diablerie
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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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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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His best effects are achieved in sudden striking images which seem to have in them a depth of fantastic diablerie worthy of the wreck-strewn "humming waters" whose secrets he loved to penetrate.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
Her face took on that fascinating diablerie which men found irresistible.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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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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 Benton, Thomas H.
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 Frye, Major W. E
There is one more diabolical picture in our budget, engraved by Mr. Thompson, the same dexterous artist who has rendered the former diableries so well.
From George Cruikshank by Thackeray, William Makepeace
He cannot be unreal—the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic diableries as of his most everyday studies of society; is unsurpassed.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
