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  • They spun through the air like the parts of some infernal machine, an effect that was heightened by the flashes of light from whenever the candle's flame was reflected on the surface of the blades.†   (source)
  • A sudden infernal noise rocked the building.†   (source)
  • The heat was infernal.†   (source)
  • Because the only way I would ever be able to leave my family was if Will decided, after all, that he was still determined to go to this infernal place in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town.†   (source)
  • And ...and what was that infernal beeping sound in the distance?†   (source)
  • Indeed, not only had Owen and I quit the team—and that infernal game—forever; other members of our Little League team had used the upsetting incident as a means to get out of a tedious obligation that had been much more their parents' notion of something that was "good for them" than it had ever been their sport of choice.†   (source)
  • About"—I hold out my hands, glaring at the infernal things—"this?"†   (source)
  • Four more lines needed casting off, and then we'd no longer be tethered to that infernal little pirate ship.†   (source)
  • Cautiously, the two of them read over the infernal recipe, step by step, trying to make sense of it.†   (source)
  • If it means an end to this infernal war, ma'am, peace at last, we'll do anything.†   (source)
  • They seemed drawn to him as if he possessed some priceless but infernal treasure.†   (source)
  • All the Infernal Worlds know it—I know it—I can tell you where he is—" Rage flared suddenly in Jace's icy eyes.†   (source)
  • He described him as a cross between a billy goat and a female heretic, an infernal beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed women.†   (source)
  • She even fired the colored household help because she swore they were an infernal conspiracy and were stealing out from her nose.†   (source)
  • We were coming closer and closer to the pit, from which an infernal heat was rising.†   (source)
  • I struggled and struggled and became wet with perspiration, but I did not want to admit defeat and pick the infernal thing up with my hands.†   (source)
  • Finally he goes to the Nurses' Station and raps on a pane of glass till the Big Nurse swivels in her chair and opens the door, and he asks her how about turning that infernal noise off for a while.†   (source)
  • I'll just show him out and then we can get to our infernal waltzing.†   (source)
  • Nothing in this infernal case seemed to be normal.†   (source)
  • There was a pathetic pile of crap books, decks of cards, and the infernal televisions, always on, always at full volume.†   (source)
  • You infernal old rascal, I've caught up with you," he whispered, leaning close to his host.†   (source)
  • They brought steel and beef and infernal devices, which made people lazy and stupid!†   (source)
  • Pressing it tightly to his face, he snatched up his cane and slid his infernal bulk across the seat.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that "some infernal has whispered in your ear insinuations?"†   (source)
  • Her exasperation startled her into looking at him as a man again, rather than an infernal miracle.†   (source)
  • His eyes drop down to my legs, which are crisscrossed by the bloody tendrils that infernal shrub left in its wake, and then they return to my face, and I wonder what he sees there.†   (source)
  • I lured those fool cats right to me and into those infernal sacks.†   (source)
  • Existing without gimmickry, without the infernal swindles and capering of so much of contemporary cuisine, barbecue is truth; it is history and home, and the only thing I don't believe is that I'll ever get enough.†   (source)
  • Tell them what sort of infernal machine it is and for what purpose it's intended to be used!†   (source)
  • I was so bemused by it that I had to be reminded to take the platoon out of "freeze" — then I withdrew the ground listeners from the crater, pulled two men from each squad and gave them bearings from that infernal map to have them listen along the Bug highway and over the town.†   (source)
  • I knew that Orfeo would not be able to tolerate the sound of the keys clicking, and the leads striking what he called the infernal rubber roll.†   (source)
  • Come in out of the eternal bugs and the infernal heat.†   (source)
  • ' But why did these soldiers think that the "infernal rebellion" jeopardized the survival of the glorious republic?†   (source)
  • It was a sort of infernal circus, smelling of barbecue and kerosene.†   (source)
  • But who had written me the note, the note that had set the infernal machine to chugging?†   (source)
  • How could this infernal Nathan summon up the shade of Bobby Weed on such a ravishing day?†   (source)
  • Now we were within the precincts of the temple and I caught sight of Nathan and ran towards him, bidding the boy pick up the cart with its infernal drum: but no, he was bewitched, the cart must come dum-dumming behind him.†   (source)
  • At last, grimly, Hodge smiled, annoyed at that infernal sense of himself as a small boy forever ready to be guilty of forgotten crimes.†   (source)
  • For there were really two dreams, the first like a dim, blurred, infernal foreshadowing of the second.†   (source)
  • It sounded worse than the infernal regions.†   (source)
  • Even when that infernal adding machine in the District Attorney's office told him you were innocent, he wouldn't listen.†   (source)
  • Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.†   (source)
  • If only this infernal stomach sickness hadn't emerged, my project would already be complete!†   (source)
  • Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?†   (source)
  • He'd put me in this infernal hammock for a reason.†   (source)
  • What does he care about Miss Faith Cartwright and her endless and infernal needlework?†   (source)
  • Gather up those ...those infernal fuzzy little beasts and take them outside.†   (source)
  • What is wrong with this infernal machine?†   (source)
  • All those taut lines were moaning and wailing like an infernal stringed orchestra.†   (source)
  • "The Ritual of Infernal Conversion," Magnus said.†   (source)
  • That infernal lawyer kept twisting his words and homing in on details.†   (source)
  • The boat's single lantern wasn't much use against the infernal fog.†   (source)
  • If it is infernal assistance you require, why not summon your father?†   (source)
  • The Infernal Cup controls him completely.†   (source)
  • They helped him find the Mortal Instruments and assisted him with the Ritual of Infernal Conversion.†   (source)
  • Sebastian took a quick step toward her, raising the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • The Ritual of Infernal Conversion— Valentine laughed.†   (source)
  • I believe nothing that Callender said any more than if it had been said by an infernal spirit.†   (source)
  • We have to assume he's out there, with the Infernal Cup, planning his next move.†   (source)
  • You know there's no rescuing the Nephilim that Sebastian's taken with the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • I told my mother about the Infernal Conversion.†   (source)
  • All the Shadowhunters you see there will drink from the Infernal Cup soon enough.†   (source)
  • "Only the power of the Infernal Cup keeps them alive," said Jia, her voice throbbing with sorrow.†   (source)
  • He had seen the ritual of the Infernal Cup performed.†   (source)
  • That is the reach of the power of the Infernal Cup, and of he who holds it.†   (source)
  • "We of the Infernal Cup have in our possession five of your allies," was the reply.†   (source)
  • The warlocks and the Fair Folk joined with their infernal parents.†   (source)
  • As you know, we have been attempting to reverse the spell of the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • He can use the Infernal Cup to make Shadowhunters—not themselves anymore.†   (source)
  • "If the Infernal Cup itself could be destroyed ...," Diana mused.†   (source)
  • I wonder when this infernal rain's going to let up?†   (source)
  • A metronome was an infernal machine, Cassie's mother said when Cassie told on Virgie.†   (source)
  • He put her down, disgusted with himself, the infernal complexity of things.†   (source)
  • Mercy, you have to keep moving, with that infernal machine.†   (source)
  • I shall go back to her when I am done with this infernal century of punishment at your ridiculous camp.†   (source)
  • In the postcards that he sent from the way stations he would describe with shouts the instantaneous images that he had seen from the window of his coach, and it was as if he were tearing up and throwing into oblivion some long, evanescent poem: the chimerical Negroes in the cotton fields of Louisiana, the winged horses in the bluegrass of Kentucky, the Greek lovers in the infernal sunsets of Arizona, the girl in the red sweater painting watercolors by a lake in Michigan who waved at him with her brushes, not to say farewell but out of hope, because she did not know that she was watching a train with no return passing by.†   (source)
  • It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.†   (source)
  • Suffocating in his formal clothes under the infernal sun, Florentino Ariza indicated to Euclides that he should try to dive to a depth of twenty meters and bring back anything he might find at the bottom.†   (source)
  • His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air.†   (source)
  • He had captured you and kept you prisoner on his ship, meaning to use your blood to complete the Ritual of Infernal Conversion.†   (source)
  • Judging from his comments to his associates, his remarks about Chicago's infernal July weather, and his general aversion to racing in "the West," Riddle was almost certainly not considering the Arlington offer.†   (source)
  • "Now," said Sebastian in a voice like silk, "drink of the Infernal Cup," and he forced the rim of the cup between Katerina's teeth.†   (source)
  • Justifying to his wife a decision to stay in the army after more than a year's fighting instead of accepting a medical discharge, a thirty-three-year-old Minnesota sergeant, father of three children, wrote home from an army hospital where he was recovering from exhaustion: "My grandfather fought and risked his life to bequeath to his posterity ...the glorious Institutions" now threatened by "this infernal rebellion....It is not for you and I, or us & our dear little ones, alone, that I was and am willing to risk the fortunes of the battlefield, but also for the sake of the country's millions who are to come after us."†   (source)
  • He knew also that Boyle was not the cause of it or the essential to consider, that Boyle was only a chance rider, not the builder, of the infernal machine that had destroyed the world, that it was not Boyle who had made it possible, nor any of the men in this room.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had waited at the street door, burning under the infernal three o'clock sun, but in full control of the situation.†   (source)
  • 'Everyone knows that certain practices,' he said, 'and certain machines, infernal machines, have no place in residential areas.†   (source)
  • That infernal climate in India.†   (source)
  • When Adams had wondered, from the tone of her letters, if some"infernal" might be whispering insinuations in her ear, he was not far from the truth.†   (source)
  • He kept stating in the tone of a feudal sovereign, "I'm the boss here, from now on ....I give the orders ....I came to take over ....I own this place....I am Dr. Robert Stadler-and if you don't know that name in this place, you have no business being here, you infernal idiots!†   (source)
  • The night of Dr. Urbino's death, he was dressed just as he had been when he first heard the news, which was how he always dressed, even in the infernal heat of June: a dark suit with a vest, a silk bow tie and a celluloid collar, a felt hat, and a shiny black umbrella that he also used a walking stick.†   (source)
  • In that same instant, on the stroke of ten, by an infernal marvel of synchronization, every property of d'Anconia Copper on the face of the globe, from Chile to Siam to Spain to Pottsville, Montana, had been blown up and swept away.†   (source)
  • Sebastian held up the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man's deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense.†   (source)
  • The last of the Shadowhunters was in front of Sebastian, reaching eagerly for the Infernal Cup as he held it out.†   (source)
  • We've proved the Infernal Cup works.†   (source)
  • "As the Mortal Cup has been to the Shadowhunters, both a talisman and a means of transformation, so shall this Infernal Cup be to you," she said in her charred, windblown voice.†   (source)
  • The Wild Hunt; the antiques store in Prague; fountains full of blood; the tunnels of Sebastian's eyes; Jace's body against hers; Sebastian jamming the Infernal Cup against her lips, trying to pry them apart; the bitter stench of demon ichor.†   (source)
  • She thought of the last time she had seen Luke's sister, Sebastian forcing Amatis to drink from the Infernal Cup as she screamed in protest.†   (source)
  • Descriptions of the Dark Shadowhunters, the Infernal Cup, the weapons they used, the runes that were on them.†   (source)
  • But we do not have the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • They're paying the Spiral Labyrinth a fortune to try to unravel the spell Sebastian used to create the Infernal Cup and enact the ritual.†   (source)
  • They have helped you attack the Institutes; they have swelled your ranks while you have recruited new Shadowhunters with the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • "I heard Mom say that the warlocks of the Spiral Labyrinth have been looking for a way to reverse the effects of the Infernal Cup," said Isabelle.†   (source)
  • They will join with us, and you will find yourselves fighting not just he who holds the Infernal Cup, but all of Downworld.†   (source)
  • You know what the Infernal Cup can do.†   (source)
  • Whether I ought to be forgiven the way Luke would forgive his sister if the Infernal Cup released her now.†   (source)
  • He bent down and, with his bare hand, picked up something lumpy, glistening with ichor—he held it up, and Clary recognized the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • We speak of the Endarkened, the ones Jonathan Morgenstern—or as he prefers to be known, Sebastian—Turned from their purpose as Nephilim using the Infernal Cup.†   (source)
  • Those of you who choose it can be changed by the Infernal Cup; you will become soldiers of the Morning Star, and you will rule the world with Jonathan Morgenstern as your leader.†   (source)
