beelzebubs

Updated: June 3, 2025

His old troopers, the Satans and Beelzebubs who had shared his crimes, and who now shared his perils, were ready to be the companions of his flight. Meanwhile the Convention had assembled.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

Hereby Paul Buys, Barneveld, and divers others, who were before mantled with a tolerable affection, though seasoned with a poisoned intention, caught the occasion, and made themselves the Beelzebubs of all these mischiefs, and, for want of better angels, spared not to let fly our golden-winged ones in the name of guilders, to prepare the hearts and hands that hold money more dearer than honesty, of which sort, the country troubles and the Spanish practices having suckled up many, they found enough to serve their purpose.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete