Devil
in sentence
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On the hillside a poor
devil
wandered about with his stick in the midst of the diligences.
"How the
devil
did it get into my boots?""It must," she replied, "have fallen from the old box of bills that is on the edge of the shelf."
Who the
devil
prevents you?
And though he knew the poor devil, he pretended to see him for the first time, murmured something about "cornea," "opaque cornea," "sclerotic," "facies," then asked him in a paternal tone—"My friend, have you long had this terrible infirmity?
"The
devil!
'For a poor
devil
like me,' thought Julien, 'without protectors and without money, there will be no great difference between a Seminary and a prison; I must leave my lay clothes in some inn, where I can put on my black coat.
I posted someone at the gate of the Seminary; why the
devil
do you never come out?''It is a test which I have set myself.''I find you greatly altered.
'Your Emperor, may the
devil
fly away with him,' went on the man of four and forty, 'was great only upon his battlefields, and when he restored our financial balance in 1801.
Fortunately, the discussion turned to the question whether Horace had been poor or rich: an amiable person, sensual and easy-going, making poetry for his own amusement, like Chapelle, the friend of Moliere and La Fontaine; or a poor
devil
of a Poet Laureate attached to the court and composing odes for the King's Birthday, like Southey, the traducer of Lord Byron.
'Who is there that has not?''What!' said the Comte de Caylus to Norbert, 'you have M. Sainclair here, the notorious Liberal; what the
devil
can he have come for?
Finally, it occurred to him to apply to a retired Lieutenant of the 96th named Lieven, a poor
devil
with whom he used often to fence.
No doubt the
devil
loses no opportunity there.
I must own, that is far more probable, far more natural than a pretended passion on the part of Mademoiselle de La Mole, for a poor
devil
of a secretary.
It was still only ten o'clock; Julien, intoxicated with happiness and with the sense of his own power, so novel to a poor
devil
like himself, went off to the Italian opera.
The
devil!
A poor
devil
kept down by fate in my lowly station will never find such an opportunity again; I shall have adventures, but tawdry ones ...'He reflected at length, he paced the room with a hurried step, stopping short now and again.
'If that devil, the abbe Castanede has recognised me, he is not the man to be easily shaken off ...
During the two or three amorous impulses to which she has yielded in your favour, by a great effort of imagination, she beheld in you the hero of her dreams and not yourself as you really are ...'But what the devil, these are the elements, my dear Sorel, are you still a schoolboy?
When Madame de Fervaques had the author, a poor
devil
on half pay, deprived of a post worth eighteen hundred francs: "Take care," said I to her, "you have attacked this rhymester with your weapons, he may reply to you with his rhymes: he will make a song about virtue.
It is one o'clock in the morning, I am going to stroll in the garden towards the wall at the far end.''Go to the devil,' the Marquis shouted after him as he left the room.
'What
devil
thought of that malicious touch?
"Why, you skulking little devil, you," they would say, "get up and do something for your living, can't you?" - not knowing, of course, that I was ill.
"Captain Wharton," said the peddler, with great deliberation and marked emphasis, "beware a tall Virginian, with huge whiskers; he is below you, to my knowledge; the
devil
can't deceive him; I never could but once."
"The devil!" cried the captain.
"Well," muttered the leader, as they retired deeper into the wood, "this sottish peddler will stay to see the old
devil
buried; and though we cannot touch him at the funeral (for that would raise every old woman and priest in America against us), he'll wait to look after the movables, and to-morrow night shall wind up his concerns."
"What!" roared the trooper, stopping short as he was about to swallow his morsel, "ancient Jenny!""The devil!" cried another, dropping his knife and fork, "she who made the campaign of the Jerseys with us?""The very same," replied the mistress of the hotel, with a piteous aspect of woe; "a gentle baste, and one that could and did live on less than air, at need.
I have long been wanting something of this sort to send as a present to my old aunt in Virginia, who was so kind to me when a boy.""The devil!" cried Lawton.
"I have you, man or devil!" shouted Lawton, whirling his saber from its scabbard.
There's Hollister put the
devil
in them by his exhorting; the rascals were getting too conscientious to strike a blow that would raze the skin.
Who the
devil
do you think it can be, else?""I don't know who else it can be," returned the fellow, sullenly; "but he has grown thicker and shorter, if it is he; and see for yourself, sir, he shakes all over, like a man in an ague."
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