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"And I am very sorry I have not an amiable worldling for my sister, instead of an unamiable and devilish conceited Christian." And with these bitter words, Alfred snatched a candle and bounced to bed in a fury. So apt is one passion to rouse up others.
"'Permit me also to bring to your intelligence the battles at Fort Meigs and at the river Raisin. American prisoners were there given by English officers to their Indian allies for torture and death. The English war cry at Sandusky was, "Give the d Yankees no quarter." "'Sir, permit me to say, that you read history to a devilish purpose, if you read it to search after brutal precedents.
Downstairs, alone in the abandoned dining-room, Beatrix still sat at the disordered table, with her head bowed forward upon her clasped hands. "It's a devilish mess, do what you will," Bobby said grimly, the next morning. "The punishment seems a good deal out of proportion to the cause," Thayer replied briefly. "Hh!" Bobby grunted. "I think he did well to get off without a genuine case of D. T."
"I never saw a Jacobite in so good a coat, and I never thought Geoffrey would risk his coat for any king. And thirdly and lastly, I never knew Whitehall put itself out in these days whether a man was Jacobite or no. Why, damme, they be all half Jacobites themselves, from the Queen down." "Aye, aye," says Sir John sagely. "A devilish queer thing indeed."
Mutely motioning to his followers, Valentin contrived to creep up behind the big branching tree, and, standing there in deathly silence, heard the words of the strange priests for the first time. After he had listened for a minute and a half, he was gripped by a devilish doubt.
The Dutch were accused of the "devilish project" of trying to rouse the savages to a simultaneous assault upon all the New England colonists. The crime was to be perpetrated on Sunday morning, when they should be collected in their houses of worship. Men, women and children were to be massacred, and the buildings laid in ashes.
“But I—I didn’t like the idea, you see; and so—in fact—Welsh suggested that I should take him instead.” “While you locked me up in Clankwood?” “Yes.” “Ha, ha, ha!” laughed Mr Bunker, “I must say it was a devilish humorous idea.” At this Twiddel began to take heart again. “I am very sorry, sir, for——” he began, when the Baron interrupted excitedly. “Zen vat is your name, Bonker?”
The wind in devilish playfulness would here tear off a shred of canvas, there a yard, and there a mast or a tiller, till a rudderless craft, caught abeam by a mountain of greenish water, would seem surely to be swallowed up. Some of the boats got in.
"There is," replied Antoine, holding out his glass. Montbar filled it as scrupulously full as he had the first three. "Well," said the postilion, holding the ruby liquid to the light and admiring its sparkle, "as I was saying, we drank to the health of the beautiful Josephine " "Yes," said Montbar. "But," said Antoine, "there are a devilish lot of Josephines in France." "True.
All educated men were persecuted," he states a month after Thermidor 9; "to have acquaintances, to be literary, sufficed for arrest, as an aristocrat.... Robespierre... with devilish ingenuity, abused, calumniated and overwhelmed with gall and bitterness all who were devoted to serious studies, all who professed extensive knowledge;... he felt that cultivated men would never bend the knee to him ..... Instruction was paralyzed; they wanted to burn the libraries..... Must I tell you that at the very door of your assembly errors in orthography are seen?
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