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Halleluiah! That the spiritual downfall of Babylon is a real plague to sectarians there can be no doubt, and it is plainly declared to be such in chap. 18:8, where the same event is described. There is no analagous object to which a spirit can be made a symbol; therefore we must regard them as being literally spirits of devils, here appearing under their own appropriate title.
Suddenly he bursts into loud laughter: "Oh, devils, devils! Do you think that I have two ears in order that you may lie in each one? Go down on your knees, rascal!" He hurls Khorre to the ground. "String him up with a rope! I would have crushed your venomous head myself but let them do it. Oh, devils, devils! String him up with a rope." Khorre whines harshly: "Me, Captain! I was your nurse, Noni."
"What have you done to my son?" breathed Maya the Queen, dry in the throat and all but speechless with passion. For indeed his face, for a child, was ghastly. "Look at his knife! What would he do to my son?" Dwaymenau was stiff with hate and spoke as to a slave. "He has killed my deer and mocks me because I loved him, He is the devil in this place. Look at the devils in his eyes.
The twin devils of jealousy and distrust were riding him hard, and it flashed over Hazel that in his mind she was prejudged, and that her explanation, if she made it, would only add fuel to the flame. Moreover, she stood in open rebellion at being, so to speak, put on the rack. She turned abruptly and left him. What did it matter, anyway?
Several of the Chinese fought stoutly, but the greater part lost heart at seeing themselves attacked by the "white devils," instead of, as they expected, overwhelming them by their superior numbers. Many began at once to jump overboard, and after two or three minutes' sharp fighting the rest either followed their example or were beaten below. Fothergill looked round.
War had taught him how to throw off the sweet lethargy that had been stealing over him, and to start once again on that weary road where he had been grappling in imagination with the brain-created fiends who had persecuted him so long, but who in reality were gentle spirits compared with the human devils by whom he and his kindred were surrounded.
"Aye," cried Roger, pushing forward, "there's nought like the fire for your devils or demons!" Quoth the archer: "In nomen Dominum Holy Saint Giles, 'tis a comely maid!" "Foul daughter of an accursed dam!" quoth Roger, spitting and drawing a cross in the dust with his bow-stave.
From "Jephson" I hold a letter, dated from a station deep in the heart of the Queensland bush. "Do what you like with it, dear boy," the letter runs, "so long as you keep me out of it. Thanks for your complimentary regrets, but I cannot share them. I was never fitted for a literary career. Lucky for me, I found it out in time. Some poor devils don't. We read all your stuff, and like it very much.
See how chilly and miserable all these poor devils of passengers look. Shall we cab it or walk?" "I think a sharp walk would rouse our circulation after sitting huddled up in the carriage for so long," I answered. "So do I," said Thorndyke, "so let us away; hark forward! and also Tally Ho! In fact one might go so far as to say Yoicks!
The fashion grew, much to the displeasure of the conquered, who deemed them "homes of wrong and badges of bondage," hateful places filled with devils and evil men who robbed and spoiled them. And when they were ordered to set to work on castle-building their impotent wrath knew no bounds. It is difficult to ascertain how many were constructed during the Conqueror's reign.
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