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Meanings of fiendish delight in English

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Usage of fiendish delight in English
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The brutal soldiery took a fiendish delight in fulfilling the order given them.
The Mark of the Beast
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Then he takes fiendish delight in kicking out the others.
The Mountains
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With fiendish delight Nightgall took him to the horrible chamber.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
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Senora de Moche seemed to take a fiendish delight in the words as she said them.
Gold of the Gods
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The pirut rapidly approached, chucklin with fiendish delight at the idee of increasin his ill-gotten gains.
Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers / Artemus Ward, George Macdo...
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Her former companions took a fiendish delight in ordering her about till her life became perfectly unbearable.
The Mysteries of Montreal: Being Recollections of a Female Physi...
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I feel that I'm in the power of some supernatural being who takes a fiendish delight in torturing me.
Possessed
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He squirmed and writhed with fiendish delight, and again he struck it on the nose and made it leap.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
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They take a fiendish delight in torturing us with tantrums, galling us with gammon, and pelting us with platitudes.
The Fiend's Delight
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And Kate would catch me up on it-shetakes a perfectly fiendish delight in cornering me in a lie, lately.
The Lookout Man
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Why are those realities to present themselves in merciless and mocking array to gloat upon our sufferings with fiendish delight?
Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
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Danny Griswold seemed to take a fiendish delight in giving a humorous twist to anything sentimental, and so he interrupted with:
Frank Merriwell's Races
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The Bedlington seems to have the power of command, and he takes a fiendish delight in ordering young dogs to play pranks.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Ou...
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The tiger's heart was filled with cunning, premeditation, and fiendish delight in the perverted and these were the tools of his ambition.
The Complete Jack the Ripper
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Every day Nick wrote a bulletin to be sent to the Vicomtesse, and he took a fiendish delight in the composition of these.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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At times he would enter into a conversation with Philippina, and when she told him the latest news he was filled with fiendish delight.
The Goose Man
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