  • You'll use the Infernal Cup on me.†   (source)
  • He had seen his father forced to drink from the Infernal Cup, Emma realized, but he hadn't seen him after, hadn't seen him raise a blade to his own son, or laugh about the idea of his son's death, or force Katerina to her knees to be tortured and Turned.... "Jules," she said.†   (source)
  • "They have the warlocks of the Spiral Labyrinth working on a cure for the effects of the Infernal Cup, but even they don't know how urgent the situation is, or what's been happening in Idris," Catarina said.†   (source)
  • "There is that for which there can be no reparation—the loss of life sustained by Shadowhunters and lycanthropes in battle, those who were torn from us by the Infernal Cup—" "That was Sebastian Morgenstern, not the Courts," Kaelie protested.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps he knows Sebastian's next move, or even a manner of curing his condition—" Amalric Kriegsmesser is barely conscious, and besides, he is a servant of the Infernal Cup, said Brother Zachariah.†   (source)
  • She was aware that face's hand was around hers, but she was hearing the wind on the Burren, and seeing Shadowhunters rising from the Infernal Cup to face Sebastian, the Marks of the Gray Book already fading from their skin.... "Shadowhunters don't fight Shadowhunters," said an older man in one of the front rows.†   (source)
  • Thus the drama seemed to be enacted in a charitable vacuum, from which were excluded the wails of grief, cries of terror and other noises of that infernal initiation.†   (source)
  • And that infernal machine was right?†   (source)
  • That river, his infernal need, rose, flooded, sweeping him forward as though he were a long-drowned corpse.†   (source)
  • Thus the jaded reader surfeited with our century's perdurable feast of atrocities will be spared here a detailed chronicle of the killings, gassings, beatings, tortures, criminal medical experiments, slow deprivations, excremental outrages, screaming madnesses and other entries into the historical account which have already been made by Tadeusz Borowski, Jean-Francois Steiner, Olga Lengyel, Eugen Kogon, Andre Schwarz-Bart, Elie Wiesel and Bruno Bettelheim, to name but a few of the most eloquent who have tried to limn the totally infernal in their heart's blood.†   (source)
  • The music that filled any town or city he entered was not the music of the saints but another music, infernal, which glorified lust and held righteousness up to scorn.†   (source)
  • Almost every thought she had concerned the child, and the few grains of information she collected about him from time to time—that he was healthy enough, that he still lived—brought her the kind of mild, numb solace which enabled her to get through the infernal existence she woke to every morning.†   (source)
  • The real use of the infernal Venus is, no doubt, as prostitute or mistress.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the infernal truth was, he made things worse for her.†   (source)
  • What infernal impudence made you presume that I'd want you?†   (source)
  • — out of this infernal...[She turns suddenly as Dan Hatcher knocks at the corridor door.†   (source)
  • We can do very little for him out here—there's no shelter from this infernal wind.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, damn that infernal cupid,' said Maxim wearily.†   (source)
  • The infernal gall of offering you that kind of work!†   (source)
  • Well, in the first place, that infernal pest Kiki Holcombe demands it.†   (source)
  • 'Beatrice can sometimes be infernally unintelligent,' he said.†   (source)
  • Their entertaining myths transport the mind and spirit, not up to, but past them, into the yonder void; from which perspective the more heavily freightedtheological dogmas then appear to have been only pedagogical lures: their function, to cart the unadroit intellect away from its concrete clutter of facts and events to a comparatively rarefied zone, where, as a final boon, all existence—whether heavenly, earthly, or infernal—may at last be seen transmuted into the semblance of a lightly passing, recurrent, mere childhood dream of bliss and fright.†   (source)
  • And this nigromancer, would you believe it, by means of his infernal arts, succeeded in putting the treacherous Uther Pendragon inside our Granny's Castle.†   (source)
  • 'I say, I'm getting infernally hungry.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, must not this infernal monster have burned her body to destroy evidence of offenses worse than rape?†   (source)
  • dark forces and powers which weak human flesh cannot stand, to wake pregnant, shrieking and screaming and thrashing, not against the ruthless agony of labor but in protest against the outrage of her swelling loins; that he had been fathered on her not through that natural process but had been blotted onto and out of her body by the old infernal immortal male principle of all unbridled terror and darkness) in which he stood looking at the innocent face of the youth almost ten years his junior, while one part of him said My brow my skull my jaw my hands and the other said Wait.†   (source)
