diableries
- plural of diablerie.
Example Sentences
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By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'.
From Time Magazine Archive
How beautiful are the scenes, about to follow, depicted in the overtures to Der Freyschutz and Oberon; what wild diableries are not suggested by those wonderful compositions!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
I perceive that many amateur American Al-Raschids are abroad in the land, pockets echoing the tintinnabulation of manifold marks and eyes abulge at the prospect of midnight diableries.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
He cannot be unreal—the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic diableries as of his most everyday studies of society; is unsurpassed.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
It is a strange wild piece, quite in the German style and full of horrors and diableries.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
