Use devil in a sentence
Sentences starting with devil
- Devil of a speech that! [11]
- Devil knows what she is. [9]
- Devil as she is, I want to do her justice. [11]
- Devil take you all, dance! [4]
- Devil take you! [2]
Sentences ending with devil
- One of them was "disfigured with a great skin, his head hung around with little skins of weasels and other vermin, with a crownlet of feathers on his head, painted as ugly as the devil. [4]
- They were going to examine her, but she stopped them, and confessed straight off that her power was from the Devil. [5]
- A moment later the paper was snatched from his hand, and a red-faced unkempt scoundrel yelled in his face: "Spy of the devil! [11]
- Would it mar the flow of the thing too much to insert that devil? [5]
- Now isn't she the devil? [5]
- On the contrary, the deviations made from his theory were, in his opinion, the sole cause of the whole disaster, and with characteristically gleeful sarcasm he would remark, "There, I said the whole affair would go to the devil! [2]
- Who told you that I was of the Devil? [10]
- I am sorry that I called you a devil. [11]
- But for all that he was possessed of a devil. [11]
- My wonder is that Anson, poor devil! [11]
Short sentences using devil
- The devil fetch my memory! [9]
- You are a devil. [11]
- He was a devil. [11]
- It beats the devil! [4]
- Go to the devil! [2]
- A perverse, jealous devil! [13]
- It was that devil Tom. [5]
- He'll recognize the devil first! [9]
- The devil is dead! [11]
- You made me a devil! [11]
Sentences containing devil two or more times
- If he chooses to vote for the Devil, that is his lookout;--perhaps he thinks the Devil is better than the other candidates; and I don't doubt he's often right, Sir. [6]
- A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin. [5]
- To the devil, the devil, the devil..." cried the old count. [2]
- They ride like the devil, fight like the devil, but don't care a picayune for anything. [9]
- Perry used to take Ralph to task for not saving Ham from his iniquities, and Ralph would reply that Ham was going to the devil anyway, and not even the devil himself could stop him. [9]
- To refute him someone would have to prove to him that there is no devil, or another peasant would have to explain to him that it is not the devil but a German, who moves the locomotive. [2]
- Joan picked him out on sight, but it wasn't a mistake; no one could be faithfuler than he was, and he was a devil and the son of a devil when he turned himself loose with his ax. [5]
- She knew that he was possessed of a devil, of a very reserved devil, but liable to bold action on occasions. [11]
- Were it the devil himself in human form, I should work and pray and hope, as my duty is, though he should still remain the devil to the end. [11]
More example sentences with the word devil in them
- If you keep your mouth shut, and the devil doesn't put his finger into the pie, I think, spite of all the Zorrillos, I shall be Eletto to-morrow. [10]
- Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
- The devil has you by the hair--death--death--death! [11]
- That Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats, if we was to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him. [5]
- To the devil with the Frenchies! [11]
- And so we will work together, fool: you for the morning, I for the afternoon, and the devil take the night-time! [11]
- And ask Gaslerie why the devil he don't send along my commission as Deputy Sheriff. [5]
- One poor devil who had waddled (failed) in Change Alley had collected under his mattress the letters of Junius, then selling the Public Advertiser as few publications had ever sold before. [9]
- Wasn't it natural, when you were playing the devil with yourself, that I should step in and give you a hand? [11]
- Three years afterward, when there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificed to appease the devil, the princess came to him, warned him of his danger, and led him secretly and alone in the night to the camp of a chieftain who protected him. [4]
- Late one night when the sweethearts had been having a flawless visit together, Sally's interior devil began to work his specialty, and soon the conversation was drifting toward the customary rock. [5]
- But say, Paaker, what devil of amiability took possession of you down by the river, that you let the rascal escape unpunished. [10]
- And if it were proved to her that you were in love with Miss Swain, the barrister's daughter, over whom we were said to have fought, she would as soon marry Chartersea, or March, or the devil, to show you how little she cared. [9]
- You see it was this way: Snow Devil said something about someone that belonged to me, that cares more about me than I deserve. [11]
