diablerie

The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.

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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.

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Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak.

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What!" cried Plainworth, "and is Wonderlove so ready to give up such a likely and well-authenticated tale of diablerie?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

This "Black Doctor" is not a trout-fly, nor the sort of person who might be expected in a story of diablerie.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'.

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He cannot be unreal—the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic diableries as of his most everyday studies of society; is unsurpassed.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

But in spite of his temper and his diableries he was very lovable and everybody liked him.

From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

I want it to be pleasant and gay, and to throw myself en garçon on the festive diableries de Paris.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth

How beautiful are the scenes, about to follow, depicted in the overtures to Der Freyschutz and Oberon; what wild diableries are not suggested by those wonderful compositions!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various