The deuill himselfe is not such a deuill as he, so be he performe his function aright.
Detestable, detestable, that the flesh and the deuill shoulde deale by their factors.
Aie me, it is the spoyl of my honor thou seekest in my soules troubled departure, thou art some deuill sent to tempt me.
A plague vpon Queene Mab, quoth hee, And all her Maydes where ere they be, I thinke theDeuill guided me, To seeke her so prouoked.
In Suffolk in 1645 'one Bush of Barton widdow confessed that the Deuill appeared to her in the shape of a young black man .
Eftir quhilk, be thair sorcerie and inchantment, the boit perischit betuix Leith and Kinghorne; quhilk thing the Deuill did, and went befoir, with ane stalf in his hand.
The same accusation was made against Marion Grant of Aberdeen, 1596, that 'the Deuill quhome thow callis thy god .
The twelue labors of Hercules haue I terribly thundred on the stage, and placed three scenes of the deuill on the highway to heauen.
O Lewis, stand fast, the deuill tempts thee heere In likenesse of a new vntrimmed Bride Bla.
Now by my life, this day grows wondrous hot, Some ayery Deuill houers in the skie, And pour's downe mischiefe.
My bed was euer to thy sonne as true As thine was to thy husband, and this boy Liker in feature to his father Geffrey Then thou and Iohn, in manners being as like, As raine to water, or deuill to his damme; My boy a bastard?
And they made vs by signes to vnderstand, lying groueling with their faces vpon the ground, and making a noise downeward, that they worship the deuill vnder them.
Into this pit the deuill was wont to leape and to take with him his worshipper whom he there murdred.
Wherefore his sonne followed him priuily into that denne with his bow and arrows, where the deuill gallantly appeared vnto him in the shape of a man.
They set before them a child whom the deuill inuadeth, called vp thither by charmes: of that child then doe they aske that which they are desirous to know.
Who so was more desirous than other to go to heauen and to enioy Paradise, thither went he to see that sight, and hauing seene the deuill followed him (so by the deuill persuaded) into a denne vntil he came to a deepe pit.
Well neere 200 Bonzii folow him singing the name of that deuill the which the partie deceassed chiefly did worship in his life time, and therewithall a very great bason is beaten euen to the place of fire instead of a bell.
This olde manne his sonne tracking the Foxe so running away, came to that pit whereof I spake, and in the bottome thereof he found many bones of dead men, deceiued by the deuill after that sort in time past.
The deuill was wont also in another mountaine to shew himselfe vnto the Iapanish Nation.
This Deuillhere shall be my substitute; For that Iohn Mortimer, which now is dead, In face, in gate, in speech he doth resemble.
The Deuillpull out both thine eies, And etish[*] in the holes likewise.
He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had bene on hym ready to laye me on the bones.
What power they haue to harme the Magistrate, and vpon what respectes they haue any power in prison: And to what end may or will the Deuill appeare to them therein.
And with that (as he sayde) the deuill brake the white wande, and immediatly vanished foorth of his sight.
What more is the reste troubled of a dead bodie, when the Deuill carryes it out of the Graue to serue his turne for a space, nor when the Witches takes it vp and joyntes it, or when as Swine wortes vppe the graues?
Two principall thinges cannot well in that errand be wanted: holie-water (whereby the Deuill mockes the Papistes) and some present of a liuing thing vnto him.
Because where the Deuill findes greatest ignorance and barbaritie, there assayles he grosseliest, as I gaue you the reason wherefore there was moe Witches of women kinde nor men.
The Deuill haunt the Constable's ghoast If we rob but a Booth, we are whip'd at a poast.
How long shee hath been a Witch, theDeuill and shee knows best.
For which opertunitie and advantage, the deuill watching; and noe doubt compasing, he then recouered her, and now dwelleth there: whose last estat with Katherine Wrights and Will.
The Deuill did speake unto Eua out of the Serpent.
Hee tried twice or thrice afterwards to goe to the house, but in the same place where he was staied at first, he was still staied: Belike, the Deuill stood there Centinell, kept his station well.
Shee saw there was one which had deceiued hir, shee nameth him a serpent; whence had she that name for the deuill whome shee had not imagined to bee?
The whoreson clouen-foote deuill in mans apparell lyes, There stood aboue forty dishes before me to day, That I nere toucht, because they were empty.
But since the Deuill brought them thus together, To my discovrsing[19] thoughts it is a wonder, Why presently as soone as they came thither, The selfe same deuill did them part asunder.
Disborough] I asked her how she knew yt it was ye deuill that appeared in ye shape of these three women she answered he tould me so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deuill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
