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  • Malign?†   (source)
  • The word "influenza" actually means a malign influence from the stars.†   (source)
  • He had his family where he seems to have wanted them—on an island, so to speak, safe from malign influences.†   (source)
  • Some malign knowledge.†   (source)
  • A whole malign history burning cold and remote and black.†   (source)
  • I, knowing less than nothing, began maligning the food.†   (source)
  • But to malign the good name of America's greatest television judge—that's below the belt."†   (source)
  • But Aarfy was already back in the apartment when Yossarian arrived, and Yossarian gaped at him with that same sense of persecuted astonishment he had suffered that same morning over Bologna at his malign and cabalistic and irremovable presence in the nose of the plane.†   (source)
  • Where, he wonders for the umpteenth time, does using one's talents to bring "glory onto God" end and the much maligned "pridefulness" begin?†   (source)
  • He never felt angry with his father, because he did not wish to ally himself with his mother, who continually maligned the man.†   (source)
  • But I pressed her, trying to make her see that all of it was a malign trick to take her money.†   (source)
  • It accumulated all week like some malign volcanic mass.†   (source)
  • It's full of malign humors."†   (source)
  • Even the tufts of weeds seemed to be battling some malign, invisible force.†   (source)
  • When the rest of the Corps returns next week, you'll see other privates like me, but I'm your first glimpse of this strange, maligned breed of cadet life.†   (source)
  • They were strollers and drop-ins, tourists and islanders alike who had come down to the bay for a late-night drink or something to eat and to look out at the forbidding statues repelling whatever malign spirits might at any moment emerge from the sea.†   (source)
  • Descended this malign, Unholy Ghost, Let us begin thy frightful Pentecost.†   (source)
  • If she had not had the misfortune of being taken prisoner at the same time as so many of the Home Army members (a stroke of bad luck further complicated by her connection with Wanda, and their common dwelling place, even though she had not lifted a finger to help the Resistance), she might have been adjudged guilty of the serious crime of meat smuggling but not of the infinitely more grave crime of subversion, and hence might not be headed for a destination so forbiddingly malign.†   (source)
  • He said he wanted to give dignity to those dances that Hollywood and the West had maligned.†   (source)
  • But the malign was still there, as well as the mercifulness.†   (source)
  • Not every child is so purposeful and malign, so consistent over time, never wavering, never doubted.†   (source)
  • You malign him.†   (source)
  • It seemed to rise with the turbulent brown river swollen by the April rains, and in the evenings lay across the blacked-out city like a mental dusk which the whole country could sense, a quiet and malign thickening, inseparable from the cool late spring, well concealed within its spreading beneficence.†   (source)
  • …was even a chance that the bar could become part of the standard-issue ration pack; in that case, if there were to be a general conscription, a further five 46 1 factories would be needed; there were some on the board who were convinced there should and would be an accommodation with Germany and that Army Amo was a dead duck; one member was even accusing Marshall of being a warmonger; but, exhausted as he was, and maligned, he would not be turned away from his purpose, his vision.†   (source)
  • Dany caught a glimpse of a malign black face, almost human, and an arched tail dripping venom …. and then the box flew from her hand in pieces, turning end over end.†   (source)
  • One did not ask many questions of one's father, but gradually the reasons became obvious: the mountains' relative lack of mosquitoes, and their distance from the big towns and cities, full of malign influences for growing boys and girls and potentially more dangerous for everyone, given the country's recent history of violence -- a history largely unknown to Deo, and indecipherable, like the whispers of an overheard conversation among elders.†   (source)
  • They can have so much, in fact, that all of those blank sheets can actually begin to cast a malign spell-better writers than I have talked about the mute challenge of all that white space, and God knows some of them have been intimidated into silence by it.†   (source)
  • But to me, Charleston is a dark city, a melancholy city, whose severe covenants and secrets are as powerful and beguiling as its elegance, whose demons dance their alley dances and compose their malign hymns to the side of the moon I cannot see.†   (source)
  • He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.†   (source)
  • Like you and me, he's forever maligned.†   (source)
  • "What that man say," said Big C. My be-kind-to-mongrel addresses usually degenerated into these backbiting arguments with Cindy Lou making deprecating remarks about the much-maligned Beau.†   (source)
