Sheitan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But the formula carried no conviction to his heart, that whispered rather: "It is the work of Sheitan, the accursed."
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
"How is this, thou son of Sheitan?" exclaimed the General, affecting sternness to hide his pleasure.
From The Duke Decides by Headon Hill
He ran down to the river like a man possessed of the Sheitan himself.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Joseph Conrad
"The daughter of Sheitan came from the fifth window, and has gone away, even as the sahib predicted, in the cart with two men," Azimoolah reported.
From The Duke Decides by Headon Hill
That idea was first imbibed in the Babylonish captivity, and apparently therefore must have been adopted from the Persian Ahriman, or from the "Melek Taous," the "Sheitan" still honoured by the Yezidi with mysterious fear.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
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