were exorcising
- past progressive of exorcise.
Example Sentences
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They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
I tell her she would have made a magnificent lady prioress, whereat she thumbs her beads and whispers a Latin distich, as if she were exorcising a demon.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
Their twirling feet seemed to be writing mystic characters in the soil, and all the while they brandished their arms and howled forth metrical curses as if they were exorcising some evil spirit.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r
The miners, who hold the superstition, that to whisper bodes ill-luck, must have imagined we were exorcising evil spirits with an incantation.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various
The questions and answers were taken down, by order of the judges, by reporters, who, while the priests were exorcising, committed the results to writing, published afterwards by one of them, Michaelis, in 1613.
From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Williams, Howard