  • Yet she could not rid herself: something mistaken, unbearably piteous, infinitely malign was at large within that faithfulness; she was helpless to forfend it or even to know its nature.†   (source)
  • Or would it instead, the dance ended, come back down the runway, its luminous stare locked to Oedipa's, smile gone malign and pitiless; bend to her alone among the desolate rows of seats and begin to speak words she never wanted to hear?†   (source)
  • There's no longer the slightest doubt of it; and began to sign herself with the Cross in prayer for the dead, but sharply remembering we do not know, and feeling as if she had been on the verge of exercising malign power against him, deflected the intention of the gesture towards God's mercy upon him, in whatsoever condition he might now be.†   (source)
  • Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.†   (source)
  • One was inside the flat hung up in the kitchen and the other was-or should be-in the maligned bag.†   (source)
  • Besides, the sheltering walls of Dixieland inspired him with horror—he felt that the malign influence of the house had governed his own disintegration.†   (source)
  • And this that morality again, Grandfather said: that morality which would not permit him to malign or traduce the memory of his first wife, or at least the memory of the marriage even though he felt that he had been tricked by it, not even to an acquaintance in whose confidence and discretion he trusted enough to wish to justify himself, not even to his son by another marriage in order to preserve the status of his life's attainment and desire, except as a last resort.†   (source)
  • There was no silence here, but if he dared to listen, he could hear tappings and creakings, patterings and whispers, all furtive, all malign.†   (source)
  • He could not wholly identify even the rhythm and the clap of hooves; something alien and malign had fused with all the familiar sounds and sights of the world.†   (source)
  • He was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.†   (source)
  • Willetts, I understand you've maligned me to Bishop Kane and others," began Shefford, curtly.†   (source)
  • He darted round the table, pursued by the maligned Mrs. White armed with an antimacassar.†   (source)
  • Some wicked person has been maligning me to you; but it's all right.†   (source)
  • There is no malign there, see, and so it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep.†   (source)
  • My honour is as untouched as that of the bitterest enemy who ever maligned me.†   (source)
  • Lydgate was not at all sure that the Vicar maligned himself.†   (source)
  • " exclaimed Bois-Guilbert, "thus be it to the maligners of the Temple-knights!"†   (source)
  • Ignorant, superstitious, worked upon by things as they seemed, the outlaw imagined himself at last beset by malign forces.†   (source)
  • The stink of cheap feeble cigarettes and cheap powerful cigars hovered about the table like a malign spirit; the floor was scattered with stubs, matches, old cards, and whisky bottles.†   (source)
  • And the thews of Billy were hardly compatible with that sort of sensitive spiritual organisation which in some cases instinctively conveys to ignorant innocence an admonition of the proximity of the malign.†   (source)
  • Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people, and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks—a something inhuman and malign.†   (source)
  • They would seek for something else—some malign, treacherous, deceiving power which, in the face of God's omniscience and omnipotence, still beguiles and betrays—and find it eventually in the error and perverseness of the human heart, which God has made, yet which He does not control, because He does not want to control it.†   (source)
  • This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.†   (source)
  • The flush soon left his face, however, making way for the yellow pallor that usually came to the man's face after a malign attack.†   (source)
  • Can it be that there is a malign influence of the sun at periods which affects certain natures, as at times the moon does others?†   (source)
  • Mynheer spoke in an unusually precise and compact style this afternoon, despite his fatigue from the malign attack of fever.†   (source)
  • Pickerbaugh called him a grafter, and the last time Pugh had been elected—it had been on a Reform Platform, though since that time the reform had been coaxed to behave itself and be practical—both Pugh and Pickerbaugh had denounced Jordan as a "malign force."†   (source)
  • Belknap and Jephson issuing preliminary statements framed in such a manner as to show their faith in Clyde, presenting him as being, in reality, a much maligned and entirely misunderstood youth, whose intentions and actions toward Miss Alden were as different from those set forth by Mason as white from black.†   (source)
  • But he's not here just for the fun of it, by the way, because in addition to a proper mucus obstruction caused by alcohol, it appears to be a case of a malign tropical fever, intermittent, you see, protracted, chronic.†   (source)
