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

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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 world was speedily full of romances of his recklessness, his intrigues, his diablerie, and his munificence.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

It is very clever and very entertaining—replete with pleasantry and humour: quite as imaginative as any German diablerie, and far more amusing than most productions of its class.

From A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. by Davy Crockett

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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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

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 Thomas H. Benton

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 George Saintsbury

How beautiful are the scenes, about to follow, depicted in the overtures to Der Freyschutz and Oberon; what wild diableries are not suggested by those wonderful compositions!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various