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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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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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
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The work was Saint Saën's "Danse Macabre," and in her hands the fierce madness of that remarkable composition was brought out with more than its usual diablerie.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
The world was speedily full of romances of his recklessness, his intrigues, his diablerie, and his munificence.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
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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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 William Collins
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
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
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
