diablerie

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

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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 George Saintsbury

I am very fond of fighting in novels; and of diablerie even "more than reason"; and of the Middle Ages; and of many other things connected with the work.

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

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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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

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 Major W. E Frye

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

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