  • Daylight was dawning through the window panes, the leaden, infernal daylight of a rainy winter's day, when at last I got to bed.†   (source)
  • I gather, not from your miserably inadequate report but from that of the Infernal Police, that the patient's behaviour during the first raid has been the worst possible.†   (source)
  • You will find, if you look carefully into any human's heart, that he is haunted by at least two imaginary women—a terrestrial and an infernal Venus, and that his desire differs qualitatively according to its object.†   (source)
  • That infernal girl must have given the signal for some catastrophe.†   (source)
  • The doctors tell me that's what has knocked my digestion out—being so infernally jealous of her.†   (source)
  • As infernal a job as even you, Lassiter, ever heerd of.†   (source)
  • It is this infernal St. Simon marriage case.†   (source)
  • He looked as genuine as a new sovereign, but there was some infernal alloy in his metal.†   (source)
  • Why make him suffer, when she had tortured him so infernally?†   (source)
  • You'll find this island an infernally rum place, I promise you.†   (source)
  • I'll never care any more about the infernal cursed place, upon my soul I won't!†   (source)
  • Here is a crying sin—an infernal paradox.†   (source)
  • Why, I ain't sich an infernal lubber after all.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Joan's ears burst to an infernal crash of guns.†   (source)
  • The brigade was hurrying briskly to be gulped into the infernal mouths of the war god.†   (source)
  • Kept on sniffing all the time; evidently recently caught an infernal cold.†   (source)
  • This was an infernal invention...Oh, I knew well enough how Erik obtained it!†   (source)
  • It was that infernal stuff which led to my coming here,—that, and a foggy night.†   (source)
  • Yeh infernal fool, don't yeh know enough t' quit when there ain't anything t' shoot at?†   (source)
  • Either bring your infernal crowd along or let us go out and starve in the open sea, by God!†   (source)
  • He saw that, with her infernal school physician, Leora was sliding on a distant slope.†   (source)
  • Never, never had he suffered so infernally!†   (source)
  • Of course I was in a fix—an infernal fix.†   (source)
  • CUSINS [revolted] You really are an infernal old rascal.†   (source)
  • 'Won't you save your own life—you infernal coward?' he sobs.†   (source)
  • I wish I'd never set eyes on your infernal island.†   (source)
  • All those mirrors are sending out an infernal heat!†   (source)
  • Got him the infernal pots back of course—and pacified all hands.†   (source)
  • The infernal people here let loose at him from both banks without staying to ask questions.†   (source)
  • Infernally fawning and familiar—and that sort of thing ...†   (source)
  • There were no longer men in this conflict, which was now infernal.†   (source)
  • I've had an infernal deal of bother lately about the mill.†   (source)
  • I want you to be aware that I KNOW you have treated me infernally — infernally!†   (source)
  • You infernal scoundrel, how dare you tell ME that?†   (source)
  • Like Prester John's, his table had been spread, and infernal harpies had snatched up the food.†   (source)
  • But it would have been an infernal revenge.†   (source)
  • I like your confidence—it speaks well for the fellow; but that infernal letter!†   (source)
  • I have been under a Taboo in that infernal scoundrel's service.†   (source)
  • Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler.†   (source)
  • These infernal sky parlours—I'm afraid I must move, Nickleby.'†   (source)
  • — The Miraculous Well Uncorked amid awful outbursts of INFERNAL FIRE AND SMOKE ATHUNDER!†   (source)
  • He sacrifices not to Ceres and the Terrestrial Jove, but to the infernal Plutus rather.†   (source)
  • Because that which she does is part of a plan concerted between you—of an infernal plan.†   (source)
  • And all that infernal weak tea wash that he pours into himself!†   (source)
  • He smiled; the infernal invention would serve him for this purpose.†   (source)
  • "How dare you preach to me about your infernal Bible!" he exclaimed.†   (source)
  • 'What an infernal hole this is!' said Monsieur Rigaud, breaking a long pause.†   (source)
  • 'Twas a priest, a priest whom I do not know; an infernal priest who pursues me!†   (source)
  • And $500.00 to the man who can pierce that infernal beast!†   (source)
  • "What an infernal face!" he exclaimed, and spat with disgust.†   (source)
  • It is an infernal nuisance that we don't possess some capital to trade on.†   (source)
  • Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?†   (source)
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