'devilishness' and we to being 'possessed by the devil.'. From Wordnik.com. [Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem] Reference
For unredeemed devilishness, the dervishes have had no equals. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
And there's a little devilishness there, I think, in my smile. From Wordnik.com. [Vernon Can Read! A Memoir] Reference
In a fit of devilishness, Mia pinched one very hard, but very quickly. From Wordnik.com. [EROTICA: SARTRE - CaraMia by Tamara A. Adrine-Davis] Reference
Fear was strong in their faces, and the devilishness which comes of fear. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
But nothing conjured away that bellyful of black devilishness with which he was enceinte. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
And if there was any way in the world, I'd work into my speech the devilishness of the white man. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
But the devilishness in his heart continued, broken by moments of tenderness or pity or self – doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Jenne, Howarth and Wilson, you are arrant cowards, and your weakness is only exceeded by the devilishness of your malice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier] Reference
The other was Tara, beaming at the camera with her exuberant clear-skinned smile and a devilishness maybe deeper than her father's. From Wordnik.com. [There Is A Season]
Give me a little light-haired woman for sheer devilishness!. From Wordnik.com. [Where there's a Will] Reference
Let us go away lest we be entrapped into some devilishness. '. From Wordnik.com. [Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories] Reference
That great, new steamer piled up there by somebody's devilishness!. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
Garrett chimed in, the devilishness sinking from his eyes down into. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference
"I can't leave you here, Annette, helpless among all this devilishness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Plunderer] Reference
The whole devilishness of the Prussian ideal is expressed in that black cross. From Wordnik.com. [Over There War Scenes on the Western Front] Reference
That was barbarity, imbecility, and devilishness, but it was not Potterism, said Gideon grimly. From Wordnik.com. [Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract] Reference
Who else, of all on board the Ariel, would have dared such devilishness with the lady-god's bed?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
I knew that as well as he, but I knew that it was devilishness, that he would n't give me a pass. From Wordnik.com. [A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada] Reference
Pity crept into the hard faces of rough soldiers; the devilishness of this judge appalled even them. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Mask] Reference
After an impatient moment's hope that devilishness might develop, he said, 'She hasn't seen you yet.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Wasn't the dead man stretched in the shadow convincing proof of their capacity for pure devilishness?. From Wordnik.com. [Raw Gold A Novel] Reference
The ostensible ground for her futile bit of devilishness was that she fancied Sandra to have betrayed Barto. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
She decided that it was best to forget both Alcatraz and his master: they were equally matched in devilishness. From Wordnik.com. [Alcatraz] Reference
He could not have called himself "Saucy," for nothing of impetuosity or dare-devilishness was ever manifested in his career. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Commodore John Barry] Reference
The male tiger, either taught by his own devilishness, or by those brutes that were his keepers, had still another ruse in store. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Continent] Reference
And the man’s face was a study of anger and devilishness growing under humiliation. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Who else, of all on board the Ariel, would have dared such devilishness with the lady-god’s bed?. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXI] Reference
Let all devilishness alone and work hard; that's the antidote for idleness, and it's overmuch of idleness that's been your ruin. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Just and the Unjust] Reference
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