sinister

same particular things The impression is unavoidable that he enjoyed

writing these scenes, and was excruciated. His sinister art ran exactly

with his life.

This combination of the domestic with the terrible is unbelievably

sinister and grotesque. But it is also pathetic, when we hear it in

connection with his fierce suffering and hopeless longing

As king by office, and as priest by trade:

In his sinister hand, instead of ball,

He plac'd a mighty mug of potent ale;

To sweep off woeful things with prime,

Things sinister with things sublime

Alike dissolving.

Some could, some could not, shake off misery:

The Sinister Spirit sneered: “It had to be!”

And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, “Why?”

VII

Prepared a sinister mate

For her—so gaily great—

He was hanged at the now demolished Ivel-chester or Ilchester jail above

mentioned—that building formerly of so many sinister associations in the

minds of the local peasantry, and the continual haunt of fever, which at

and as rapidly as possible toward the end. #

While the witch-men laughed, with a sinister air,

And sang with the scalawags prancing there:--