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Definition of Fiends
1. fiend [n] - See also: fiend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiends
Literary usage of Fiends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Manger to Throne: Embracing a New Life of Jesus the Christ and a by Thomas De Witt Talmage (1893)
"The hosts of heaven were singing hallelujahs while burnishing their corselets,
and fiends of darkness were marshaling their forces for a combat with the ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"But enumerating the five fiends who together possess him, ... found the strange
names that the Jesuits bestow on their pretended fiends. ..."
3. "With the Help of God and a Few Marines," by Albertus Wright Catlin, Walter Alden Dyer (1919)
"CHAPTER XI "THEY FOUGHT LIKE fiends" ONE prisoner that we took at Belleau ...
Well, they weren't drunk, but they did fight like fiends, and so many of them ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Oue of Shakespeare's fiends, taken from the history of the Jesuits' impostures.
See FLIBBERTIGIBBET. ..."
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