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Sentences starting with devilish

Devilish uphill work trying to encourage people who dine at seven. [4]

Sentences ending with devilish

All her ways were wicked, all her instincts devilish. [5]
Here foreigners are now hardly looked upon at all as unclean and devilish. [10]
He was surer-footed in a run than at any other fast gait, and his running gave the impression of something devilish. [13]

More example sentences with the word devilish in them

I can tell you (if you don't know it) that you have found the most artful, lying, pilfering, devilish little minx that was ever born.--Have you got her here? [12]
He would just yell that way, not for anything in particular, but merely on account of a kind of devilish comfort he got out of it. [5]
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! [6]
Some devilish incident will twist things out of gear, and then the old Adam must improvise for safety and success. [11]
One of them was as notorious for costly and elegant cigars as I was for cheap and devilish ones. [5]
It gave a touch of the bizarre to a distinguished head, it lent an air of the singular to a personality which had flare and force--an almost devilish force. [11]
Or--the blood rushed to his face--or it might be that the Gipsy's presence here, this display of devilish antipathy, as though it were all part of the music, was due, somehow, to Fleda Druse. [11]
And all the time, and all the time,"--his voice got low with a kind of devilish joy,--"there is a finger--Jesu! [11]
It is full three months since I sent the shrewd and handsome Count Detzin on his devilish mission to my brother's daughter Constance. [5]
And now--now--" The thought of the bridge, of Marchand's devilish design, shot into his mind, and once more he was shaken. [11]
There's only one thing that's alike in us, and that's a devilish self- respect, self-assertion, self-dependence. [11]
He remembered when they two were in trouble with a gang of river-drivers, and one did this same thing rudely: how Gaston looked down, and said, with a devilish softness: "Take it away. [11]
One can see the almost devilish satisfaction he took in it by his giving it his name. [5]
Madelinette was standing, tense and set with terror, her eyes riveted on something that crouched beside a pile of cart-wheels a few feet away; something with shaggy head, flaring eyes, and a devilish face. [11]
It is a stubborn and devilish language to learn, but Jean and the others will master it. [5]
This is a sort of punning insult]--of Wichsenstein was himself your leader yesterday, and it was only by devilish ill-hap that the knave was not with you when I took you! [10]
He pinched me sorely once under the knee, and I returned him one upon the wrist, which sent a devilish fire into his eyes. [11]
I could see something devilish in the smile at Doltaire's lip's, but his look was wandering between Alixe and me, and he replied urbanely, "I have ambition yet--to connive at captivity"; and then he looked full and meaningly at her. [11]
The picture was so ludicrous that Pomfrette laughed with a devilish humour, and flinging the pitcher at the bag, he walked away towards his own house. [11]
Do let me rest a little--just a little; I can't take any more of the devilish stuff now. [5]
He wasn't exactly Pinkerton, and I flatter myself that we were too many for him," said Mr. Cooke, with deserved pride; "and he went away in such a devilish hurry that he forgot his hand-bag with some of his extra things. [9]
But how cast off all the superfluous, devilish burden of my outer man? [2]
As the new master of Tralee stepped forward, the Young Doctor could not help noticing how large and hairy were the ears that stood far out from the devilish head. [11]
With a devilish look in his eye, and drenched and furious, Billy was disposed to resist the command, but the faces around him were determined, and, muttering curses, the three drove away towards the next parish. [11]
I wanted a little inspiration, a little freshening up, a little change of ideas, and-- 'Pon my soul and honour,' said the military gentleman, checking himself and looking round the room, 'what a devilish classical thing this is! [12]
A devilish light leapt into his eye, but it faded as quickly as it came. [11]
McGilveray knew that it might be impossible to reach the fuse--there was no time to spare, and he had set about to row the devilish machine out of range of the vessels which were carrying Wolfe's army to a forlorn hope. [11]
I have made it as caustic, fiendish, and devilish as possible. [5]
The younger members in the club said Henderson was a devilish good fellow, whatever people said. [4]
Reformers like Dimsdale had drawn straight lines of purpose for the salvation of the country, and they had seen these straight lines go crooked under their very eyes, with a devilish smoothness. [11]
There was a great plenty of pictures on the walls, on the shelves of the mantelpiece, and around generally; where coigns of vantage offered were statuettes, and quaint and pretty gimcracks, and rare and costly specimens of peculiarly devilish china. [5]
The old sergeant's glance was full of fury, Parpon's of a devilish sort of glee. [11]
I had at first listened to Clark's delighted imprecations and devilish praises with a feeling of brag almost akin to his own--that was the soldier and the Briton in me. [11]
Approaching Scone, wide farming and grazing levels, with pretty frequent glimpses of a troublesome plant--a particularly devilish little prickly pear, daily damned in the orisons of the agriculturist; imported by a lady of sentiment, and contributed gratis to the colony. [5]
As I started down on them, the coloured fire flew up, making the room all blue and scarlet for a moment, in which I must have looked devilish indeed, with staring eyes, and outstretched chalky hands, and wailing cries coming from my robe. [11]
There was a devilish smile on his face, as wicked a look as I ever saw on any man. [11]
It was a devilish revenge, which he could not resent. [11]
It makes curious, devilish noises when not satisfied, and says "goo-goo" when it is. [5]
It makes curious devilish noises when not satisfied, and says "goo-goo" when it is. [5]
Something strange and devilish leapt into the man's eyes, and he broke out bitterly, "A honey-bee got into a nest of wasps--and died. [11]
I saw with devilish irony that an angel spoke. [11]
There was something devilish in it, when I came to think of it: a whole town roused and abroad to hunt down one poor fugitive, whose only sin was, in themselves, a virtue--loyalty to his country. [11]
He had a devilish feeling of delight in thinking how he would do it, and how red the sabre would look when he had done it. [11]
The closer you came to him, the more compelling was he--a devilish attraction, notably selfish, yet capable of benevolence. [11]
It would seem beyond belief to most folks, he said, yet it was indeed twenty-four thousand, and not hundred, sequins which that devilish Sultan has asked, as indeed we must know from the letter. [10]
Evil spirits have been at work all through, devilish, malignant demons. [10]
It would have been a hideous exhibition, a thoroughly devilish spectacle. [5]
It need not be supposed that he intends the "arch intriguer" Aerssens to stand for himself, or that he would have endured being thought to identify himself with the man of whose "almost devilish acts" he speaks so freely. [6]
I'm devilish sorry, and I do apologise--for although I am not as slow as you are about answering letters, as a rule, I see where I'm standing this time. [5]
It was indeed an unheard-of and devilish extortion; and when Kubbeling came to hear of it he turned his wild-cat-skin pocket inside out, and fell to raging and storming. [10]
Her government is all there; all in that deceptively innocent-looking little book, that cunning little devilish book, that slumbering little brown volcano, with hell in its bowels. [5]
And he has a devilish tricky record, Richard. [9]

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