Word: flendish
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...running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...
...very uniquely designed phonograph connected to each other several times over by wires which dive and coil menacingly and generally rule most of that part of the room which lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle of it all and force him to submit to the latest product of his off-hour madness in the way of an identification quiz...
...want to be quoted as doing nothing but smile," declared Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor in Geographical Exploration, when questioned about Guglielmo Marconi's flendish invention. Swathed in rumor, this 'micro-wave' machine is supposed to stall the ignition system of airplanes...
Although professing to be a scientific organization members of this department will proudly profess that they own a magic mirror. Producing this flendish article the Fogg conjurer will let you examine it until you are satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected...
...library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...