- His whole appearance was so grotesque, I felt for a minute as if there was a showman behind him who would pull him down presently and put up Judy, or the hangman, or the Devil, or some other wooden personage of the famous spectacle. [6]
- Eh, well, there was more than one devil made sometime in the North West. [11]
- What the devil was it in her that made him so uncomfortable? [9]
- At last he was able to say: "Good luck to you, Nic, and to the devil with the Rebellion! [11]
- Why, if I wanted that half-breed devil to drownd me they could get me to tell. [5]
- A poor devil trying to escape the law! [11]
- Th' bloody devil took th' shirt off Teddy's back this morn. [9]
- They spun yarns to this unworthy devil, too. [5]
- Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell--you and the gods! [11]
- Kentucky can go to the devil, half the stations be wiped out, and not a thrip do they care. [9]
- What Appenzelder ascribed to the devil himself, he attributed merely to the fervour of her fiery artist temperament. [10]
- They go shortly to the devil for a year--(which is but a poetical way of saying they are going to afflict themselves with the unsurpassable--(bad word) of travel for a spell. [5]
- Then fell she to swear and tear, to curse and damn, casting the Ruffs under feet, and wishing that the Devil might take her when she wear any of those Neckerchers again. [4]
- He was going to say, "There's that devil Marchand's designs on my bridge," but he thought better of it and stopped. [11]
- Obligato, which is to say Leicester yonder, hath no tail--the devil cut it off and wears it himself. [11]
- The little devil, to put him in a hole like this! [11]
- As he went to his cabin he murmured to himself "There's the devil to pay: now I wonder who pays? [11]
- Suddenly he said to himself, as he ran a brush around his coat-collar: "'Pon my soul, I forgot; this is my wedding day!--the great day in a man's life, the immense event, after which comes steady happiness or the devil to pay. [11]
- A plumber was to him the devil, and I have no doubt that, in his scheme, plumbers were foreordained to do him mischief. [4]
- You helped Clark to capture that country," and he waved his hand towards the northern shore; "why the devil don't you tell me about it? [9]
- There was no time to think; my great fear was that the devil in the cabin would kill Polly Ann. [9]
- The magnetism of this deep penetrating man, possessed of a devil, was on him, and in spite of every reasonable instinct he turned to him for companionship. [11]
- I am in this comfortable little hotel, and still in bed--for I dasn't budge till I'm safe from my pet devil, bronchitis. [5]
- But he was thinking instead of how the angel and the devil may live side by side in a man, and neither be entirely driven out--and the angel conquer in great times and seasons. [11]
- We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see. [11]
- We'll be happy--but there's a devil in me. [13]
- If the devil then had power over his soul, his imps might drag him wherever they pleased, if only he might see little Juli there and hear her call "Baba" and "Father. [10]
- You Americans are the very devil for independence, Miss Manners! [9]
- Then three of the strikers that had been turned away--they was the ringleaders--they laid a plan that'd make the devil sick. [11]
- The presence in the pool of a slimy eel or a blundering bullhead or a lethargic sucker is bad enough, but the rush in of the pickerel is the advent of the devil himself. [4]
- Why, Washington, in the Oriental countries people swarm like the sands of the desert; every square mile of ground upholds its thousands upon thousands of struggling human creatures--and every separate and individual devil of them's got the ophthalmia! [5]
- Abe had got the news from one of Nancy's half-breeds, and, with the devil raging in his heart, had entered on the chase. [11]
- It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheon on door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse. [10]
- The devil dragged the man who did that down to the lower regions long ago, on account of my tongue. [10]
- The devil, in the language of orthodox theology, had led him there. [9]
- If it is the hand of the devil it is not good for us," remarked Pierre. [11]
- The fighting and the gold as you and the devil agree! [11]
- Send him to the devil, I'm busy! [2]
- Send him to the devil with a true bill of crime. [11]
- If you and the devil started business in the same street, you'd make him close up shop in a year. [11]
- As it was, the Devil of Estrangement might well be content with his night's work. [11]
- Only don't rouse the devil in me by praying for Tull! [13]
- That is when the devil have a grand fete. [11]
- I wonder what the devil has become of that man. [5]
- And even as the devil can quote Scripture to his purpose, Mr. Fox quoted history and the classics, with plenty more that was not above the heads of the booted and spurred country squires. [9]
