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How to use devilry in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word devilry? Here are some examples.

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He threw the broad sword and it hit right into the small face of the demon-beast that was using devilry magic.
Tony had stepped into the room just as his mother had accused his friend of devilry, and knew that he had to interrupt before things got ugly.
A trade group for the US recording industry is targeting ISPs in its latest bid to rid the world of Napster-style devilry.
In some ways, their findings merely confirm the accepted image of a King lacking the drive and devilry of either his father or his son.
The whole place had an eerie feel, it was over 250 years old and in that time there must have been plenty of devilry and scandalous behaviour.
Despite Cookie's ranting about the devilry of the Raleighs, I was still sure that there was a method behind their seemingly random cruelty.
What is the point of having a family if there's so much evil and devilry implicit in it all?
The artist that launched a thousand two-tone bands has dignity and devilry, vocal smile and varnished soul.
They have devilry in their souls, and a movie like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban does not soothe them.
Is it to expose them to devilry and witchery at such a young, impressionable age, and all in the name of fun?
Masking the witches also moves them from a simplistic medieval notion of devilry and further towards symbolism.
It seduces the men of the world with the sweet temptation of wealth and power that binds them to a fate of devilry, torture, and death.
Gretchen is his ideal with her delicacy and restraint, but Mephistopheles in all his fiendish devilry aims to thwart the lovers.
He carried on with his devilry not just because he thought it served a good purpose, but also because he enjoyed it.
As the moth leaves, the Isengard motif returns, driving itself like the machinery it represents as we see the devilry that Saruman is creating below the tower.
It was not good to introduce devilry into the Christmas scene, even if the Christ-child could defeat it with one wave of his tiny hand.
It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully.
Slowly, his astonishment mutated into a face of contorted devilry.
One thing he does is get up to a little competitive devilry by unveiling the Google Pack, a parcel of software programs that you can download for free.
Their best hope must be this: that Ledger will be so seducing in his devilry they will quickly forget it is him and that he is gone.
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Examples from Classical Literature
What a contrast between the turmoil and devilry of it and the serene calmness of the all but solitude the ghaut now presents!
The hoyden took him up in a moment, and added of her own devilry a trumpet and banner.
I kept my eye on her after that, for I knew there was some devilry in the wind.
Living just as he likes, setting an example of devilry to the whole neighbourhood!
All I ever cared for in you was your devilry, and your eyes that used to set me all on fire with love.
Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its somber and brooding ferocity?
This note of a dreamy, almost a sleepy devilry, was no mere fancy from the landscape.
In the smoking-room, after dinner, the Colonel put forward the view that Miss Schlegel had jumped it out of devilry.
And all I know about you is that you are always contriving some devilry.
But this seemed to say that the devilry was over all the earth.
They are desperate, then, and seem to exult in devilry of all kinds.
Your horses, my dear sir, resemble cats in size, and tigers in devilry!
We are witnessing a resurgence of devilry that is perfectly appalling.
In the hands of a young man, wealth is an invitation to devilry.
On the contrary, he rather liked the bird, and, out of devilry, tried to teach him oaths.
Perhaps some new devilry of the gods was about to be perpetrated on him.
At any rate, his eyes were brilliantly black and sparkling with devilry.
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