devilries

Ramus his logic, and Plato his dialectical devilries, to confess himself a Manichee, and, for aught he knew, a turbaned Turk, or

Westward Ho! 2007

The air was as clear and fresh as on a mountain side; sparrows chattered, and birds of a species unsuspected at later hours could be heard singing in the park hard by, while here and there on ridges and flats a cat might be seen going calmly home from the devilries of the night to resume the amiabilities of the day.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Even gentle beasts and birds lived by the law of self-preservation; so did primitive man; the devilries of sophisticated man began naturally with the extension of his activities and the increase of his competitions — in other words, with the ramifications of self-preservation induced by so-called civilised life.

Maid in Waiting 2004

He did not know whether the giant was plotting new devilries or had been summoned away by that muttering voice, but he wasted no time in conjectures.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

He did not know whether the giant was plotting new devilries or had been summoned away by that muttering voice, but he wasted no time in conjectures.

The Devil In Iron Howard, Robert E. 1976

When The Lord of the Rings appeared in the mid-Fifties, many readers took it as a parable of the awful power of the hydrogen bomb, which, like the Ring, corrupts its owners; one of Saruman's devilries is "a huge umbrella of cloud."

Does Frodo Live? Smith, Janet Adam 1972

Who stirred up the sleeping tiger in the Sepoy's heart, and struck Christendom aghast with the dire devilries of Meerut and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

"Yes," said Jack, "after you have practised your brutal devilries on him."

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

But in others, his friends and comrades, the fierce immersion in the welter of ruin and pain and filth and horror and death brought only a more superb faith in the power of man's soul to rise above the hideous obsession of his own devilries, to retain the vision of beauty through the riot of foul things, of love through the tumult of hatreds, of life through the infinity of death.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

The people among whom these devilries are being enacted are Christians ruled by Christians, and have been Christian for centuries.

Pan-Islam