- Ah, go to the devil and fetch the kettle, fool! [11]
- Besides Philip hated the copying of pleadings, and he was certain that a life of "whereases" and "aforesaids" and whipping the devil round the stump, would be intolerable. [5]
- She had answered that the dear Luc could go to the devil for all of her; he'd find better company down below than in Pontiac. [11]
- Ah, Young Aleck, that is what they say--the devil for the devil's luck. [11]
- The poor devil that Inspector Jules would arrest--well, he will get off, perhaps, but that does no one harm. [11]
- Oh, how could that devil try to kill you! [11]
- What devil was tempting him to break his vows and forsake his faith? [4]
- The man who tells a lie to help a poor devil out of trouble is one of whom the angels doubtless say, "Lo, here is an heroic soul who casts his own welfare into jeopardy to succor his neighbor's; let us exalt this magnanimous liar. [5]
- We too will take part..." the reader went on, and then paused ("Do you see," shouted the youth victoriously, "he's going to clear up the whole affair for you...."), "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil. [2]
- A strange and surly soldier came and went, bringing bread and water; but when I asked that a physician be sent me, he replied, with a vile oath, that the devil should be my only surgeon. [11]
- The devil interfered subtly, as usual--now in the person of Jerry Kyme. [9]
- It's an old story," said Mr. Colfax, hotly, "and why the devil did we fight England if it wasn't that every man should have his rights? [9]
- Confound it, we stopped talking and did nothing but stand up in the boat and search the horizons with the glass and wonder what in the devil had happened. [5]
- Mathilde is better--so still and desolate, yet not wild; but her memory is all gone, all save for that "Francois Bigot is a devil. [11]
- And you can start a boulder, and send it tearing up the earth and crashing over trees-down-down-down-to the very devil, Madam. [5]
- He would as soon sign papers with the devil. [9]
- Why, there were some things about it that made you think what a nice kind of world this would be if people ever took hold together, instead of each fellow fighting it out on his own hook, and devil take the hindmost. [8]
- He was like some mad devil, and by his imprecations I knew that he was avenging the brutal death of his infant daughter some years before. [11]
- Alphonse has the smallpox and Susanne the croup--damned devil! [11]
- There was one small countess, with an iron ring in her snout and hardly any hair on her back, that was the devil for perversity. [5]
- Suppose the minister should side with the Lord or the Devil, according to the salary offered and other incidental advantages, where the soul of a sinner was in question. [6]
- Capture the admiral's ship and we can play the devil with the rest of them. [11]
- Like the devil, she is ubiquitous. [11]
- He has been sent by the devil himself, I believe, to ruin this country. [9]
- That is the selfish devil in me. [11]
- Now holy superstition seized him in the midst of the work of the devil, surrounding him with an almost medieval instinct. [11]
- Mother, you never saw such a winning little devil. [5]
- This morning I said to Nanette, 'Why is't, all in one moment, you send me to the devil, and pray to meet me in Abraham's bosom too? [11]
- Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches. [5]
- It is a river of desolation; and instead of reminding you, like other beautiful rivers, of an angel which has descended for the benefit of man, you imagine it a devil, whose energies have been only overcome by the wonderful power of steam. [5]
- In this last respect, servants are the devil. [12]
- Ours was a reasonably comfortable ship, with the customary sea-going fare --plenty of good food furnished by the Deity and cooked by the devil. [5]
- If the Devil really built it, he is to be credited with one good thing, and it is now likely to be finished, in spite of him. [4]
- All shall be quite fair, as when you and I played in the little house by the Chaudiere--at first, Lucy,--before I was a devil. [11]
- It would have puzzled the devil himself! [2]
- To the ignorant populace the Vier Prison was the home of noisome serpents and the rendezvous of the devil and his witches of Rocbert. [11]
- Speak to the poor devil, Fielding," he added quickly, in a low tone. [11]
- I like the poor devil, but anyhow I'm not in a position to be going around with ginger-tea in a spoon, or Ecclesiastes under my arm,--very good things. [11]
- Every time a poor devil has been set upon his feet I have detected your hand in it--incorrigible ass! [5]
- Oh, let a poor devil alone! [5]
- The sweetest angel or the coolest devil is a woman. [4]
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