diablerie

Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak.

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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.

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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.

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Well," said Theodore, "what think you of Lothair's pretty little specimen of diablerie?

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann

She had a habit of screwing up her small gray-green eyes into two glimmering little slits of light, with an effect of shyness showing through amusement and diablerie.

From The High Heart by Basil King

By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'.

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He cannot be unreal—the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic diableries as of his most everyday studies of society; is unsurpassed.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

These old countries are full of romances and legends and diableries of all sorts, in which truth and lies are so mixed that one does not know what to believe.

From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I want it to be pleasant and gay, and to throw myself en garçon on the festive diableries de Paris.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth

There is one more diabolical picture in our budget, engraved by Mr. Thompson, the same dexterous artist who has rendered the former diableries so well.

From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray