Word: fiending
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...started for the door, but it was of no use. The fiend was in the way. "What was it the racquet?" Wellnigh stupefied, still I chanced to remember an old legend I had once heard. Perhaps the Lamia had reappeared in the form of Lampy. I caught on to the idea, and played the philosopher. I stared. Slowly but surely Lampy drooped. His legs elongated, his arms became wings, his nose became a beak. It was - it was the Ibis. Still he could talk. "Who did lemonade?" he squeaked. I took the only rope I had - my tennis...
...mind was shattered. From an ordinary amateur villain, he became a professional. He became an habitual performer on the cornet. He spent whole months in pursuing the nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very depths of crime...
...Reserved Book Fiend is abroad. A book on Comparative Anatomy suddenly disappeared, and after two weeks just as suddenly returned to the shelves. Several reserved books in History 9 have also gone on a vacation. The popular theory that spiritualistic mediums are at work here is repudiated by the Library authorities. But whether the thief is a spirit or not, the College authorities, if they detect him, will treat him very materially...
...antechamber, in vulgar parlance called the Globe Theatre; that you are an adept in gambling; that your room is adorned with the painted Jezebels of the stage. Nephew Nathaniel, the jaws of hell are opening wide to receive you; already its sulphurous breath has tainted you, and the arch-fiend is about to claim you for his own. Conduct me to your room, that I may see with my own eyes whether this report of the youth who promised to lead so well in Friday night prayer-meetings is true...
NEPHEW NATHANIEL, - You have strayed far from the narrow path, but, my poor boy, you have been sorely tempted. I myself felt Satan's influence last evening, and it was only after wrestling with the arch-fiend in prayer during the midnight watches last night that I decided to leave by the early train this morning for Smithfield Centre. I pardon your sins, my poor boy, and hope that when your vacation begins you will come to us at Smithfield Centre, that the good influence of Priscilla and myself may counteract the workings of the Devil...