The word Mephistopheles can be written in shorthand with one-sixth the number of strokes that is required in longhand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

Loving Mephistopheles is ambitious in its reach and in a way that meant there was almost too much for this reader to cope with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Mephistopheles] Reference

(The review in The New York Times called his Mephistopheles "irresistible" even though "you know you shouldn't go near him.").    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

The man ran easily, holding a long tube identical to that in Mephistopheles’ hand, only with a guttering, dancing flame at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music, writing notes, and Mephistopheles Doufis] Reference

Mephistopheles is one step closer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Blue] Reference

"Mephistopheles;" but nothing more than the report has been heard from it during the past three or four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

"Mephistopheles," grand opera in a prologue, four acts, and epilogue, words by the composer, was first performed at La Scala, Milan, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

(almost inversions of each other), "Mephistopheles," and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

Dressed in an Armani suit, Mephistopheles appears.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Mephistopheles and leaves poor Gretchen to her doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

'It is left to thee,' says the Lord to Mephistopheles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

Mephistopheles sits, uninvited, on an Oval Office sofa.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Mephistopheles however sends him back to demand admittance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

In response, the Devil's representative Mephistopheles appears.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Amidst their drunken uproar Faust and Mephistopheles disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

"Don't be absurd," Mephistopheles shoots Obama a withering look.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

And with just that hint of brimstone in the air, Mephistopheles goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Meanwhile however Mephistopheles presents himself and is accepted as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

"All I'm saying is, I'll take it to the boss," Mephistopheles grumbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Finally Mephistopheles bores holes in the table and draws wine from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

Mephistopheles -- are we to regard him as a self-existent genuine demon of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

He is then hurried away by Mephistopheles back into the world of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

Mephistopheles now wishes to take his leave, promising to visit Faust again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

Mephistopheles picks him up and carries him away -- with contemptuous remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

"Mr. President," Mephistopheles smiles -- but the president's manner is brusque.    From Wordnik.com.  [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference

Mephistopheles and clapping his hands, his fiancee Bertha, a poor seamstress soon enters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

"I mean you don't see Mephistopheles rising in that gentle cloud of steam from my glass?".    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Mephistopheles hastily exchanging words with his lady-love, vanishes into his sleeping room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Mephistopheles scoffs at the scholars who would explain a living creature by anatomising it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Among these brawling comic-songsters Mephistopheles is in his element, and he treats them to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

The court astrologer announces the play and Mephistopheles is installed in the prompter's box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference