devil
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“I was trying to be the devil onstage and somehow ended up as likable anyway,” he says of his storied career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
It could be "very meaningful", he said, but "as always, the devil is in the detail".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He took inspiration from paintings, including Alexandre Cabanel’s 1847 work “The Fallen Angel,” which depicts the devil after his fall from heaven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
“Aunty, please beg Madam. It is the devil that made me do it.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dust devils are formed on warm, sunny days and are visible due to the dust or hay that they pick up and swirl around.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
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 early as the Revolutionary War, their value to the young nation was such that the Continental Congress exempted printer’s devils from army service.
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
Why, by all the devils and demons, did he tell the little one his real name?
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
Wells Fargo did note that prices for some common cookout sides are lower from this time last year, with the cost to make deviled eggs down 14%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
So spend a little time in the Witch’s Cottage, and maybe you’ll start to imagine that cocktail is a potion, and those deviled eggs did in fact hatch from a dragon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Over deviled eggs and hash I finally felt comfortable in my own seat.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
“I think this caught on because it’s like making a deviled egg but much easier,” Choi told TODAY.com.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
He thanked the Lord for nearly everything under the sun, including the deviled eggs on the plate in front of him.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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
But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
Prepare the lobster as for devilling, omitting, however, the mustard.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa
In English legal phraseology "devil" and "devilling" are used of barristers who act as substitutes for others.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
The department and the Pinkertons have been devilling the life out of me about it for nine months.
From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis
When they ain't devilling the life out of their step-mother they're worrying somebody else.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
Well, I shall win because I want nothing but my fare to London to start there to-morrow earning my own living by devilling for Honoria.
From Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw
