-cell (the first immortal cell line, grown from a mouse) was documented in W R. Earle et al., "Production of Malignancy in Vitro."†   (source)
  • Writing a week later to the new president of Congress, Thomas McKean, Adams added that the doctors had administered the "all powerful [Peruvian] bark"—quinine—and that this, too, had helped to save him from a "nervous fever of a very malignant kind."†   (source)
  • SEBASTIAN: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone.†   (source)
  • Such men obeyed without question, but the deep malignant cruelty of the Brave Companions was not a part of their nature.†   (source)
  • Blockades and carpet-bombing were quickly ruled out: Clearly, the malignant Japanese war machine would capitulate only to direct and cataclysmic force.†   (source)
  • The invisible, malignant vessels would find a place, stop to infect it, and on his screen the malignancies would grow until they were attacked by the aircraft he controlled from this room.†   (source)
  • This charge is wanton and malignant.†   (source)
  • A zombi can also be the spirit of a place, usually malignant but sometimes to be propitiated with sacrifices or offerings of flowers and fruit.†   (source)
  • "The reign of Mr. Adams," said Callender, "has hitherto been one continued tempest of malignant passions."†   (source)
  • As he spoke the words, she imagined the malignant cells moving from one spot in his body to the next, a marauding army of evil that left destruction in its wake.†   (source)
  • This was the sword that cut asunder the Gordian knot which could not be untied by all the efforts of party spirit, by rivalship, by jealousy, or any other malignant fiend.†   (source)
  • When the letters keptcoming, she accused him of "vulgarisms" and worse: "There is a meanness as well as malignancy in striving to blast a work that many of the best judges of literary merit …. have spoken of [as] very flattering to the author."†   (source)
  • Lestat's eyes burned with a keen fascination, a malignant pleasure: " 'You made us what we are, didn't you?' she accused him.†   (source)
  • They were elite and slim and malignant.†   (source)
  • There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.†   (source)
  • But I felt its malignant presence in that slow ride toward the barracks, through those charming streets of immense, enduring houses, through darkness and sadness and rain.†   (source)
  • His eyes had cleared, and Pig was crouched in an oddly distorted, yet ceremonial, position as though he were offering prayers to a ruthless and malignant deity.†   (source)
  • McLean looks at him like he is looking at a urine sample," I said, leaning forward and staring malignantly into Tradd's eyes.†   (source)
  • I told them of my visits to Gilbreath and Pearce, of my rising awareness that we were helpless before the inspired, solitary malignancy of the intrigue against us.†   (source)
  • The wind whipped malignantly from the river and the waves crashed over the trailer to wash and numb his feet.†   (source)
  • This night's profusion of post horns, this malignant, deliberate replication, was their way of beating up.†   (source)
  • I had never met the man, but many of my white friends had pictured him as a malignant tumor, demented, loco, a drug addict, an incompetent, a carpetbagger, an unregenerated liar who should have his gonads cut off and hung like two trophies in the chamber of commerce building.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it possible, he asked Sophie once—and, he added, speaking as a cellular biologist—that on the level of human behavior the Nazi phenomenon was analogous to a huge and crucial colony of cells going morally berserk, creating the same kind of danger to the body of humanity as does a virulently malignant tumor in a single human body?†   (source)
  • She is important to this story for the perverse psychic effect she had on me—an effect which for a time, though mercifully brief, malignantly colored my final relationship with Sophie.†   (source)
  • The back of the head burst out and the loved, the adored, the worshipped figure crumpling unbelievably, tearing at their hearts while they moaned and crawled across the floor to snatch a malignant steel flower from the waxen— "Get up, Linc!†   (source)
  • Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: that what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all.†   (source)
  • His tone was malignant.†   (source)
  • And there is this: although the Home Army, like members of the Resistance elsewhere in Europe, had other concerns besides the succor and safekeeping of the Jews (as indeed there were one or two partisan factions in Poland that remained malignantly anti-Semitic), such help, generally speaking, was still high on their list of priorities; thus it is safe to say that it was at least partly because of their efforts in behalf of some of these incessantly stalked, mortally endangered Jews…†   (source)
