In dare-devilry of every sort he out-Heroded Herod, and distanced any who were mad enough to try the pace with him in that steeple-chase commonly called "going to the bad.
We're a great deal too like one another, too full of devilry and carelessness, to assimilate.
As Phips and Bucklaw went below, a sudden devilry entered into him.
What devilrysoever kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper.
Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi=--Whatsoever devilrykings do, the Greeks must pay the piper.
The greyhound, I think, would have been a harmless creature, but the terriers possessed a full share of the devilry of their breed, and urged him to accompany them in all their audacious tricks.
There was no limit to the mischievous devilry of that pony.
For, as a picture of the happiest man, every nobleman had in his mind the cheeky audacity and devilry of the tyrant who sacrifices everything and every one to his own exuberance and pleasure.
If they could understand what we are saying now, they would think that you wanted the kid's body for some devilry or witchcraft business, and we should as like as not get left by them.
My body was whole then, and my heart hot; and for devilry I lied to you.
Wayne looked hard at her, doubtful still and bewildered by the heedless devilry of her plan.
She had spoken a true word that day, and they had met Wayne; but there was some devilry hid under it, and haply she knew enough of the Black Art which had saved her lover to be sure no harm could come to him.
His fellows drew back a little for a moment; the cool, stark devilry of the plot shamed even them, who had dwelt with the Lean Man and never hitherto found cause to blush.
But believe me the cholic will not delay coming, and it will require skill to empty the body of the devilry again.
Down below every corner of the harbour was being searched by the lights of the ships, for Schmidt was still at large, and there was no knowing what devilry he might devise.
Edward and I were still leaning out of the open window in our nightshirts, watching the play of the cedar-branch shadows on the moonlit lawn, and planning schemes of fresh devilry for the sunshiny morrow.
I suspected Jerry from the first; there was a latent devilry in his slant eyes as he sat there moodily, and knowing what he was capable of I scented trouble in store for Charlotte.
A handsomer figure it would be hard to see; and I hated him for it, and wondered what new devilrywas in his mind.
I could see in the mirror facing him the provoking devilry of his eyes.
If it is simply a matter of meeting force by force, devilry by devilry then there is not much to choose between us.
Germany's materialism, Germany's atheism, German devilry has been our salvation as a nation.
If we don't win in this war, German devilry will rule the world, and shall the country allow the Trade, as it calls itself, to batten upon the vitals of the nation?
Pure devilry possessed him; he could not rest without some attempt at retaliation.
Siyah Yamin closed the door with a bang, burst into a perfect cascade of laughter, and then, out of sheer delight and devilry pirouetted and postured down the central walk singing as she danced a ghazal from Hafiz: Love!
Akbar who had been giving Bijli the rein in reckless devilryuttered a sharp cry as he recognised Salim.
There is no devilry to the Hindu in being the outcome of many incarnations.
Wrapped in her white burka, all one could see of the devilry within, was two eyes brimming over with malignant mischief.
Sitting astride the log, his elbows on his knees and his gloved hands supporting his round cheeks, the boy's handsome face became illuminated with an impish devilry which the father had never seen before.
Perhaps there was an extra tilt to his black-ribboned Panama hat, and a certain dancing devilry in his brown eyes--which might also have been an answer to adverse criticism.
Then he came crouching and quivering across the floor slowly, a gleaming devilry in the eyes that devoured his son.
Gourlay's face appeared at the jagged rent, his eyes narrowed to fiercely gleaming points, a hard, triumphant devilry playing round his black lips.
Devilry without doubt," said Amalric, with an emphatic gesture.
It was the chance for the Wild Birds, and I used to wake in a sweat to think what devilry Ivery might be engineering.
Every finished subtle devilrythat the Boche has wrought among the Allies since August 1914 has been the work of the Wild Birds and more or less organized by Ivery.
It is the opinion of some men that this beast was the mother of King Siggeir, and that she had taken this form upon her through devilry and witchcraft.
I am only a man, and who knows what subtle devilry those brutes might not devise for bringing the untamed adventurer to his knees.
He was thinking of that day when he had fooled Heron and Chauvelin into the belief that their devilry had succeeded, and that they had brought the reckless adventurer to his knees.
It was not out when I left the gates of Paris," said Blakeney meditatively; "so quietly has the news of the escape been kept, that I am wondering what devilry that brute Heron can be after.
They thought that my tears would break your spirit where their devilry had failed.
The pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.
Of these I am weary this day, and so I inflict myself on the dragoon," and here she bowed very low and gracefully to the ploughman, and there was a little devilry in her black eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devilry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
