evil one
Example Sentences
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He asked that “the Lord may give them strength and wisdom to repulse the attacks of the evil one while serving their people in faith and truth promoting peace by all possible ways.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
And get this, he's not the evil one on the show.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2021
Is the final fight scene a metaphor, telling us that the real enemy is always within, and that, to vanquish evil, one must first vanquish oneself?
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 17, 2019
They are said to have been fundamentalists who believed there were two gods: A good one who presided over the spiritual world, and an evil one who ruled the physical world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
On my affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
