23 examples of bedeviled in sentences

Literally he was simply an "unmixed evil," fighting only to steal something, and devoting what time and talent he could spare from his legitimate professionwhich was seven-upto generally bedevilling and encroaching upon the neighboring Indians.

You felt, for the most part of your stay in this country, flushed and hot and uncomfortable and unbelievably awkward, and you were mercilessly bedeviled there; but not for all the accumulated wealth of Samarkand and Ind and Ophir would you have had it otherwise.

If our eyes are dimmed, we think it safer to clear them, which do belong to us, than to bedevil, by the light of those very ALREADY DIMMED eyes, the objects round, which do not belong to us.

turn topsy-turvy &c (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle^, embrangle^, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle^, dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c (fold) 258. litter, scatter; mix &c 41. rearrange &c 148.

V. practice sorcery &c n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c (influence) 615; taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.

I say that those befrizzled, beruffled, bedeviled Cocks were never stroked and cherished by Nature's maternal hand.

As she came starry-eyed through the gardens, the impudent wind trifling with her hair, I protest she might have been some lady of Oberon's court stolen out of Elfland to bedevil us poor mortals, with only a moonbeam for the changeable heart of her, and for raiment a violet shadow spirited from the under side of some big, fleecy cloud.

Ah, the men that you have flouted and scorned and bedeviled and mocked at, Margaretcould they see you now, I think the basest of them could not but pity and worship you.

There are horse-tamers, born so, as we all know; there are woman-tamers who bewitch the sex as the pied piper bedeviled the children of Hamelin; and there are world-tamers, who can make any community, even a Yankee one, get down and let them jump on its back as easily as Mr. Rarey saddled Cruiser.

It rallied again, a figure bedeviled by vacillation.

A guide for the bedevilled.

A guide for the bedevilled.

R556080. Bedeviled.

R559071. Bedeviled.

The George Macy Companies, Inc. (PWH); 14Dec73; R565644. R565645. Bedeviled.

A guide for the bedevilled.

A guide for the bedevilled.

R556080. Bedeviled.

R559071. Bedeviled.

The George Macy Companies, Inc. (PWH); 14Dec73; R565644. R565645. Bedeviled.

A young man kindly explained to me how Canada had suffered through what he called 'the Imperial connection'; how she had been diversely bedevilled by English statesmen for political reasons.

You hear the song of lashes, the whack of whips, and, now and then, the shout of some bedevilled voice.

Or is it your comrades on the picket-rope that bedevil you?...

23 examples of  bedeviled  in sentences