"Fiendishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you recognize me," Doctor Q chuckled, fiendishly. "Good! You will not be so foolish ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... violent mud-pies. The suit he wore was stained and greasy—he had slept in it for many nights. Altogether, he was about the most hopeless-looking individual a girl could be asked to look upon. At his master's words, he grinned a fiendishly happy grin, spread out his arms as if to embrace the charming Angela, and, if possible, press a kiss upon her rosy cheek. But Angela, with one look at him, collapsed into "Red's" waiting arms. He seemed like heaven ...
— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne
... this time that Mozart was implicated by the gossips in a domestic tragedy. Frau Hofdaemmel was a pupil of Mozart's whose husband grew fiendishly jealous of her, attacked her with a razor, wounded her almost to death, and then committed suicide. The story gradually grew up that Mozart was the cause of the man's jealousy, and Otto Jahn, in his first edition of his monumental ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes
... result for which she had striven. The door moved slowly downward and a dash of freezing air came from the widening aperture at the top, blowing damp across her face. Staggering away from the ghostlike hole that seemed to grin fiendishly until it spread itself into a long, black gulf with eyes, a voice, and clammy hands, she grabbed up the still lighted lantern and cried aloud in a frenzy of fear. The door slowly sank out of sight and the way was open but her courage ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... been so fiendishly cold-blooded and calculating that it made his blood boil, for it was perfectly evident now to Buck that he had thwarted a deliberate plot to introduce the blackleg scourge among the Shoe-Bar cattle. Instead of riding fence, the two punchers must have made ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames |
