Sheitan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Under the circumstances I think it best to strike off toward the road, leaving them to draw their own conclusions as to whether I am Sheitan himself, or merely a plain, inoffensive hobgoblin.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas
"How is this, thou son of Sheitan?" exclaimed the General, affecting sternness to hide his pleasure.
From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon
My darling, ambition is the mirage of the literary desert you are anxious to traverse; it is the Bahr Sheitan, the Satan's water, which will ever recede and mock your thirsty, toil-spent soul.
From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
"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 Hill, Headon
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 Diver, Maud
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