  • As it was, for the last several weeks the group's social activities had been restricted by the poor health of their chief, the great Pieter Peeperkorn, whose malign memento of the tropics refused to respond to either the exceptional climate or the antidotes prescribed by as excellent a physician as Director Behrens.†   (source)
  • Were my hair not white and were I not so debilitated by this malign fever, you would see me prepared to give you satisfaction, man to man, weapon in hand, for the injury I have unwittingly inflicted upon you, and for the additional injury caused by my traveling companion, for which I likewise must take responsibility.†   (source)
  • Duncan, in turning his eyes from the malign expression of Magua, suffered them to rest with pleasure on the smiling and polished features, and the noble military air, of the French general.†   (source)
  • I do not hesitate to make the remark, for I am as little disposed to flatter my contemporaries as to malign them.†   (source)
  • Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign expression and went out again without saying a word.†   (source)
  • He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one.†   (source)
  • 'Who dares malign him?†   (source)
  • One was an aged, dignified, stern-looking gentleman, clad as for a solemn festival in grave and costly attire, but with a great blood-stain on his richly wrought band; the second, an aged man, meanly dressed, with a dark and malign countenance, and a broken halter about his neck; the third, a person not so advanced in life as the former two, but beyond the middle age, wearing a coarse woollen tunic and leather breeches, and with a carpenter's rule sticking out of his side pocket.†   (source)
  • The picture seems to have a malign influence, for my mother rarely comes here without looking at it, and still more rarely does she look at it without weeping.†   (source)
  • But to men of Mr. Deane's stamp, what goes on among the young people is as extraneous to the real business of life as what goes on among the birds and butterflies, until it can be shown to have a malign bearing on monetary affairs.†   (source)
  • " cried one of them, to a sort of little, light-haired imp, with a well-favored and malign countenance, clinging to the acanthus leaves of a capital; "you are well named John of the Mill, for your two arms and your two legs have the air of four wings fluttering on the breeze.†   (source)
  • Eustacia was now no longer the goddess but the woman to him, a being to fight for, support, help, be maligned for.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bounderby still walking up and down when Mrs. Pegler had done, Mr. Gradgrind addressed that maligned old lady: 'I am surprised, madam,' he observed with severity, 'that in your old age you have the face to claim Mr. Bounderby for your son, after your unnatural and inhuman treatment of him.'†   (source)
  • The malign glance, which shot from the scowling eye of Abiram, announced the angry character of his feelings, but as the furtive look quailed, immediately, before the unmoved, steady, countenance of the squatter, it also betrayed how much the bolder spirit of the latter had obtained the mastery over his craven nature.†   (source)
  • She was incapable of elaborate artifice, and she resorted to no jocular device—to no affectation of the belief that she had been maligned—to learn what she desired.†   (source)
  • That Bathsheba could not endure this man was evident; in fact, he was continually coming to her with some tale or other, by which he might creep into favour at the expense of persons maligned.†   (source)
  • …Barnacle perceive, sir, from this little document, which he thought might carry conviction even to the perversest mind (Derisive laughter and cheering from the Barnacle fry), that within the short compass of the last financial half-year, this much-maligned Department (Cheers) had written and received fifteen thousand letters (Loud cheers), had written twenty-four thousand minutes (Louder cheers), and thirty-two thousand five hundred and seventeen memoranda (Vehement cheering).†   (source)
  • And this cruel outward accuser was there in the shape of a wife—nay, of a young bride, who, instead of observing his abundant pen-scratches and amplitude of paper with the uncritical awe of an elegant-minded canary-bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watching everything with a malign power of inference.†   (source)
  • To counteract the malign spell which she imagined poor Eustacia to be working, the boy's mother busied herself with a ghastly invention of superstition, calculated to bring powerlessness, atrophy, and annihilation on any human being against whom it was directed.†   (source)
  • Magua, who knew how to avoid the more pressing dangers, and also to elude pursuit, entered the woods through a low ravine, where he quickly found the Narragansetts, which the travelers had abandoned so shortly before, awaiting his appearance, in custody of a savage as fierce and malign in his expression as himself.†   (source)
