diablerie

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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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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This "Black Doctor" is not a trout-fly, nor the sort of person who might be expected in a story of diablerie.

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

She's pale, but she glows like a rose: she has chaste eyes, but there is diablerie in the turn of her lip.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia

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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How beautiful are the scenes, about to follow, depicted in the overtures to Der Freyschutz and Oberon; what wild diableries are not suggested by those wonderful compositions!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

Milton was notoriously fond of high romance and gothic diableries; and Collins, who in genius and enthusiasm bore no very distant resemblance to Milton, was wholly carried away by the same attachments.

From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William

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 Hogarth, Georgina

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace