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Sentence Examples
| It seems Faustus hears what the Evil Angel says, but tells himself that even if he were a devil, God will pity him if he repents. |
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| Different people brought out different sides of him, and he was known to be an angel to those he liked and a devil to those he despised. |
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| There are twenty-four tracks where she'll scream and shout and raise the devil. |
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| He could invoke saints and employ relics, sprinkle holy water and exorcise the devil. |
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| This is a car that lives by its 7,000 rpm redline and brings out the devil in whoever sits behind the wheel. |
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| They think all Wiccans and witches are up to no good, worshiping the devil and defying God. |
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| If the devil was a real angel to begin with, how ever did he come to revolt against God? |
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| In other words, the world, the flesh, and the devil are formidable obstacles to responding to the light and grace that God gives. |
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| She begins to curse the summoner for his unfair request, saying that she would like to give his body to the devil. |
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| Could the devil be working through the revengeful gravedigger, or had the wine master simply added too many chemicals by mistake? |
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| At night, take a torch and you can get within yards of marsupials, including the faintly horrid Tasmanian devil. |
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| However, when he was away from home, she hastened to accuse him of being in league with the devil. |
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| It was a local story that inspired the poem about a drunken farmer who laughs at the devil and only just escapes. |
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| The shock registered on Ethan's face, but for a man who was told his father could be the devil, he didn't seem completely surprised. |
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| With the devil given the chance to inhabit a body and repent, the mood is strictly Clerkenwell cabaret. |
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| In the absence of a real left alternative, the working class had to choose between one devil and another. |
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| He says certain books, and even scary Halloween horror movies, tempt people to the devil. |
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| In the God-fearing, heavily Baptist town of West Memphis, devil worshiping became a scourge to exorcise. |
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| Justice must be equitably distributed ... If Taylor is the only devil, it is unfair. |
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| He's a little devil for her, but angelic for everyone else he meets. |
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| In the 18th century, epilepsy marked a person as evil, full of sin, possessed by the devil. |
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| A misfit according to his mother, he reportedly told a friend the devil was after him. |
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| As polite as the Gods were about it, this blue-eyed devil knew he was at the wrong table. |
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| The threatened animals include birds such as the ground parrot and eastern quoll and marsupials such as the Eastern barred bandicoot and Tasmanian devil. |
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| Your brother and many in the official Iranian media accuse your confidants of voodoo and devil worship. |
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| A rich understanding of the roles of God, the world, the flesh, and the devil in suffering will aid counselors in determining the best responses to their clients' pain. |
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| He's such a lucky devil that he'll probably win the lottery someday. |
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| For both the possessed and the priest-practitioner, driving out the devil can be dangerous to mind, body and spirit. |
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| Another version of the legend directly identifies Dahut's lover with the devil. |
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| To call Mao either the saint or the devil of China is relevant only to those who see history as a branch of ponerology. |
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| Since they have to be back in time for work the next morning they make a pact with the devil. |
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| You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all. |
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| Presumably the devil himself had made the parson pay for desecrating the kistvaens. |
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| In Germany and the Czech lands it was said that the devil would appear in the form of a large black dog. |
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| The deal was that if the devil ever found him asleep in church, he could have his soul. |
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| The devil headed for Widecombe via the Tavistock Inn, in nearby Poundsgate, where he stopped for directions and refreshment. |
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| The devil tethered his horse to one of the pinnacles at Widecombe Church, captured the sleeping Jan Reynolds, and rode away into the storm. |
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| In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is represented as the one who brought death into the world. |
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| If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. |
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| But, I pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil? |
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| The poor devil was too clever by half, and made a big mistake for each of his strokes of genius. |
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| There ain't no reason why the devil should own all the han'some faces 'n' tunesome laughs, 't I know of. |
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| We can be tempted to give up, a condition spiritual writers call acedia, and which is also known as the noon-day devil. |
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| From woolly bears to green grapplers to the hickory horned devil, this book offers a great selection of interesting crawlers. |
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| The West would be wise to think of Putin as the devil it knows. |
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| Can we imagine Stephen Vincent Benet writing The devil and Barbara Boxer? |
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| There are 64 species of oceanic sharks and rays on the list, including hammerheads, giant devil rays and porbeagle. |
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| No, when an alky blacks out, he keeps doing things. An alky in a blackout is a busy little devil. |
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| Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em. |
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| Serving God with one hand and the devil with the other is a style of both-handedness from which we may well pray to be saved. |
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| How angry the poor devil is! In fine, thou art as choleric as a cook by a fireside. |
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| The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made. |
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| As the devil uses witches, To be their cully for a space, That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels For ever may become his vassals. |
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| The devil ensnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. |
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| Somewhat crude occult exploitationer about a little girl who is possessed by a devil. |
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| Drinking and gambling were flirtings with the devil, or giving over to him entirely. So was card-playing. |
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| There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on a folk devil. |
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| But Juliana's uniquely powerful chaining of the devil is surely meant to recall Christ's harrowing of hell. |
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| Holla, there! Holla, there, I say! What the devil are you about with my master's box-coat? |
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| He started back two or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectural oaths, and asked what the devil had brought you here? |
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| And for all those Ledheads, yes, Plant trots the devil out for an appearance, but only a brief one that's free of any worship. |
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| Luciferianism, on the other hand, is a belief system and does not revere the devil figure or most characteristics typically affixed to Satan. |
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| Still, the practice of seeking help to the Jinn is prohibited and regarded the same as seeking help to a devil. |
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| They were also depicted as lustful and perverted, and it was thought that they copulated with the devil at the Sabbath. |
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| The point was that a widespread belief in the conspiracy of witches and a witches' Sabbath with the devil deprived women of political influence. |
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| Occult power was supposedly a womanly trait because women were weaker and more susceptible to the devil. |
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| Juliana describes the life of Saint Juliana, including a discussion with the devil during her imprisonment. |
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| In The Friar's Tale, one of the characters is a summoner who is shown to be working on the side of the devil, not God. |
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| It has been well established for two centuries that Puck and Robin Goodfellow are both names for the devil from English folklore. |
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| The il cornuto, or devil horns, hand gesture was popularized by vocalist Ronnie James Dio while with Black Sabbath and Dio. |
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| A contemporary illustration of the fire shows a devil squatting on the building. |
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| Gray whales were once called devil fish because of their fighting behavior when hunted. |
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| He observed, When you are told a thing is impossible, that there are insuperable objections, then is the time to fight like the devil. |
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| No pinnacle so high but the devil is a bishop over it, to visit and overlook it. |
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| The truth is, celebrity news is even sweeter when the lucky devil is one of us. |
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| We saw a water devil form in the late afternoon on the lake. |
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| The devil will employ anything for you to unfulfill your purpose. |
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| After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily indicates all that the devil, and the city of which he is the prince, shall suffer in the last judgment. |
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| Several religious authors throughout history have advanced the notion that the god of the Old Testament is consistent in character with the devil. |
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| Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you'd meet, he'd already had two-three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old. |
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| Ingersoll maintained further that trained theologians reason no better than a person who assumes the devil must exist because pictures resemble the devil so exactly. |
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| The Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936, and is now found in the wild only in Tasmania. |
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| In addition, four folk drama variants named Sokri, Kolam Nadagam, Pasu, and several devil dance variants such as Sanni Yakuma and Kohomba Kankariya can be also observed. |
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| The title is said to be a reference to the Biblical devil, Beelzebub. |
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| I was lucky, because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. |
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| Their supernatural identities are emphasized by the skulls and bones lying at their feet as well as the devil discreetly peering at them from their left. |
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| It was a folkloric belief that a Devil's Mark, like the brand on cattle, was placed upon a witch's skin by the devil to signify that this pact had been made. |
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| Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death. |
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| He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil. |
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| A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car. |
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| Be careful now, for auto crankers sometimes get broken arms. You take a firm grip on the crank, pull the choke wire and whirl the crank like the very devil. |
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| But a laughing woman, with two bright eyes, is the worsest devil of all. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| This story was followed by another, of a young devil that became a religious of the famous monastery of aba Gatima. |
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| His face was aflame with joy, and he writhed and shook like one who hath a devil. |
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| The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil. |
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| He has developed the astuteness of the devil, the open sincerity of a saint. |
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| But there are wheels within wheels, and it is the little wheels that are the devil. |
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| But I make a bad actor, and artistic effects can go to the devil for all I care. |
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| Whereupon Lord banstead called her a little devil and went off in dudgeon to London and took golden-haired ladies out to supper. |
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| You stick to us in a devil of a manner,' Said barnacle junior, looking over his shoulder. |
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| We shall see the poor devil get out of the carriage, and being fastened on to the bascule, and pulled into the lunette. |
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| Which, by the same token, presently lost track of him entirely, and wandered off to find and bedevil some other poor devil. |
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| It is the birdlime with which the devil catches many a female and male soul. |
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| Every blue devil of my acquaintance came to pay his visit to me, and brought a few more of his private friends. |
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| He laughed at her indignant eyes, touched blue devil with his heel and loped off. |
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| It was Courtlandt on his favorite mount, blue devil, a horse all spirit, shining blue-black satin. |
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| Twelve miles he gave her, but the blue devil rode equally well and sat down again with Charter in his study. |
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| I was really the hero, but the printing devil had made a slip, so instead of applauding you booed. |
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| If ever a poor devil was flabbergasted, it was the head of the Boyne agency at that moment. |
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| Now, how the devil, Bramwell, do you suppose that water color got into a native medicine house? |
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| Why, the little devil looked like a siren and the bare feet in the net were breathtaking. |
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| When the week was up Mat implored to be left behind with Angela, the maid, and brio, a big poodle possessed of the devil. |
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| Say, bronc, what the devil did you keep kickin' me an' trompin' on my feet for? |
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| I've seen him bullyrag a poor devil in the box until he caused him to say just what he wanted. |
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| Frank, why the devil am I not blazing with indignation, and chucking things about. |
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| The Prince of Cochin-China, and where the devil did you find such a prince as that? |
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| A bald black head round like a cannon ball, devil a bit of nose but only a pair of slits like a common seal. |
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| They have been cosseted and comforted and the devil has gone out of their blood. |
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| The devil gave them to his covin and they shot men and women dead, right and left. |
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| And he must have his cabalists, like dec and Allan, for conjuring up the devil. |
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| He found the little devil of a delayer in the paper napkin which he had nervously wadded and dropped on the floor. |
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| Not infrequently the fear of the devil was transformed into indifference, and sometimes even into demonolatry. |
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| This seal of the devil is a small sign-manual, which, as demonological jurisconsults affirm, renders the skin insensible. |
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| But while it lasted no voice rang louder than that of saunders McClellan's devil. |
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| How the devil would have laughed at the idea of a society for saving the world! |
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| Has the devil in this respect a greater power than an angel and a disembodied soul? |
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| Whereupon the devil emptied a dishful of silver money into the prince's bag. |
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| Barthelemy became master of the ship, and lashing it to the sea devil, sailed off with both vessels at a wonderful rate of speed. |
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| The sea devil sailed close up to it, the Dutch consort remaining a little behind. |
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| Your mistress, doited devil, as I maun ca her, ought to be skelpit wi nettles for this calamity. |
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| That's a 'dust devil,' and there's a half dozen more whirling in our direction. |
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| Far across the mesa a dust devil spun up and writhed away toward the distant hills. |
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| The only principle they care for, Elkin interposed, is, To the devil with all principles! |
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| When the word devil is used as a general term or as an expletive the capital is not used. |
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| A devil attired as a priest, teaching a school of little aristocrats, extols the massacre of St. Bartholomew. |
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| I can look any man in the face and tell him to go to the devil. |
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| May the devil make hell-broth of ye both, in his own caldron! |
