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Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFERNAL
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infernal
 a.  pertaining to hell; devilish; abominable; awful
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Condemned in life's infernal mine, condemned in solitude to pine.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
2  So we answer to the infernal, agelong and eternal order issued from on high.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  A young woman stumbled over a bit last night, and fell against my garden-railings; directly she got up I saw her look towards his infernal red lamp with the pantomime-light.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Mr. Chitling added, with strong marks of irritation, that the new way of fumigating clothes up yonder was infernal unconstitutional, for it burnt holes in them, and there was no remedy against the County.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  'Not that infernal hole we were in before,' she could hear the man say as they went upstairs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  It is this infernal St. Simon marriage case.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
7  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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
8  There, Watson, this infernal case has haunted me for ten days.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
9  Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
10  Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
11  The place, seen by its dim and uncertain light, appeared like the shades of the infernal regions, across which unhappy ghosts and savage demons were flitting in multitudes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  She now stood fair for his infernal purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  The brigade was hurrying briskly to be gulped into the infernal mouths of the war god.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  Batman was baffled: he could think of no way to hinder the Joker's infernal scheme to destroy the city.