Magda made no answer, but she stood looking at him with an odd, unchildlike deviltry in her sombre eyes.
Black MacQueen would go the limit in deviltry if he set his mind to it.
And from the cliff above came the answer--a laugh full of mocking deviltry and malice.
He wondered if they kept Glory up--or if he was rustling on the range, his sorrel back humped to the storms and the deviltry gone out of him with the grim battle for mere life.
Any man but Weary would have ruined the horse with harshness, but Weary was really proud of his deviltry and would laugh till the tears came while he told of some new and undreamed bit of cussedness in his pet.
The workers were silent and busy, but largely interspersed among them were the demi-mondaines and the singing and dancing students of the Quartier, all as full of life and deviltry as ever.
The students gather about and watch the proceedings with great interest, and make whatever remarks their deviltry can suggest.
Professor Kennedy," he whispered, "there is some deviltry afoot.
There is some deviltry afoot, and apparently no one is safe.
There's some deviltry afoot and Beechy knows what it is.
The mesh of the outlaw's deviltry was strong; her flutterings were feeble, futile.
Plutina, sick with the treacherous deviltry of the device, heard the grunt of satisfaction with which Hodges contemplated his finished work.
When any deviltry is on foot they are never there to prevent it--they vanish into thin air at its approach.
Ef there ain't much competition for his services and the time is a long one, he'll have his own stubbornness an' deviltry to thank for it.
No; it is not the reckless dare deviltry of the Negro that terrorizes the South, but the conscience of the white man whose wrong treatment of a defenseless people fills him with fear and intensifies his hatred.
Some were washing faces, others sipping coffee as a forerunner of something hotter that would stimulate and give force to the spirit of deviltry that the work of the day required.
My dear boy, you could no more shed yourself than you could that desire for a fancy vest and the moonstone pin that you wore in a deviltry of revolt against the idea that moonstones were unlucky.
What deviltry is behind all this talk, Mr. Donnegan?
She caught her breath and then a spark of deviltry gleamed.
There is a deviltry here that must be sifted to the bottom.
The Mexicans were still; whateverdeviltry they were up to, it was being carried on now in silence; the only sound was a muffled scraping.
I don't put no sorter deviltry beyond him, yer understand, but I don't quite see how he ever come to get mixed up in this yere New York mess.
This trip is going to be a tough one, and I'm certain there is some deviltry afoot.
It was well, too, that she did, for more from deviltry than fear of the gray shadow the ponies just then bolted.
But if his condition was perfectly natural, so also was the innate deviltry that caused the ponies to bolt the trail and plunge over the aforesaid bank.
Straightway it gave me a terrific blast, claiming that mining was only a cloak for a new piece of deviltry I was hatching.
There was a cool deviltry in the slanting gaze with which she surveyed the other woman.
What deviltry were you up to last night to get kicked this morning?
There's deviltry in this business, somewhere," said Ichabod.
You'll find that they're plotting some deviltrywhich we shall know about before we are many hours older.
Now Eagle's-Wing, that sarpent has come here to practise some deviltry on us.
Compromise with chronic perpetrators of evil deeds done out of evil intent, through loading them with largesse, and they are furnished with the last formula for piling deviltry on deviltry.
She found it difficult to link the scene before her with the deviltry of a few months past.
But now they'll work their deviltry all the stronger against the Three Bar," she predicted.
She felt sure that the stranger was safe from bodily harm for the night at least, now that Dennis had shaken off the first blind deviltry of his rage.
She felt no fear for herself, but a chilling anxiety as to what deviltry Denny might be up to now.
Many were closing their annals of error in decrepitude and beggary; others were well-knit studies of evil, with health still hanging on, more or less, and much deviltry to do.
The China Sea can generate much deviltryto a square mile.
It was a bit of deviltry that wouldn't stand scrutiny.
What fresh deviltry was the desperate gambler engaged upon?
He was full of subtle deviltry this night, with an undercurrent of malice toward every one and himself in particular.
And the spirit of deviltry lay also upon her heart.
