The devill desires no better sport then to see light heads handle their heels, and fetch their carreers in a time, when the Roofe of Liberty stands open.
Feare nothing Gentlemen, Rubiconem transiistis, jacta est alea, ye have turned the Devill out of doores; fling all his old parrell after him out at the windows, lest he makes an errand for it againe.
There is a set of Bishops comming next behind, Will ride the devill off his legs, and break his wind.
I am perswaded theDevill himselfe was never willing with their proceedings, for feare it would breake his wind and wits to attend such a Province.
The wisest way, when all is said, is with all humility and feare, to take Christ as himselfe hath revealed himselfe in his Gospel, and not as the Devill presents him to prestigiated phansies.
Upon the dumbe devill cast out, and the slanderous Jewes put to silence.
Two devills at one blow Thou hast laid flat; A speaking devill this, a dumbe one that.
The Merry Devillof Edmonton' and the 'History of Cardenio,' a share in which was assigned to Fletcher.
He happened to dye on Christmas day: the newes being brought to the serjeant, said he 'The devill haz a Christmas pye.
Truly quoth the small-coale man, I can tell you but very little news from Hell, only the Devill wants a Chaplaine, and you ride but a little faster you may perchance have the place.
On the cut itself are printed the lines:-- 'Time now at the last pours out much knavery, The Devill holds down fast to hinder the discovery.
But that the Devill inticed them Such wicked woorks to render; For which these seven did suffer death, The twentith of September.
Or who would think such hidden hate In men so fair in sight, But that theDevill can turne him selfe Into an angell bright.
The mayster devill with his longe pawes Here to the can not reache.
The Devill he burst both Gib and Tib, with al the rest!
Thyselfe a while but staye, The devill (I smell hym) will be here anone.
Sweare me no swearing, quean, the devill he geve the sorow!
Sd Halliberch answered her yt it was ye devill her answer was she did beleue it was and allso yt she sed to it in ye name of ye Father Son and Holy Gost also sd Halliberch saith yt sd Mercy sd that her soul was damd for yesterdays worke.
Although casting into ye water is by some justified for ye witch having made a ct wth ye devill she hath renounced her baptm & hence ye antipathy between her & water, but this he makes nothing off.
And ye reasons why ye devill would discover y is 1 his malice towards all men 2 his insatiable desire to have ye witches not sure enough of y till yn.
If ye pty suspected have ye devills mark for t'is thought wn ye devill maketh his covent with y he alwayess leaves his mark behind him to know y for his owne yt is, if noe evident reason in can be given for such mark.
Another time she was saying she had some thoughts, what if the Devill should come to sucke her, and she resolued he should not sucke her.
Argumts to prove either must be as 1 if they can pve ye pty hath invocated ye devill for his help this pt of yt ye devill binds withes to.
The reason is because, this would utterly evacuate all human testimony; no man could testify, that he saw this pson do this or that thing, for it might be said, that it was ye devill in his shape.
Time asking her who told, she answered plainly she would not tell, then Time said did not ye Devill tell you.
Anothr insufficient testimoy of a witch is ye testimony of a wizard, who prtends to show ye face of ye witch to ye party afflicted in a glass, but this he counts diabolicall & dangerous, ye devill may reprsent a pson inocent.
Or 2 the testimony of 2 witnesses of good and honest report avouching things in theire knowledge before ye magistrat 1 wither yt ye party accused hath made a league wth ye devill or 2d or hath ben some knowne practices of witchcraft.
Item that about a moneth therafter in the night as she went out of her own back dore she met with the devill and spok with him.
Jonet Morisoune declares the devill told her it was the fayries that took John Glas child's lyfe.
Part of the dittay against Jonet Rendall, an Orkney witch, 1629, was that 'the devill appeirit to you, Quhom ye called Walliman.
One day as shee was alone in a lower roome she looked out of ye window, and saw ye devill in ye habit of an old man, coming over a great meadow.
And saith, yt after a solicitation or two shee contracted and covenanted with ye saiddevill for her soule.
And theire devill or spirit gives them notice of theire meetinge, and tells them the place where it must bee.
And yt ye said devillor spirit badde her call him by the name of Mamilian.
And sayth, yt such witches as have sharp bones given them by the devill to pricke them, have no pappes or dugges whereon theire devill may sucke, but theire devill receiveth bloud from the place, pricked with the bone.
Shee alsoe saith, yt ye devill (after he begins to sucke) will make a pappe or dugge in a short tyme, and the matter which hee sucks is blood.
And yt besides theire particular familiars or spirits, there was one greate or grand devill or spirit more eminent than the rest.
Shee alsoe saith yt when her devill did come to sucke her pappe, hee usually came to her in ye liknes of a cat, sometymes of one colour and sometymes of an other.
Good, still, nay then I see the devill has some power over a woman more then a man.
To see howe redy still the devill is To helpe his servants!
Wants she but ritch attire or costly dyet, With her the Devill can nere live in quiet.
No devill so fierce as a bread-wanting heart, Especially being baited with ill tearmes.
What devill made you sweare to chastitie, Or have you tane that oath onely for a terme?
Love, any devill else but you, Would for a given Soule give something too.
For as it is hard to say, that the Devill was entred into Judas, before he had any such hostile designe; so it is impertinent to say, he was first Christs Enemy in his heart, and that the Devill entred into him afterwards.
Then said Maister Bleiter,[414] chaplen, that he had theDevill within him, and the spreit of errour.
Butt this fredome to sched innocent blood gatt never the Devill but in the kingdome of Antichrist, "that the innocent should dye, and neyther knaw accusatour nor yitt the witnesses that testifeid against him.
And as God did potentlie wirk with his trew Minister, and with his trubillit Kirk, so did nocht the Devill cease to enflamb the malice of the Quene, and of the Papistis with hir.
The Devill keapt fast the grippe that he gatt, yea, evin all the dayis of his governement.
Last of all, your Lordschip please to considder, how desyrous some ar to have sedition amongis freindis; how mychtie the Devill is to saw discord; how that mony wald desyre na better game but to hunt us at uther.
But thei will call yow to your compt booke, and that is to the Bible; and by it ye will no more be found the men that ye ar called, then the Devill wilbe approvin to be God.
The certantie that a dowghter was borne unto him cuming to his earis, he turned from such as spak with him, and said, "The devill go with it!
His ansuer was, "The mekill devill bear thame away, that first and last said thame.
And unyversally all their company saye playnly, the devill was that nyght among theym vi tymys; whiche mysfortune hath blemyshed the best journey that was made in Scotland many yeres.
War I thair lyftit with my lyfe, The devillsowld styk me with a knyffe, An' ever I cum agane in Fyfe, Till I were deid.
But will God permit these wicked instruments, by the power of the devill their master, to trouble by any of these meanes any that beleeve in him?
At which time the witches demaunded of the devill why he did beare such hatred to the Kinge?
But strange to thinke, for all this solemn meeknesse, At length the Devill appeared in his likenesse, While these deceits did but supply the wants Of broken unthrifts, and of thread-bare Saints.
And coniure wisely, too; thedevill will faile else.
Now if the devill had but this Leidenberge I were safe enough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
