devil
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Like the devil in that famous ad, it’s their idea of a good time.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Chief Troy Knowlton of Piikani First Nation put it more bluntly, telling the BBC he would rather be "dealing with the devil that we know today".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
There was the time — actually, it happened twice — when her character, Dr. Marlena Evans, was famously possessed by the devil and even levitated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Twelve-year-old Nellie had served the family enterprise as a volunteer printer’s devil; now she launched a weekly paper called the Penfield Extra, which soon earned widespread fame as Little Nellie’s Little Paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“I never hear the other kind, so Mom got me that devil disguised as a clock.”
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
In Naiguata, a small coastal town famous for its traditional "dancing devils" festival, Cesar Rendon, 49, a former inmate who lived in the town's halfway house, confides that he "unburdened himself" with Apostol.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
As Mr. Wright reminds us, both Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain started as printer’s devils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Like amateur detectives, we learn alongside them as they click around pages about Sumerian devils, Catholic saints and the origin of the nursery rhymes “London Bridge” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Scientists later realized that the sounds came from the very center of the dust devils.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
“Tell him we’re not devils, but we’ve got friends who are. And we’re looking for...Just a child. A strange child. Tell him that.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Come to the Witch’s Cottage in NoHo for the hidden wonders, but stay for dragon-themed deviled eggs and rum-heavy cocktails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Over deviled eggs and hash I finally felt comfortable in my own seat.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
Naturally, it now promotes potatoes as a trick-or-treat option—or “trick-or-tater,” as the association puts it—and suggests any number of Halloween-themed potato recipes, such as one for Devilish Potatoes, a twist on deviled eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Why do deviled eggs get their renaissance — topped with trout roe, no less — while the stuffed tomato remains the punchline of a joke no one quite remembers?
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
They got under way slicing ham, laying out fried chicken, shaking paprika on the deviled eggs.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
They included flavors from an elaborately moulded and colored iced spinach à la crème, to little devilled ices in cups.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023
At La Mercerie, in SoHo, the dish looks more like oeufs mimosa, or devilled eggs, with the cavity of each egg half filled with mayonnaise and sprinkled with grated yolk.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2018
Not long ago, she won first prize in the annual church fair for her hot devilled crab cakes.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2015
Meanwhile, if The Neighbors, about a couple moving into a gated community populated by extraterrestrials, were a canapé, it would be a molecular-gastronomy mishap, and Malibu Country a slightly-off devilled egg.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
While his Scots friends are deviling the English on the border, Pierre lands in Cornwall and tries to dethrone Tudor King Henry VII.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.
From Time Magazine Archive
After first appearing on the West Coast, shortages have cropped up throughout the Midwest and are now be deviling construction in the East, partly because West Coast builders have been snapping up supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trucks barreled down the long, winding road, their passengers silenced by the dust deviling up and by the heat.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
The department and the Pinkertons have been devilling the life out of me about it for nine months.
From The Lost Road by Davis, Richard Harding
And the devilling and the creaming are sometimes better than the chocolate and the biscuit.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
They were devilling him over at Trabue's office awhile ago about his failure and your big success.
From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)
Prepare the lobster as for devilling, omitting, however, the mustard.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Parloa, Maria
She would take no pleasure in devilling a man.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
