This for thy service I will grant thee freely: All devils shall, as thou dost, like horns wear, And none shall scorn Belphegor's arms to bear.

The recluse, isolated and lonely, consumed himself with phantoms, fancied devils, and "chimeras dire."

With a movement as quick as a cat's and presence of mind that accounted for his being leader of the gang, he seized the fifth man by the neck and spun him round to call his attention; and the two came for me together like devils out of a spring-trap.

We went on knocking, taking turns, until the door opened at last and the banker's servant peered at us with a candle in his hand, demanding to know in the name of the thousand and one devils whom Solomon boiled in oil what impudent scavengers were making all that noise.

In any case they are more fortunate than poor devils like Codd and myself.

Nobody suspected that the bedlam harked back to the jungle, to black folk in African kraals beating tom-toms and howling, not in grief, but in an ecstasy of terror lest the souls of their dead might come back in the form of tigers or pythons or devils and work woe to the tribe.

Every body knows the grand verse (not, however, quite original) that summons the devils to council, "Chiama gli abitator," &c.; and the still grander, though less original one, describing the desolations of time, "Giace l'alta Cartago.

It is only children who can see the risen Christ; children, perhaps, out of whom seven devils have been cast.

All the figures are shrouded in a blank starless gloom; to read the play is to watch the riot of devils.

Absolute strangers told me facts about myself which not even my own wife knew: whether they spoke with the tongues of devils, or whether, by some unknown laws of magnetism, they simply read my thoughts, I am not even now prepared to say.

It was an extremely fiendish country, and naturally the inhabitants fought like devils.

"He has the pride of ten thousand devils in him.

Sister Emmerich saw Jesus deliver Mara from four devils and grant her forgiveness of her sins on the 17th Elud (9th September) of the second year of his public life.

At Gergesa, a part of the mountain from which the devils had cast themselves with the swine into a marsh, fell into this same marsh; and I then saw a band of evil spirits cast themselves into the abyss, like a dark cloud.

He had the vessels put in safety, and then an awful storm arose: the devils cast themselves howling into the sea, and half the city fell down.

Morgante, one of these giants, who is converted, becomes a sort of squire to his conqueror, and takes such a liking to him, that, seeing him one day deliver himself not without peril out of the clutches of a devil, he longs to go and set free the whole of the other world from devils.

There are no such devils as these in Dante; though Milton has something like them: "Devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds: men only disagree.

Perhaps it's two devils, Filthy-dog and Foul-mouth, or Itching and Evil-tail.

" "Have him out," said Orlando, "whoever he is, even were it as many devils as were rained out of heaven into the centre.

"I could find it in my heart," said Morgante, "to go down to those same regions below, and make all the devils disappear in like manner.

Libicocco, and Malacoda; names of devils in Dante.]

More frightened than ever, the mother ran to the priest, who told her that those were devils tempting the child, but not to fear, for she would certainly become a saint.

The place was full of foolhardy little dare-devils who trusted their fate and might never find it out.

"Now my lord speaks truly, as do the foreign devils to the shameless, open-faced women.

And Benoni laughed that horrid laugh of his, till the court rang again, as though there were devils in every corner, and beneath every eave and everywhere.