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"Maleficent" Quotes from Famous Books

... said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon ...

— Dubliners • James Joyce

... said that peoples which are the most nearly naked are, in our sense, the most nearly moral. Because the brutality of the civilized slave owners and dealers created a conquering sentiment against slavery it is not intelligent to assume that slavery is a maleficent thing amongst Oriental peoples (for example) where the slave ...

— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce

... take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of humanity. It may present itself as law and pacification, as a positive addition and superstructure to the Normal Social Life, as roads and markets and cities, as courts and unifying monarchies, as helpful and directing religious organisations, as ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellarage of hell, The Wind-Fiend, the abominable— The hangman wind that tortures temper and light— Comes slouching, sullen and obscene, Hard on the skirts of the embittered night: And in a cloud ...

— The Song of the Sword - and Other Verses • W. E. Henley

... not only believe in a life after death; they are even of opinion that they would never die at all if it were not for the maleficent arts of sorcerers who cut the vital thread prematurely short. In other words, they disbelieve in what we call a natural death; they think that all men are naturally immortal in this life, and that every death which takes place is in fact a violent death inflicted ...

— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer