Example Sentences

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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

It is called alpzopf and schraitelzopf, as being the result of the malefices of vampires and incubi.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Nor, of course, are these incubi, these ghostly emanations of the One God Trade, confined to the American continent.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)