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Infernal in sentence

61 examples of Infernal in a sentence

Now you know that's infernal clever!
It is this infernal St. Simon marriage case.
The infernal thing seemed to be a myth, a word, a proverb anything rather than the finest necklace in the world.
It was the black diamond black as the pitch of the infernal lake, and lighted from below with the fires of hell.
And I thought it was their infernal clumsiness!
Glory be, it's the last journey that you'll ever undertake in this infernal land.
"Because that which she does is part of a plan concerted between you--of an infernal plan."
"Can you guess," said d’Artagnan, "who was the man who headed this infernal expedition?""I don’t know him."
I have an infernal spirit.
The soul of Milady was bathed in an infernal joy.
He was yielding to your infernal influence; but I will save him.
"This is not the way that I wished to avenge myself," said Milady, replacing the glass upon the table, with an infernal smile, "but, my faith!
"No, no! it is an infernal apparition!
On the other side, the crimes, the power, and the infernal genius of Milady had more than once terrified him.
Our fluid aliment was now nothing but gin; but this infernal fluid burned my throat, and I could not even endure the sight of it.
These infernal people seem to think that there are no rights of property, and that they can swarm where they like with their papers and their bottles.
"Driving back in the evening from Coombe Tracey he was in time to get his hound, to treat it with his infernal paint, and to bring the beast round to the gate at which he had reason to expect that he would find the old gentleman waiting.
It was only yesterday that we had an infernal Dutchman here howling about some arrears of interest and the deuce knows what.
It's the infernal plan of turning a crew over from ship to ship and leaving the officers behind that rots the Navy.
"This infernal problem is consuming me.
But to give their conversation in the original would convey but little information to the modern reader, for whose benefit we beg to offer the following translation:"The curse of St Withold upon these infernal porkers!" said the swine-herd, after blowing his horn obstreperously, to collect together the scattered herd of swine, which, answering his call with notes equally melodious, made, however, no haste to remove themselves from the luxurious banquet of beech-mast and acorns on which they had fattened, or to forsake the marshy banks of the rivulet, where several of them, half plunged in mud, lay stretched at their ease, altogether regardless of the voice of their keeper.
Would I were out of the shade of these infernal bushes, that I might at least see any of St Nicholas's clerks before they spring on my shoulders."
"Send to thy neighbours," said the Templar, "let them assemble their people, and come to the rescue of three knights, besieged by a jester and a swineherd in the baronial castle of Reginald Front-de-Boeuf!""You jest, Sir Knight," answered the baron; "but to whom should I send?--Malvoisin is by this time at York with his retainers, and so are my other allies; and so should I have been, but for this infernal enterprise."
"Were it not well, brethren," said the Grand Master, "that we examine something into the former life and conversation of this woman, specially that we may discover whether she be one likely to use magical charms and spells, since the truths which we have heard may well incline us to suppose, that in this unhappy course our erring brother has been acted upon by some infernal enticement and delusion?"
Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon."
But she had hardly pushed the door ajar, when some one sprang from the darkness, extinguished the candle with a blow of his cap, and with the same blow knocked over the good woman, then took to his heels while the terrified cocks and hens set up an infernal row.
I forget she knows nothing of the character of that woman, or of the circumstances attending my infernal union with her.
'Twas a priest, a priest whom I do not know; an infernal priest who pursues me!""That is it," retorted the judge; "the surly monk."
He will summon the vengeance of all the infernal gods against me.
"Did Lygia really draw a fish for thee?""By all the infernal gods, one might go mad!" cried the young man, with excitement.
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