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| Catlin calls this spirit Okeeheedee, and identifies him as the devil. |
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| Man, the devil does his choicest work through fools, not rogues! |
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| And then, minutes or hours later, close to here, the sea devil had sprung. |
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| There was a man with a cloven hoof, but then he was meant for the devil. |
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| I verily believe you'd kick the devil himself, right on his club-foot! |
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| Sancho Panza, who was wishing the goatherd's loquacity at the devil, on his part begged his master to go into Pedro's hut to sleep. |
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| A man will not be tempted to say the Lord's Prayer backward to please the devil, if he doesn't want the devil's services. |
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| We shall never cast out the devil while conniving at his crimes. |
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| It must be the devil himself to recognize me, accoutered as I am. |
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| The devil himself had taken pleasure in consolidating its foundations. |
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| What the devil did I mean, to play with this brunette of Afric? |
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| That comes of avoiding all allopathic messes like the devil. |
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| Close behind was that amazing devil, Ginger, ambling easily. |
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| Grace and its works are the antitheses of the devil and his works. |
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| His appealingness had for the instant soothed that angry devil in her. |
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| The Ricahecrian may go to the devil and the Blue Mountains alone! |
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| The tall fellow denied it, and there was a devil of a bobbery. |
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| I don't know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked one, I tell ye. |
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| Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? |
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| Why should the elfin's son be worse than the son of the devil himself? |
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| But to disenthrone himself, to descend to the condition of a poor devil! |
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| I am that Merlin who the legends say The devil had for father, and the lie Hath gathered credence with the lapse of time. |
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| Her mother might have been a Jewess or an Armenian or devil knew what. |
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| How the devil are you to get your fellow out of that state of asphyxia? |
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| Men, he argued, were possessed by the devil, corporeally and spiritually. |
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| Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes? |
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| If it's any of my business, how the devil did you ever get into that bally jungle? |
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| Besides, the way people gossip and backbite is the very devil! |
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| The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney's soul and missed the shadow for the substance. |
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| And that is for you to explain what the devil you are doing kidnaping your born brother. |
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| It was with a rare audacity that the devil pitched his tent in Baden! |
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| Gentleman Wakefield,' used to do the same of a Sunday as o' weekdays, and took no heed to right or wrong, as if there was nayther God nor devil. |
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| I can only see red hair, and green eyes, and a general look of the devil. |
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| I've just woke up with the devil of an attack of asthma, and may have to sit up in my chair till morning. |
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| How the devil can she be cuckolded who never yet was married? |
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| Poor devil, he did not know that my criticism was a double ender. |
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| What the devil does Sir John mean by not having a billiard room in his house? |
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| Was he a master of the black art or was he the devil himself? |
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| Gerrish, mounted on the big sorrel, held blue devil by the bridle. |
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| It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity. |
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| But it was too late, the sea devil was too near to be balked of the prey. |
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| Patches was loping along between blue devil and Gerrish's big sorrel. |
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| It's a pity it wasn't the devil himself instead of his fish! |
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| I mean that the great devil of the universe may be sitting on the top tower of this castle at this moment, as big as a hundred elephants, and roaring like the Apocalypse. |
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| Neither was there any possibility of satisfying the covetous little devil. |
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| Lady Arabella, be she woman or snake or devil, owned the ground she moved in, according to British law, and the law is jealous and swift to avenge wrongs done within its ken. |
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| Yet these powers are ever used for good, and they are the gift of God and not of the devil, which is the difference betwixt white magic and black. |
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| Again, he assaulted a man of rubicund visage, and told him that few bosom serpents had more of the devil in them than those that breed in the vats of a distillery. |
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| I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the HISPANIOLA, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle. |
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| A moonfaced Hanna Schygulla, encased in massive, beribboned gowns and elaborate butterfly headdresses, laboriously trails the irritated devil as his would-be wife. |
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