diablerie

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

La Femme Immortelle, with its diablerie explained and then dis-explained and then clumsily solved with a laugh, makes one wish for an hour or two even of Soulié.

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

He led the conversation in that direction, and very soon the Bishop, Brown, and himself were engaged in the discussion of diablerie.

From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)