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
These old countries are full of romances and legends and diableries of all sorts, in which truth and lies are so mixed that one does not know what to believe.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
There is one more diabolical picture in our budget, engraved by Mr. Thompson, the same dexterous artist who has rendered the former diableries so well.
From George Cruikshank by Thackeray, William Makepeace
I want it to be pleasant and gay, and to throw myself en garçon on the festive diableries de Paris.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
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
