Usage examples (31)

• The word Mephistopheles can be written in shorthand with one-sixth the number of strokes that is required in longhand.
• Loving Mephistopheles is ambitious in its reach and in a way that meant there was almost too much for this reader to cope with.
• (The review in The New York Times called his Mephistopheles "irresistible" even though "you know you shouldn't go near him.")
• The man ran easily, holding a long tube identical to that in Mephistopheles’ hand, only with a guttering, dancing flame at the top.