"Diabolical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was all ready for firing. He knew this by discovering that one of the powder kegs was open, and by finding the end of a rudely made fuse buried in its contents. Who had taught the Indians this diabolical trick of warfare? Never before had they been known to prepare a mine. They must have been instructed by some white man, and one possessed of military knowledge. All at once Donald recalled the voice that had demanded the surrender of the blockhouse. Certainly, ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... "I like his paces well," said the surgeon; "I think I shall take him for my own use." "And what am I to have for all the trouble his master caused me?" said my late entertainer, on whose countenance I now observed, for the first time, a diabolical squint. "The consciousness of having done your duty to a fellow-creature in succouring him in a time of distress, must be your reward," said the surgeon. "Pretty gammon, truly," said my late entertainer; "what would you say if I were to ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow
... no discoveries that will help us much, I have learned just enough to understand that there is a diabolical ...
— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... men, a "fireman," whose nose is nearly gone, and who is conscious that he has but a short while to live, requested to see his face in a looking-glass. Upon the request being granted, he broke into a diabolical laugh, crying out at the same time, in a loud voice, "What a damned ugly ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid
... in the letter she sent with the verses. "I put it in mostly to rhyme with 'remember.' (There simply wasn't a thing to rhyme with that word!) But, do you know, after I got it down I saw it really could mean somethin', after all— kind of diabolical-like for the end of life, you know, like December is the ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
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