1 The picture seems to have a malign influence, for my mother rarely comes here without looking at it, and still more rarely does she look at it without weeping.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 2 Duncan, in turning his eyes from the malign expression of Magua, suffered them to rest with pleasure on the smiling and polished features, and the noble military air, of the French general.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 3 There is no malign there, see, and so it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep.
4 Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign expression and went out again without saying a word.
5 Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war.
6 He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
7 In spite of my malignity, it softened and attracted me.
8 He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.
9 No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine.
10 Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 11 His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
12 Rosa Dartle sprang up from her seat; recoiled; and in recoiling struck at her, with a face of such malignity, so darkened and disfigured by passion, that I had almost thrown myself between them.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 13 A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 14 How Aeneas thy brother is driven about all the sea-coasts by bitter Juno's malignity, this thou knowest, and hast often grieved in our grief.
15 Their offences at first were those of laziness, carelessness, and impulse, rather than of malignity or ungoverned viciousness.