The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.

For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.

When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.

Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic.

Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell.

Second, we need to understand that fear is a diabolic force.

Blind chance, it was rumoured, ruled all things; or perhaps a diabolic intelligence.

In 1766 Father Sterzinger attacked the very groundwork of the whole diabolic theory.

These latter were diabolic in the celerity with which they picked out meanings.

Your printers are the worst species of that diabolic genus I know of.

A voice was singing with diabolic satisfaction in the captain's brain:

Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal.

Yet more fearful to disclose the secret and unloose such a diabolic power.

For all I know, the expression of these last may be perfectly diabolic.

Everybody watched with wonder this play, as of some large and diabolic toy.

Her smile, that diabolic expression I so adored, lighted her lips.