diablerie

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

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

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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 Cynthia Stockley

She had a habit of screwing up her small gray-green eyes into two glimmering little slits of light, with an effect of shyness showing through amusement and diablerie.

From The High Heart by Basil King

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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But in spite of his temper and his diableries he was very lovable and everybody liked him.

From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

During their sojourn within college walls, the rumours of diableries, of which his younger son had been the hero, were scarce compensated by the reports of scholastic triumphs on the part of the elder.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

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 William Collins

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