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

Hobgoblins seemed to steal through the hall, and leering incubi oppressed his soul with terrible burdens.

From The House of the Vampire by Viereck, George Sylvester

Oh! the many many hours, that I have groaned under the terrible incubi which the fits of real delirium evoke.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)