afreet

How to use afreet in a sentence

• And the Moor's face was white, and his features trembled, as though he had seen an afreet, but my face was as a deep well.

  The Arab's Pledge | Edward L. Mitford

• Af'rit or afreet, a kind of Medusa or Lamia, the most terrible and cruel of all the orders of the deevs.

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

• Look upon him as an afreet to be exorcised with a cross of red-hot iron.

  William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) | Elizabeth A. Sharp

• It seemed as if it might be a pillar of confinement and punishment for some afreet who had defied Heaven.

  Overland | John William De Forest