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Updated: June 12, 2025
As for Eastern Christianity, bedizened with the gewgaws of paganism and bedevilled by the maddening theological speculations of the decadent Greek mind, it had become a repellent caricature of the teachings of Christ. Both Magism and Byzantine Christendom were riven by great heresies which engendered savage persecutions and furious hates.
Only see how he has bedevilled and dirtied my room; pretty work, indeed, when I have had colonels for lodgers seven years together, and Anna Petròvna Buchmìsteroff! Truly there are no worse lodgers than artists; they turn a drawing-room into a pigstye."
The mother assented eagerly, then said, with a smile: "But I gather you don't find him much to be depended on in the House?" Fontenoy shrugged his shoulders. "Lady Maxwell has bedevilled him somehow. You're responsible!" "Poor Castle Luton! You must tell me how it and I can make up. But you don't mean that there is any thought of his going over?" "His vote's all safe I suppose.
I looked over his shoulder, in wild horrer at them awful words, and then I whispered, "Devilled crabs and do you keep still, Josiah Allen; I'd ruther not have anythin' to eat at all than to have you act so it hain't devilish." "Wall, what is the difference?" he sez, out loud and strong; "devilish or bedevilled, they both mean the same.
"I shall have these fat fellows hanging up by the heels, heads downward, pretty soon, I tell you!" "O cruel Silas, what a horrible idea!" cried I. "All the rest of us, men, women, and livestock, save only these four porkers, are bedevilled with one grief or another; they alone are happy, and you mean to cut their throats and eat them!
Seeing him on his way, thus terribly armed, and knowing his intent, Venus, to shield a former favourite servant of Mars, conjured the most diverting of interventions, in the shape of a young woman in a poke- bonnet, and Skepsey, her squire, marching with a dozen or so, informing bedevilled mankind of the hideousness of our hymnification when it is not under secluding sanction of the Edifice, and challengeing criticism; and that was hard by, and real English, in the form of bludgeons, wielded by a battalion of the national idol Bungay Beervat's boys; and they fell upon the hymners.
'I assume, he said, 'the fellow knew I was coming? 'He saw it in my handwriting of yesterday, replied my father. 'But be just to him, acknowledge that he is one of the few that perform their daily duties with a tender conscience. 'This English climate has bedevilled the fellow! He peppers his dishes like a mongrel Indian reared on mangoes. 'Ring him up, ring him up, Jorian.
Baranof wrote to Siberia for instructions, urging the amalgamation of all the companies in one; but instructions were so long in coming that the fur trade was being utterly bedevilled and the passions of the savages inflamed to a point of danger for every white man on the North Pacific.
Fairies of a malignant humour in former days used to punish the unhappiest of the naughty men who were not favourites, by suddenly planting a hump on their backs. Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider. Marriage is our incubus now.
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