One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief

Usage examples of demon.

She enumerated a new list of extraordinary occurrences that had been cited in the acta and could be explained only as the consequences of shameless complicity between the girl and the demon.

I watched, the Demon Mark was growing larger, sucking in energy and power from the aetheric flow, like a tick hitting an artery.

Demon Mark hesitated, torn between the fast-unraveling aetheric updraft and the less powerful but more certain warmth of my body.

She spoke in this way because the inhabitants of Alca, having no news of Kraken since he went to live on the Beach of Shadows, believed that he had died and descended among the demons of night.

She looked at her hands and watched a line of blood creep out from beneath her nails while her skull pounded like all the demon drums of Algol at one time.

Persei is directly above and to the right of Alpha Perseus, and both Alpha and Gamma are almost directly above Beta Perseus - better known as Algol or the Demon Star because of its constantly changing brightness.

Perhaps this was a test of bravery Aman was demanding of me, to face these water demons?

It seems our demon has acquired a variance from Ananke herself, giving him express permission to perform miracles in the furtherance of his plan.

But then Ananke decided to spare it, so the time track of the city that had continued his actions with the demon was cut away and sent to Limbo.

These individuals, human and demon alike, have traveled from Los Angeles to offer their assistance to us in what may well be our darkest hour, though we do not know it yet.

And taking this step appears to take one down a slippery slope to an antiscientific belief in spirits, demons, and fairies.

Behind him he had expected to see a horde of demons disguised as apes and panthers.

Where in demon splendor Apollyon had stood, now was a blond man in golden armor.

As they galloped past Apollyon, the links of the silver net rippled over the demon, curled him in pain, and robbed him of his strength.

Cornwell and Whyte rationalize the appearances of magic in their stories, and provide mundane sources for the stories that have become our Arthurian legends, Attanasio places his retelling in a context rife with actual sorcery, living gods, angels, demons, elves, dwarves, and an intricate mytho-cosmology that encompasses the history of creation.