diablerie
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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.
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The irreverent persiflage of the Vision belongs to the now obsolete school of Voltaire, and in biting wit and daring ridicule the performance is not unworthy of that supreme master in diablerie.
From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller
These Germans gave implicit belief to stories of diablerie and witchcraft, and hoped to be relieved from their sufferings by becoming warlocks.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
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'.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a strange wild piece, quite in the German style and full of horrors and diableries.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
What if no more are the grisettes of Paul de Kock and Murger to fascinate the eye with wistful diableries?
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
I perceive that many amateur American Al-Raschids are abroad in the land, pockets echoing the tintinnabulation of manifold marks and eyes abulge at the prospect of midnight diableries.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
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
