Bedevilments definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Only it was noted that the Abbot changed his sleeping-chamber, after which, except for a sickness which struck the monks--it was thought from the drinking of sour beer--these bedevilments were abated Indeed, at that time men had other things to think of, since the air was thick with rumours of impending change.

—The Lady of Blossholme

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These, to me, were like the bedevilments of those dreams from which we groan to awake, but cannot. — London River
"Those are his temporary premises That is where he does his bedevilments, I suppose?" — John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
SHAKSPEARE FILTHY WATER If the unhappy victims of mud-juice had constant access to the solar microscope, and there was occasionally in London a little sunshine to set off the animated bedevilments which are crowded into the composition, and could see thousands of animals, generated in filth, and living in the highest spirits and the greatest abundance, in the stuff destined for their stomachs, they would go mad. — The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828
Only it was noted that the Abbot changed his sleeping-chamber, after which, except for a sickness which struck the monks--it was thought from the drinking of sour beer--these bedevilments were abated Indeed, at that time men had other things to think of, since the air was thick with rumours of impending change. — The Lady of Blossholme
They tell me that the fair and its bedevilments have pretty well been knocked on the head. — Old Jack