41 examples of devilries in sentences

I did not like this silence; it made me wonder on what devilry the creatures were bent.

My notion is that some devilry is going on in the West, and I might guess that there's a white man in it."

It is impossible to fathom the minds of rustics; there might be some devilry of practical joking, for anything I knew; or they might have some interest in getting up a bad reputation for the Brentwood avenue.

On the whole he had never enjoyed himself so much in his life; he became proficient in all manner of minor devilries, and was ceasing to trouble himself about his bell or his ecclesiastical duties, when an untoward incident interrupted his felicity.

"What devilry has he been up to now?"

There, amidst riot and devilry, he sat silently puffing at his pipe, with a set face and a smouldering eye.

"There's devilry here," said I. "Give me the crooked stick from the corner.

Giuliano, who had been an associate of the Duke and an abettor of Lorenzino's "devilries," fled precipitately from Florence, and sought the protection of the Duke of Milan.

After all, it is possible for a man without principle, without morality, to begin to make love to a woman in a mere spirit of adventure, in sheer devilry, and to be rather hard hit at the last.

They could transform themselves into the likeness of any animal in the creation, and therefore the better execute their schemes of devilry; but, it appears, that they always wanted that essential partthe tail; and there was a trial gravely reported by a Lancashire jury, that a soldier having been set to watch a mill from the depredations of some cats, skilfully whipped off the leg of the largest, which lo!

"A playful devilry of spirit," "a ceaseless militancy"how stirring to the stagnant lives of prudent regularity!

"A certain playful devilry of spirit," "a ceaseless militancy"for life or death those are the best regulations.

Therefore, if we want to ride with our old devilry and dash, We must put our hands in pockets deep and shovel out the cash.

There is devilry in this.

"They are up to some devilry," said Du Lhut, peering out at the corner of the embrasure.

"What can it be?" "Some fresh devilry, no doubt.

"I fear they are up to some devilry because they are so very still.

And in return he keeps their hearts from that haunting foe, l'ennui; He's their plaything, friend, and sentry too, and a lover of devilry; He helps them to hunt out rats or Boches; he burrows and sniffs for mines,

For what reason he had done so he could not guess; after his experience of yesterday it might have been from pure devilry, or again he might have feared that in desperation, Taynton would take that extreme step of prosecuting him for blackmail.

You'll probably think of some other devilry even worse."

I think Mitchelstown was a disgrace; I think Denshawi was a devilry.

It was only when special orders for "frightfulness" had been issued, or when officers in subordinate command let their men get out of hand, or led the way to devilry by their own viciousness of action, that the rank and file of the enemy's army committed its brutalities.

Now all their six wives were witches and directly their husbands left home the six women used to climb a peepul tree and ride away on it, to eat men or do some other devilry.

Careers, of course, vary; to dominate a continent or to open a corner shop as a pork-butcher's, plenty of devilry may go to either ambition.

I'm convinced that Nap is up to some devilry.

41 examples of  devilries  in sentences