Sentence examples for instrument of the devil from inspiring English sources

"She believed that it was an instrument of the devil".

They are forbidden to dance and to play musical instruments and they regard the telephone as the instrument of the devil.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, professor Claxton said: "The eraser is an instrument of the devil because it perpetuates a culture of shame about error.

The song's original mix, by the disco producer Walter Gibbons, lacked Strafe's low-end contribution because, according to Strafe, the born-again Gibbons felt "that bass was an instrument of the Devil".

The train in "The Twelve-Forty-Five" is an instrument of the Devil ("I ride, I blasphemously ride / Through all the silent countryside"), disturbing the peaceful faith of the Garden State ("Why, even strident Paterson / Rests quietly as any nun").

Later that same century, people thought the telephone was the instrument of the devil.

THE SKILL PLAYERS -- When I was a dreadful fullback at Jamaica High a thousand years ago, I thought scorers were instruments of the devil for the way they dribbled around me.

In the course of her employment, Miss Mary observes - without responding in any interesting way -the manners of a society in which women are regarded either as the property of men or as the instruments of the devil.

Growing up in a house where secular music and cable television were forbidden as instruments of the devil, the Jones boys could not have sleepovers, go to parties or even leave the house after sunset.

In 1753 they built the first theatre in New York City, where they met opposition by many of the local residents who thought actors and plays were "instruments of the devil". The company later toured the colonies and also performed in Jamaica, where Hallam died.

Moreover, nor did he mention the fact that the change would require the installation of 800 new camera systems to monitor average speed, when, in fact, speed cameras are seen by the Tories as instruments of the devil (after his appointment last May, he immediately scrapped central government support for cameras, forcing some authorities to remove them).