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