  • While the less refined monsters of the band prepared, before the eyes of those who were to suffer, these well-known and vulgar means of torture, he approached Cora, and pointed out, with the most malign expression of countenance, the speedy fate that awaited her: "Ha!" he added, "what says the daughter of Munro?†   (source)
  • His look went from brooder's beard to carper's skull, to remind, to chide them not unkindly, then to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned.†   (source)
  • Malign such an one, the amiable Miss Callan, who is the lustre of her own sex and the astonishment of ours?†   (source)
  • "Thou art right, Sancho," returned Don Quixote; "It will be wise to let the malign influence of the stars which now prevails pass off."†   (source)
  • I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may appear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.†   (source)
  • For this maligner of the general good, If still we fear his force, he must be woo'd; His haughty godhead we with pray'rs implore, Your scepter to release, and our just rights restore.†   (source)
  • …a scout, Through dark and desert ways with peril gone All night; at last by break of cheerful dawn Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill, Which to his eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land First seen, or some renowned metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned, Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams: Such wonder seised, though after Heaven seen, The Spirit malign, but much more envy seised, At sight of all this world beheld so fair.†   (source)
  • A marsh it makes, that is named Styx, this dismal little stream, when it has descended to the foot of the malign gray slopes.†   (source)
  • …that he was bellowing like a bull, for he had no hope that day would bring any relief to his suffering, which he believed would last for ever, inasmuch as he was enchanted; and of this he was convinced by seeing that Rocinante never stirred, much or little, and he felt persuaded that he and his horse were to remain in this state, without eating or drinking or sleeping, until the malign influence of the stars was overpast, or until some other more sage enchanter should disenchant him.†   (source)
  • Right in the middle of this field malign yawns an abyss exceeding wide and deep, the structure of which I will tell of in its place.†   (source)
  • …horrid circles; two broad suns their shields Blazed opposite, while Expectation stood In horrour: From each hand with speed retired, Where erst was thickest fight, the angelick throng, And left large field, unsafe within the wind Of such commotion; such as, to set forth Great things by small, if, nature's concord broke, Among the constellations war were sprung, Two planets, rushing from aspect malign Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.†   (source)
  • …unreproved, And meek surrender, half-embracing leaned On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his, under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight Both of her beauty, and submissive charms, Smiled with superiour love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed Mayflowers; and pressed her matron lip With kisses pure: Aside the Devil turned For envy; yet with jealous leer malign Eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained.†   (source)
  • As doves, called by desire, with wings open and steady, fly through the air to their sweet nest, borne by their will, these issued from the troop where Dido is, coming to us through the malign air, so strong was the compassionate cry.†   (source)
  • And thou, highest perfection of excellence that can be desired, utmost limit of grace in human shape, sole relief of this afflicted heart that adores thee, though the malign enchanter that persecutes me has brought clouds and cataracts on my eyes, and to them, and them only, transformed thy unparagoned beauty and changed thy features into those of a poor peasant girl, if so be he has not at the same time changed mine into those of some monster to render them loathsome in thy sight,…†   (source)
  • But that ungrateful populace malign which descended from Fiesole of old,[1] and smacks yet of the mountain and the rock, will hate thee because of thy good deeds; and this is right, for among the bitter sorb trees it is not fitting the sweet fig should bear fruit.†   (source)
  • …and rejoicing was in Heaven, When such was heard declared the Almighty's will; Glory they sung to the Most High, good will To future men, and in their dwellings peace; Glory to Him, whose just avenging ire Had driven out the ungodly from his sight And the habitations of the just; to Him Glory and praise, whose wisdom had ordained Good out of evil to create; instead Of Spirits malign, a better race to bring Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite.†   (source)
  • "Thee it behoves to hold another course," he replied, when he saw me weeping, "if thou wishest to escape from this savage place; for this beast, because of which thou criest out, lets not any one pass along her way, but so hinders him that she kills him! and she has a nature so malign and evil that she never sates her greedy will, and after food is hungrier than before.†   (source)
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