In the Old Testament the incubus was viewed as a voluptuous being eager to mate with women. |
It is, however, an incubus for some three dozen of the world's poorest countries. |
Many economists have in recent decades come to be persuaded that there is a way to get the political incubus off the economy's back. |
Like an incubus, it sucks all the economic resources of the world, and robs it of the best talent. |
The earliest literary sources have Merlin as a wonder child, born of an incubus, and a Welsh nun. |
I wriggled my back in order to discover, if I could, the nature of the incubus. |