Devil
in sentence
781 examples of Devil in a sentence
"Who the
devil
are you, and where is the Englishman?
I have often been nonplused, though, to find that they used them chariots instead of heavy dragoons, who are, in all comparison, better to break a line of infantry, and who, for the matter of that, could turn such wheel carriages, and getting into the rear, play the very
devil
with them, horse and all."
"We whipped the redcoats here the other day, among the grass on the Chippewa plains," said the one who was called Mason; "since when, we have been playing hide and go seek with the ships: but we are now marching back from where we started, shaking our heads, and as surly as the devil."
But say--how do you cure 'em with dead cats?""Why, you take your cat and go and get in the grave-yard 'long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a
devil
will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see 'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear 'em talk; and when they're taking that feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say,
'Devil
follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!'That'll fetch _any_ wart."
you devil!" and the crash of an empty bottle against the back of his aunt's woodshed brought him wide awake, and a single minute later he was dressed and out of the window and creeping along the roof of the "ell" on all fours.
That Injun
devil
wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats, if we was to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him.
Injun Joe repeated his statement, just as calmly, a few minutes afterward on the inquest, under oath; and the boys, seeing that the lightnings were still withheld, were confirmed in their belief that Joe had sold himself to the
devil.
Why, if I wanted that halfbreed
devil
to drownd me they could get me to tell.
I've had dreams enough all night--with that patch-eyed Spanish
devil
going for me all through 'em--rot him!""No, not rot him.
One was a-smoking, and t'other one wanted a light; so they stopped right before me and the cigars lit up their faces and I see that the big one was the deaf and dumb Spaniard, by his white whiskers and the patch on his eye, and t'other one was a rusty, ragged-looking devil."
Well, it was this business of the burglar that drew his attention to me; for he patted me on my head, and said that I was a spunky little devil, which blew me out with pride for a week on end.
"Why, Jim!" said I.But he looked at me in the way that I had often seen at school when the
devil
was strong in him, and when he knew that he was in the wrong, and yet set his will to brazen it out.
Poor devil, how could he help it?
She loves you at West Inch, and she loves me on the braeside; and in her
devil'
s heart she cares a whin-blossom for neither of us.
"Well, then, the
devil
take you, and you may do what you like!" he cried, in one of his sudden flushes of anger.
His eyes were bent upon me, and I saw the
devil'
s spark glimmer up in the depths of them.
The
devil'
s music went on till evening, sometimes rising into a roar, sometimes sinking into a grumble, until about eight o'clock in the evening it stopped altogether.
This de Lapp or de Lissac, or whatever his
devil'
s name is.
Then first I knew what a
devil'
s thrill runs through a man when he is given a bit of fighting to do.
When that
devil'
s roar burst upon our ears there was not a man, down to the drummer boys, who did not understand what it meant.
But as the
devil
is an unwearied tempter, so he never fails to find opportunity for that wickedness he invites to.
I told him that those unhappy distresses which first moved him to a generous and an honest friendship for me, would, I hope, move him to a little concern for me now, though the criminal part of our correspondence, which I believed neither of us intended to fall into at the time, was broken off; that I desired to repent as sincerely as he had done, but entreated him to put me in some condition that I might not be exposed to the temptations which the
devil
never fails to excite us to from the frightful prospect of poverty and distress; and if he had the least apprehensions of my being troublesome to him, I begged he would put me in a posture to go back to my mother in Virginia, from when he knew I came, and that would put an end to all his fears on that account.
'For, to be plain, my dear, I have no estate,' says he; 'what little I had, this
devil
has made me run out in waiting on you and putting me into this equipage.'
Sometimes my imagination formed an idea of one frightful thing, sometimes of another; sometime I thought he had discovered me, and was come to upbraid me with ingratitude and breach of honour; and every moment I fancied he was coming up the stairs to insult me; and innumerable fancies came into my head of what was never in his head, nor ever could be, unless the
devil
had revealed it to him.
I am very sure I had no manner of design in my head when I went out; I neither knew nor considered where to go, or on what business; but as the
devil
carried me out and laid his bait for me, so he brought me, to be sure, to the place, for I knew not whither I was going or what I did.
This was the bait; and the devil, who I said laid the snare, as readily prompted me as if he had spoke, for I remember, and shall never forget it, 'twas like a voice spoken to me over my shoulder, 'Take the bundle; be quick; do it this moment.'
I went out now by daylight, and wandered about I knew not whither, and in search of I knew not what, when the
devil
put a snare in my way of a dreadful nature indeed, and such a one as I have never had before or since.
Going through Aldersgate Street, there was a pretty little child who had been at a dancing-school, and was going home, all alone; and my prompter, like a true devil, set me upon this innocent creature.
Here, I say, the
devil
put me upon killing the child in the dark alley, that it might not cry, but the very thought frighted me so that I was ready to drop down; but I turned the child about and bade it go back again, for that was not its way home.
I had a great many adventures after this, but I was young in the business, and did not know how to manage, otherwise than as the
devil
put things into my head; and indeed he was seldom backward to me.
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