diable

• “Eleonora Karpovna had most likely in her first youth been possessed of what the French for some unknown reason call beauté du diable, that is to say, freshness; but when I made her acquaintance, she suggested involuntarily to the mind a good-sized piece of meat, freshly laid by the butcher on”

  The Jew and other stories

• “And he almost wept at hearing the Spaniard, with his ready, enthusiastic speech, lauding the departed "diable," graphically setting forth the way in which his great genius was going to take the world when his turn should come.”

  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.

• “Indeed, he had never felt so small, for not only was the captain a man of superb proportions and conspicuous bearing, but he possessed, in spite of his fiery hair and fierce moustache, that beaute de diable which is at once threatening and imposing.”

  Agatha Webb

• “We got into a 'diable', a sort of vehicle then very fashionable, and at eleven o'clock in the morning we were introduced to the duchess.”

  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

• “The whole was bound by a thick, rich "diable" seafood broth that was slightly sweet and carried a surprisingly aggressive - to me, pitch-perfect - twitch of heat. l'Ambroisie, Paris, France”

  the ulterior epicure

• “C´est à se demander: dans ce cas, que fait-il encore au pouvoir, que diable, si personne ne lui fait confiance et qu´apparemment il ne sait pas choisir les hommes qu´il faut pour obtenir des résultats satisfaisants à sa politique?”

  Global Voices in English » D.R. of Congo: Furor Over Kabila’s New York Times Interview

• “Translated Short Fiction: Des choses fragiles (Fragile Things, collection), Neil Gaiman (Au diable vauvert)”

  Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » Grands Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners

• “Some call it monkey mind, others le diable, * either way a reeling, ego-focused mind is hell on earth.”

  la recolte - French Word-A-Day

• “So if you remove or diable cookies, doubleclick will come right back as soon as you visit Google and you'll need to go and opt out again.”

  TBTAM PSA : Is Double Click Slowing you Down?

• “Passé simple et participe passé de hang sauf dans le sens d'exécuter par pendaison ou dans l'expression idiomatique I'll be hanged if I know : le diable m'emporte si je le sais.”

  Archive 2010-05-01

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