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Meanings of very fiend in English

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Usage of very fiend in English
1
They hampered Mammon, the very fiend who is devouring the masses.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
2
That 'Pincher,' in some respects, was a very fiend incarnate.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier / Twelve Years Sporting Re...
3
Even we, the enlightened race, shrink from him as if he were the very fiend incarnate.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
4
You must be the very fiend, I think.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
5
The source of sin, the very fiend's fee:
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13,...
6
First we must locate our friend Carne Yvard, the very fiend of a fellow, who stops at nothing.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
7
He's the very fiend of duplicity.
Ruthless
8
Oh, he was a very fiend!
The Boy Nihilist / or, Young America in Russia
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And as thy true confession may be the means of bringing a very fiend to justice, so may thy share in his deeds be pardoned.
The Vale of Cedars; Or, The Martyr
10
He seemed to her a different being in the same form-onesuddenly transformed from all that was manly and noble to a very fiend incarnate.
Mischievous Maid Faynie
11
He rode off alone like the very fiends of the Abyss were after his spirit.
Blood and Bone
12
Had we done so I am persuaded that the very fiends would have howled with derisive laughter.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
13
He is treacherous, truculent- averyfiend.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
14
The door opened, and there stood the mother of Leclerc, ready to face any danger, the very Fiend himself.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
15
"That man must be the very fiend," Garnache heard her tell her son.
St. Martin's Summer
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"By the very fiend, disguised in the gross flesh and semblance of a Dominican brother."
Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
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