"Devilishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... method is too slow to suit me, though. It would take months, perhaps years, and would be devilishly uncertain, to boot. They'll know something is in the wind, and the stuff will be surrounded by every safeguard they can think of. There must be some better way than that, but I haven't been able to think ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... hastily. "I mean before that time. I know it was not your fault; but those women friends of yours gave you bad advice. If they hadn't, or you hadn't taken it, we should at this moment have been free from a bond which, not to mince matters, galls both of us devilishly. It may be very ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... devilishly light," answered Max, "for look there!" pointing to the foot of the tower; "it has flown up ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... gave a sudden hard shudder. "He is much worse than callous. He is hideously, almost devilishly cruel. But—but—he isn't only that. Blake, do you think he is quite human? He is so horribly, so ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... "I've been devilishly wrong, Sand, and returned your hospitality and friendship with bad grace, old fellow, but I drifted into it and when it was too late—I did what seemed the only decent thing. I know I couldn't have explained, and she turned my senses by her sweetness. She's like a baby, Morley, and ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock |
