Fanatics of despair turned hopeful eyes to Russia where a devilment was brewing which, should it overboil, would pour destruction across five continents.
As a last humanizing touch, there was a hint of cavalierdevilment about him, of the gambler who was also a sportsman.
They called him the Nestor of the Irish turf, and he did deeds of daring and devilment in every corner of the world.
He's up to some devilment or other, she just knows.
I knew it," he said; "I knew when those fellows took the trouble to speak to our boys on the sly that there was some devilment afoot, but I thought they had missed their chance of playing some spiteful trick on us and had gone back.
Very probably he was stationed somewhere in the vicinity, for loud appeals had been made for regular cavalry ever since the year previous, when the Ku-Klux began their devilment in the neighborhood.
The frightened girl, with a devilment which belongs to all who may hold a whip-hand for a moment, lost her temporary sense of dismay and answered boldly: "What do you want?
He was plundering the enemy, less for his personal profit than from the spirit of sheer devilment and adventure.
The doctor seemed perfectly contented with the arrangement; and as he bade Murphy "good night," a lurking devilment hung about his huge mouth.
I had plenty o' devilment in me, but I quit all my devilment when I was ma'ied.
Ain't nobody gwine to be brash 'nough to do nodevilment 'round a Jedges place.
He and all the rest of the neurologists have divided up devilment into provinces, and labelled each province with names all ending in enia or itis.
To take to Europe and show to men that they may see the devilment of this place, and the work of Satan that is being carried out here.
When a man's half drunk he's fit for any devilment that comes before him.
He was like a boy home from school sometimes--mad for any kind of fun with a spice of devilment in it.
He certainly was wonderful clever in all sorts of ways when there was any devilment to be carried out.
When Martha shouted, "What devilmentare you up to now?
I can't just understand how Alfred got hurt so badly; it seems like a visitation of Providence; you know Alfred has been so forward in his devilment with other folks.
That was your great forte, freezing your friends out of asking questions where your privatedevilment was concerned.
I'd as soon try to love a hissing rattlesnake, standing coiled in my path, as such a dried-up bundle of devilment as you are.
This Jess Campbell and Joe Dean was full of devilment and they knew Monroe was awful scarey.
They divided the county into precints and the devilmentwas done in the precints, just like it is now.
It is believed that he is now in hiding somewhere about the suburbs, and that an innate propensity for devilment will speedily betray him to the clutches of the law.
Those dratted little rats were all over camp last night, and into more kinds of devilment than so many pet crows.
They're fuller o' devilmentthan a dog is of fleas.
You know, de nigger gits de devilmentin de head, like folks do, sometimes, and de marster have to larn 'em better.
De Ku Klux made a lot of devilment round-about dat county.
I cried, half angry and yet wholly delighted; "what of marvel or devilment is there in picking up a hat and coat one has found lying under a tree?
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