What is "vampirish"

Usage examples of "vampirish".

Phil wondered dazedly if he might have broken the cord, without realizing the fact, in an access of that new vampirish strength Connie had so vividly described and demonstrated with her own body.

It is hardly an accident that the vampirish Chillingworth is a doctor, that he is professionally licensed to subject others to his analytic scrutiny.

Gummitch found increasing horror in this mute vampirish being inhabiting the body of a rapidly growing girl, though inwardly equipped to be nothing but a most bloodthirsty she-cat.

Strength returned to her limbs, driving away the dull lassitude that had held her so long in its vampirish embrace.

With vampirish greed, the pale disk had absorbed the destroying beam of energy, sucked in the stream of power with a lusting hunger for more.

His arrogant smile greeted her, but it seemed to her the insolent strength of his massive frame had weathered gaunt, haggard, eroded by some nameless and vampirish force.

Two long, vampirish fangs protruded from the lower jaw of the man-sized cadaver.

A man may force his actual wife to share the direst poverty, but even the least vampirish woman of the third part demands to be courted in what, considering his station in life, is the grand manner, and the expenses of that grand manner scare off all save a small minority of specialists in deception.

Later I discovered that the professor had been prudently knocking loose the hinges of those great entrance doors, not wishing to be trapped inside by any misfortune, or vampirish plan.

The ways in which they had tried to murder me-their carelessness in letting me get free after such efforts-their puzzlement at my vampirish blood-all these were proof enough of that.

Tanizaki indulges in a vein of almost surrealist fantasy: Okada, drained of health by a vampirish young mistress, is a prey to terrifying hallucinations.

There was no help there, nor in all the dead, vampirish world around her.

Because I was obviously not a policewoman or a pusher of some vampirish sort, a surprising number of people talked to me.