devil
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“It was really nice because she’s the horror woman. She’s tatted up — I have a biker family. She has the devil on this arm and the angel on this arm. She’s a punk Chicana.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Creative director Seán McGirr brought the brand back to its roots, with a runway of devil horns, lace corsets and chainmail skull dresses.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The devil will be in the details of the report — and the cost of housing could tilt the scales.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Its unusual, almost supernatural appearance inspired its name: Thismia daemona, the "devil flower."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to what I’d heard, the devil himself was a saint compared to Traft Martin.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
Although he produced little in 1936, Klee’s last three years were increasingly prolific, and his subjects—death, violence, devils and angels—grew otherworldly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
Ash devils are dangerous because they can spit out hot ash and start new fires in all directions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
She demanded, “He shall not die in that chamber. Philosophers require a whole retinue of devils for their removal from this world. They are the grandees of the infernal kingdom.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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
Short remembered how Beckstrom loved cooking, baking and gardening, canning hot peppers, and eating deviled eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
“We can have us some deviled eggs and tuner-fish sandwiches right here in the kitchen, Comfort,” he went on.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
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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
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But he got his biggest cheers when he returned to deviling his absent rivals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
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
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
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
When they ain't devilling the life out of their step-mother they're worrying somebody else.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
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