Word: incubus
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...strong enough to exist of itself, and when no one denied that a tariff was a tax. He considered briefly the causes which led to the revenue tariff of 1847, and described the wonderful prosperity which the country enjoyed in the decade which followed. He declared that notwithstanding the incubus of the industrial condition of the south the country has never had greater material properity than during the year between...
...incubus on the useful arts-Bulletin of Wool Manufacturers, Vol. XIII...
...scholars. It is such a grammar that has weighed down our poor, be-parsed English speaking people, so that when their freedom was proclaimed a few years ago, and a man in whom some of them put some trust dared to tell them that they might fling off their incubus in the name of great common sense, from every country where English is spoken there came back to him cries of relief and utterances of hearty thanks, which have not yet died away.- Richard Grant White...
...incubus filling my soul full of woes...
Desiring to correlate the large circulation of the Nation with the quality of the Harvard student, it was found necessary by our author to discover in that paper some occult and fruitful principle of evil. What then is this incubus that has fastened itself upon our devoted College? What is the Merlin-charm that has drained our life...