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Definition of Devilments
1. devilment [n] - See also: devilment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devilments
Literary usage of Devilments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Leaguers by Shan F. Bullock (1904)
"Wasn't the world wide enough for your devilments, that you must come playing them
here ... Pardon me," I struck in ; " but my devilments, as you call them, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... and simple Chinese devilments beat to a frazzle. Yes, sir, you need smoked
spectacles, and then some, where the straight sun pitches on ice-fields, ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... pushed his hat far back on his head, in the interest of self-possession, "
that it's gone wrong. With all these wash-outs and devilments, the last fo't- ..."
4. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"The peasants do not like to be out after dark, for they are afraid of ghosts and
all sorts of devilments, and it was difficult to induce them to start so ..."
5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1898)
"Your Italian is nowhere when he competes with the Northerner in devilments.
He can be terrible, but not terrible and ludicrous at the same time. ..."
6. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"E. Gosselin in his devilments . . . de la marine Normande (Rouen, 1876), enumerates (p.
142) some of the voyages made from Norman ports to Brazil and parts ..."
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