  • The look in his eyes was now frankly malignant.†   (source)
  • And the pearl was ugly; it was gray, like a malignant growth.†   (source)
  • With its small, rudimentary ears, this head had a positively malignant look.†   (source)
  • Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence.†   (source)
  • For a long time there had been rumors — circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy — that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.†   (source)
  • He was free to do so, for the first time—for, since the disappearance of his cousin, he had either been imprisoned by the malignant queens or else he had been discharging his obligations to the girl who had rescued him from them.†   (source)
  • When in this mood even the highest gods appear as malignant, life-hoarding ogres, and the hero who deceives, slays, or appeases them is honored as the savior of the world.†   (source)
  • An unlighted, unpaved stretch of waterfront lay before him, sagging structures and empty spaces of sky, warehouses, a crooked cornice hanging somewhere over a window with a malignant light.†   (source)
  • Dona Clara was in the hands of malignant Nature who reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.†   (source)
  • The instructions began with a bald statement that a few cases of a malignant fever had been reported in Oran; it was not possible as yet to say if this fever was contagious.†   (source)
  • The air and the earth were filled with malignant spirits who could not endure the happiness of mortals, especially of such as are poor.†   (source)
  • Every time she thought of that malignant black face peering at her from the shadows of the twilight forest road, she fell to trembling.†   (source)
  • And this is a zone of unsuspected presences, benign as well as malignant: an angel appears, a helpful animal, a fisherman, a hunter, crone, or peasant.†   (source)
  • The hero can go forth of his own volition to accomplish the adventure, as did Theseus when he arrived in his father's city, Athens, and heard the horrible history of the Minotaur; or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent, as was Odysseus, driven about the Mediterranean by the winds of the angered god Poseidon.†   (source)
  • Roark saw a grimy desolation of tenements, sagging hulks of what had been red brick, crooked doorways, rotting boards, strings of gray underclothing in narrow air shafts, not as a sign of life, but as a malignant growth of decomposition.†   (source)
  • Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. ms Compare the following Christian letter: In the Year of Our Lord1682 To ye aged and beloved, Mr. John Higginson: There he now at sea a ship called Welcome, which has on board too or more of the heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is the chief scamp, at the head of them.†   (source)
  • The woman walking by his side with her malignant lying positively horrified him.†   (source)
  • The woman's face lit up with a malignant anger.†   (source)
  • To be rocked by this malignant torturer was her lot.†   (source)
  • From another corner stole a withered hag with streaming grey hair and malignant eyes.†   (source)
  • "Like hob!" sneered his wife, with a sudden malignant flash of eyes that was a revelation to Milly.†   (source)
  • And so our vague Peeperkorn was carried off by his malignant tropical fever, is that it?†   (source)
  • Was he our malignant enemy, or was he by chance our guardian angel?†   (source)
  • He tugged at his hip, his face corded with purple welts, malignant, murderous.†   (source)
  • Into his snarl he incorporated all that was vicious, malignant, and horrible.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Jett came out of her tent, with slow, dragging step, and a face drawn, pale, malignant.†   (source)
  • Riggs heard her reply, for he turned a malignant glance upon her.†   (source)
  • For I had come to see a malignant devil in him which impelled him to hate all the world.†   (source)
  • Beard, Jones, Williams, former faithful allies of Kells, showed a malignant opposition.†   (source)
  • The liability is that his part helplessness will make him more malignant than ever.†   (source)
  • His working, fiercely malignant visage as suddenly set somberly.†   (source)
  • His eyes looked malignantly at me, and his gray whiskers bristled like those of an angry cat.†   (source)
  • When Weedon and Maud had first approached him, he growled warningly and looked malignant.†   (source)
  • 'That we believe,' snorted the cultivator's wife malignantly.†   (source)
  • But the vengeance of Magua sought a deeper and more malignant enjoyment.†   (source)
  • But the general aspect of the swamp was malignant.†   (source)
  • His face was suddenly solemn and impressive, which gave him a positively malignant look.†   (source)
  • They looked like avenging dragons driving a foul malignant fiend out of a beauteous palace.†   (source)
