421 examples of devilish in sentences

Cordelia was no sooner gone, than the devilish dispositions of her sister began to shew themselves in their true colours.

Even so is it necessary for us Hindus to repent of the wrong we have done, to alter our behaviour towards those whom we have 'suppressed' by a system as devilish as we believe the English system of the Government of India to be.

But Dorsey on every occasion since had, drunk or sober, boasted of Thunderbolt's victory and taken a devilish delight in rubbing it in on the owner of the Quarter Circle KT.

"Good!" said he; "devilish good!

a soft laugha musical but devilish laughSonia Turgeinov's! CHAPTER XV THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES Mr. Heatherbloom stood as if stunned, his face very pale.

His self-control was perfect, ridiculous, devilish.

"He seems to have laid himself out with the most devilish ingenuity to defeat his own ends.

It was unearthly, it was devilish, a fiendish chorus that was like the laughter of a thousand demonsa pandemonium that shocked her unutterably.

They shook down all hell for a climate to fit, But they couldn't get suited in hell, So they took the worst parts and with devilish arts They built one that suited them well.

And he chuckled with devilish glee "When it comes to making an up-to-date hell They've sure got to hand it to me.

I'd rather, a devilish sight, have those girls than the money you owe me.

The Abolitionists will ferret 'em out, and be down there with their devilish habeas corpus.

The place possessed a devilish fascination.

But we thought we could do a lot with bare hands when we glanced at the spot where the stone centipede had crashed back to its bed, A vision of that devilish carving standing above one in the moonlight was enough to stimulate a person to herculean tasks when he understood that failure would bring him again under its ghastly shadow.

"I tell you I hit him twice, Brucetwice anyway; and I was at a devilish disadvantage!" "'Specially when 'e was lookin' down an' grinnin' in your face," retorted Bruce, who had enjoyed hugely his comrade's ill luck.

As for the heroes of early Christianity, they were madmen or humbugs; their legends, devilish and filthy puerilities.

Look at it, ye who would know what is the tolerance, the freedom from prejudice, which can suffer such an incarnation of all that is devilish to lie unharmed in the cradle of Nature!

One portrait was that of a man of at least fifty: an intellectual head; eyes, I know not what they were,fierce, defiant, hardly human, but earthly, devilish; a mouth repulsive to behold, in its eager, absorbing, selfish expression.

Daily made familiar with the scorching, the searing, the racking, the devilish ingenuities of torture, they transferred them to the future hell of the torturers.

It was more than likely she had nothing but a pretty, shallow little talent for play acting and no notion under the sun of giving up society or matrimony or what-not for the devilish hard work of a stage career.

" "Maybe it is because I do know it and because he is so devilish right that I damn him," observed the youngest Holiday sagely, his eyes meeting his uncle's over his sister's head.

I thought it was worth considerable when I drove that devilish bargain with you to keep it.

And so Kit WilliamsKit is a devilish cunning fellow, you may judge that from his breaking prison no less than five times,so, I say, he threatened to bring his master to trial at 'size all over again, and so frightened him, and got money from him at divers times.

There was something devilish, he thought, in the way she had contrived to shake his self-confidence at the moment of all others when he had needed it.

the devilish emanations of brute chance.

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