devils

-- The word rendered "devils," is always used for those spiritual agents employed in demoniacal possessions -- never for the ordinary agency of Satan in rational men.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

For he had ever a gentler way, and he had been known to drive forth two devils from a man who afterward begat seven healthy children.

THE MASTER OF MYSTERY 2010

Plus dealing with angels and devils is strangely fun.

weekly nathreee 2009

Wesson meant for his plan to be triggered if police or employees with Child Protective Services — people he called devils — attempted to break up his family, she has argued.

Wesson’s speedy trial a rarity 2004

When he rebelled against God and fell from power, many lesser angels went with him who are called devils.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

When he rebelled against God and fell from power, many lesser angels went with him who are called devils.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

And to this conjecture I will venture to subjoin another, which hath also its probability, viz. that it is not improbable but the familiars of witches are a vile kind of spirits of a very inferior constitution and nature; and none of those that were once of the highest hierarchy now degenerated into the spirits we call devils ....

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

He has driven out the devils from the body of Nina Masia!

The Mother 1928

"I had rather call the devils my brothers," he said in his heart, "I would fare better in hell."

The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

He was not thinking of the girl beside him; only something seemed to swell and grow and swell within his heart; it was all the torture of his days, weary hopes and weary disappointment, scorn rankling and throbbing, and the thought "I had rather call the devils my brothers and live with them in hell."

The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905