There are sceptical thoughts, which seem for the moment to uproot the firmest faith: there are blasphemous thoughts, which dart unbidden into the most reverent souls: there are unholy thoughts, which torture with their hateful presence the fancy that would fain be pure.

The last traces of the hateful presence faded as he did.

The President appeared to be convinced instead by those aides who argued that the Sri Lankan army had failed to achieve a military victory and had become such a hateful presence in Tamil areas that such a victory was no longer possible.

She now wished for only one thing - to be rid of his hateful presence.

Besides, he sensed its hateful presence, the coiled energy of its predatory patience.

So there was Charles, a hateful presence in the house; and that scene in the stables had brought home a sudden and horrible realization.

A harsh, hateful presence, like the endless pain of a nagging tooth.

The imposter's hateful magnetic presence pulls him forward.

There was no question that he had been pulled back from the fantasy into which he had tried to escape, no doubt that his attention was now fully commanded by this world, by the chilling reality of Grace Spivey's hateful presence.

The people in the yard heard the marvelous sound, and rushed to the wall and climbed to the rampart to see the terrible Coranyid retreating, shrinking away in agony, their hateful presence dissolving like a filthy stain before the cleansing water.