incubus
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Either side of this 10-foot incubus Bryan Robson and Peter Shilton pose supportively, like game but frightened parents.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020
But, as Pope Francis has said, there is a moral incubus on mankind to make a reality of Article 6 of the agreement pledging the abolition of nuclear weapons altogether.
From US News ● Aug. 10, 2015
At some midpoint in this incubus, it seemed that nothing would ever seem stupid, or at least surprisingly stupid, ever again.
From Slate
We may not be statesmen, but we have not a chance to be as good statesmen as we might be because of the incubus of work.
From Time Magazine Archive
An idea shot through her mind that she might call a policeman to rid her of this incubus.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
All so they can keep expanding, squatting over lives like feudal incubi.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2018
They form and re-form bureaucratic incubi that mock Us with Our own impotence and trip Us up with rules only They understand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2011
This situation crops up in folk literature, with tales of changelings or of sleeping women seduced and impregnated by incubi, and occasionally appears in popular entertainments like The Bad Seed and Rosemary's Baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dusii of Gaul are mentioned by St Augustine, who regarded them as incubi, and by Isidore of Seville, and in the name we may perhaps discover the origin of our expression ‘the deuce!’
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
Hobgoblins seemed to steal through the hall, and leering incubi oppressed his soul with terrible burdens.
From The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck
For, as Apuleius informs us in his book concerning the Demon of Socrates, between the moon and the earth inhabit those spirits, which we will call incubuses.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
One of my friends made me laugh the other day, when, speaking of the pretended incubuses, he said that those who believed in them were not wise to marry.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
Vocabulary lists containing incubus
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale
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