It knows how to respond to the "diablerie" of the abysses with a reciprocal gesture. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
I feel that there are times when my ebullience, my wealth of genteel diablerie, my flow of. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
But you cannot tell what diablerie they may be up to. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Stone] Reference
Evidently, the man was getting excited by his own diablerie. From Wordnik.com. [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference
But what most of all attracted him to Capitola was her diablerie. From Wordnik.com. [Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'] Reference
Often enough a spice of diablerie in a woman at once enhances all her charms. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
And his variations, his diablerie of sirens and harpies, on such a night, made. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
"Madame has the tres diablerie, cross as de two steeks, what you call it, dis morning.". From Wordnik.com. [Five Little Peppers Midway] Reference
"You have -- have you?" thought I; "there is diablerie in the business after all, then!". From Wordnik.com. [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.] Reference
If Boreyko's more severe side enhanced the diablerie of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
This is a case of a really believed legend of diablerie becoming the source of a literary fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
Neither "realist" or "psychologist" hits the mark, when it comes to the true diablerie of living people. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
They possessed, though, a certain vivacity and diablerie that the big, slower-witted Swede girls lacked. From Wordnik.com. [Half Portions] Reference
Glen, which has never been surpassed in weirdness, mystery, and diablerie, and at times in actual sublimity. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference
She had all of the quickness and diablerie usually summed up in that most expressive American word, "smartness.". From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
It was not unbecoming, though, and lent her, somehow, a spiritual look which made her diablerie all the more piquant. From Wordnik.com. [Half Portions] Reference
I am hammering away at a bit of a story from the old affair of the diablerie at Woodstock in the Long Parliament times. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
Gothic -- and the writhing diablerie of Rodin imitators the simplicity and directness of Constantin Meunier is refreshing. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, delicate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, deli-cate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
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