Thesaurus / diablerie

diablerie

How to use diablerie in a sentence

"You may be an enchantress, mistress, but the spell you cast is not diablerie," he answered in the same tone.

UNDER THE ROSEFREDERIC STEWART ISHAM

A spark of the morning's diablerie flashes into the bright eyes again.

She had a look of diablerie older than the history of woman.

UNDER THE LAWEDWINA STANTON BABCOCK

Again, as in the case of the element of diablerie, it would be possible to make technical exceptions in favour of Pickwick.

They possessed, though, a certain vivacity and diablerie that the big, slower-witted Swede girls lacked.

Her face took on that fascinating diablerie which men found irresistible.

His interview with the witch has some resemblance to modern diablerie in the circumstances.

Glanvil traces the steps by which a well-meaning student may unwarily be involved in diablerie.

Twilight was beginning to add to its suggestions of diablerie, and the whole land to seem more and more the abode of devils.

PIECES OF EIGHTRICHARD LE GALLIENNE

In our next cut, No. 161, we give a second example of the figures in Callots peculiar diablerie.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985