The devil's most devilish when respectable.
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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?
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Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
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My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish.
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