diablerie
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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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Tristan is a fifteenth-century story of the later part of the Hundred Years' War, and of Gilles de Retz, and of Joan of Arc, and of diablerie, and so forth.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Some eighteen months had elapsed in this fashion when Aurore began to tire of diablerie.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas
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'.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
What if no more are the grisettes of Paul de Kock and Murger to fascinate the eye with wistful diableries?
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
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
