Devill

R, opposit a hard place of water called the Devill race grown, S 63° W

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

The Elizabethan anatomizer of abuses Phillip Stubbes, too, explicitly associated brothels with alehouses -- or, as he called them, "the slaughter howses, the shambles, the blockhowses of the Devill, wherein he butchereth Christen mens soules, infinit waies, God knoweth."

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

He did not doubt that the devil was active in Massachusetts and surmised that thirty of the witches who confessed had done so because they were "possessed (I reckon) with the Devill."

The Witch Trials Rathbone, Perry T. 1979

And it is supposed, that after that day the Devill took more violent and strong possessioun in hir [762] then he had befoir; for, from that day fordwarte, sche appeared altogether altered, insomuche that hir countenances and factes did declair the vennome of hir harte.

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"The Devill cane not speik such wordis as yonder man doith speik."

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Suddenly there fell a tremendous downpour of rain, with pitchy darkness, which seemed so timely for the Iroquois that Radisson remarks, "To my thinking, the Devill himselfe made that storme to give those men leave to escape from our {204} hands."

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

Devill keapt fast the grippe that he gatt, yea, evin all the dayis of his governement.

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Devill is to saw discord; how that mony wald desyre na better game but to hunt us at uther.

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I meane not only that perpetuall fyre and torment, prepared for the Devill, and for such as denying Christ Jesus and his knawin veritie, do follow the sones of wickednes to perditioun,

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Do ye nocht considder, that in so doing ye labour to manteyne the servandis of syne in thair filthie corruptioun; and so consequentlie ye labour, that the Devill may regne, and still abuse this realme, by all iniquitie and tyrannye, and that Chryst Jesus and his blessed

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