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A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and malignities.

From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War by Raemaekers, Louis

The cabal which gathered head against Bajazet could only whisper its malignities when Mithridate appeared.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

Whatever may have been the malignities laid to the charge of the later middle ages, it is certain that the Englishman was on the whole of a reverential type.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

And then it was that once more the Old Man brought back the House to the temper from which it had been carried by the malignities of Mr. Chamberlain.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.