  • But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.†   (source)
  • Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.†   (source)
  • 'Their Gods are many-armed and malignant.†   (source)
  • Go, malignant monster—why do you delay?†   (source)
  • Then Sviazhsky spoke, and then the malignant gentleman again.†   (source)
  • His moans become nasty, disgustingly malignant, and go on for whole days and nights.†   (source)
  • Ivan went on in the same whisper, with a malignant grimace.†   (source)
  • The moral of the story is that the temptations of the flesh are pernicious and malignant.†   (source)
  • A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed.†   (source)
  • "Anyway, in a year you will be worth less," I continued malignantly.†   (source)
  • Mitya seized his hand to press it, but there was a malignant gleam in the old man's eye.†   (source)
  • "Well, have you seen him?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch with a malignant smile.†   (source)
  • I have seen Charles of Burgundy drunk, and he was less malignant than Louis XI. when ailing.†   (source)
  • He looked intently at "the boy" and smiled gloomily and malignantly.†   (source)
  • "I certainly shall not, under any circumstances," answered the malignant gentleman.†   (source)
  • On the left hand sat Nevyedovsky with his youthful, stubborn, and malignant face.†   (source)
  • "This is he who should be an elder," others added malignantly.†   (source)
  • The words broke involuntarily, and almost malignantly, from Dmitri.†   (source)
  • Fyodor Pavlovitch did not catch, or would not catch, the malignancy, but he caught the smile.†   (source)
  • Remembering that now, he smiled quietly and malignantly, hesitating for a moment.†   (source)
  • In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.†   (source)
  • The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.†   (source)
  • Red, sweaty, disheveled, and hatless, his face distorted and expressive of the most malignant intent, he was a wild and sinister figure.†   (source)
  • To him the police were always actuated by malignant impulses and the rest of the world was composed, for the most part, of despicable creatures who were all trying to take advantage of him and with whom, in defense, he was obliged to quarrel on all possible occasions.†   (source)
  • Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.†   (source)
  • He smiled malignantly and said "No."†   (source)
  • The centuries that they have gone through—centuries of blind and malignant oppression, of ostracism from public employment, of being, as it were, a small beleagured garrison in a hostile country, and therefore having to act with great formality—all these things have combined to perform that conjuring trick.†   (source)
  • Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.†   (source)
  • As the shuffling crowd began to snicker and whisper, Riggs gave Dale a malignant glance, shifted it to Helen, and then lurched away in the direction of his gun.†   (source)
  • Though nobody spoke to him of the affair after class he could feel about him a vague general malignant joy.†   (source)
  • The subscription was small, and the room homely; and Jude's activity, uncustomary acquirements, and above all, singular intuition on what to read and how to set about it—begotten of his years of struggle against malignant stars—had led to his being placed on the committee.†   (source)
  • His big fists were clenching and unclenching, and his face was positively fiendish, so malignantly did he look at Johnson.†   (source)
  • Then he passed Joan, looking down upon her and then upon the recumbent figure of Kells; and if his glance was not baleful and malignant, as it swept over the bandit, Joan believed her imagination must be vividly weird, and running away with her judgment.†   (source)
  • He was terrible—relating this to me—this tortured skeleton of a man drawn up together with his face over his knees, upon a miserable bed in that wretched hovel, and lifting his head to look at me with malignant triumph.†   (source)
  • Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his smile look malignant and saturnine.†   (source)
  • How that stupid, dull Englishman ever came to be admitted within the intellectual circle which revolved round "the cleverest woman in Europe," as her friends unanimously called her, no one ventured to guess—golden key is said to open every door, asserted the more malignantly inclined.†   (source)
  • Don Carlos gave Stewart one long malignant stare; then he threw back his head, swept up the sombrero, and his evil smile showed gleaming teeth.†   (source)
  • Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.†   (source)
  • Suspicion in the Oriental is a sort of malignant tumour, a mental malady, that makes him self-conscious and unfriendly suddenly; he trusts and mistrusts at the same time in a way the Westerner cannot comprehend.†   (source)
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