devil
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Its unusual, almost supernatural appearance inspired its name: Thismia daemona, the "devil flower."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"The devil will be in the detail," Menon summarised on the talks with Burnham.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
She laughs off critics who post pictures of her with devil horns, saying she’s really just a PTA mom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It could be "very meaningful", he said, but "as always, the devil is in the detail".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
His shoulder had begun to throb and smart from the goldsmith’s touch, like a sleeping devil roused to angry wakefulness, but the greatest pain was in his mind.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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
“The little devils stole everything I had,” I said, “my traps, my gunny sack, apples, lunch, and all. I guess they’ve even got my beanshooter by now. When I ran off, I dropped it, too.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
It is all preparation of frilly dresses, cakes, deviled eggs, and the anticipation of proper dancing and other carefully prescribed and restrained social interactions between the sexes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
In his spare time, Louie crashed society weddings, worked as a movie extra, and harassed his housemates with practical jokes, replacing their deviled ham with cat food and milk with milk of magnesia.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
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
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
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
When they ain't devilling the life out of their step-mother they're worrying somebody else.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
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 George Saintsbury
She would take no pleasure in devilling a man.
From The Heart of the Range by William Patterson White
Pam's declaration that 'war' was possible in certain emergencies—when, for instance, the king should have been crucified and the princesses vanished—was the only thing like devilling I heard from him yet.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
He had, during the last four years, done a good deal of "devilling"; he had attended at the Old Bailey watching for "soups" with untiring patience.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
