diablerie
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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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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
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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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In this were assembled all the diablerie, usually comprising a dozen principal personages; and from thence issued a terrible storm of howls and shrieks.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
Her face took on that fascinating diablerie which men found irresistible.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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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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
Milton was notoriously fond of high romance and gothic diableries; and Collins, who in genius and enthusiasm bore no very distant resemblance to Milton, was wholly carried away by the same attachments.
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William
These old countries are full of romances and legends and diableries of all sorts, in which truth and lies are so mixed that one does not know what to believe.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
It is a strange wild piece, quite in the German style and full of horrors and diableries.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
