(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.
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Examples for "dickens"
Examples for "dickens"
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What really plays the dickens with us is some thing in ourselves.
2
One day he finds he is in a dickens of a fix.
3
It is raining like the dickens in London, and miserable beyond description.
4
But it seemed that they were having a dickens of a time.
5
Burns your throat, too, and makes one as thirsty as the dickens.
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Murray can't convert them though: a double fault takes it to deuce.
2
In one hand he held a playing card: the deuce of diamonds.
3
It has played the deuce with me, in all sorts of ways.
4
I listened in puzzled fascination, and wondered who the deuce he was.
5
She was in the deuce of a hurry, I can assure you.
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Inwardly in the former is the devil, in the latter the Lord.
2
And Mr. Wesley also believed in the actual existence of the devil.
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Belief in the devil is the reverse side of faith in God.
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The devil saw it; and entered into the heart of Thomas Thurnall.
5
When the devil was gone and the man spoke; the people wondered.
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The devil in the centre shouted a fierce harangue into the air.
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Her whole appearance was horrible; the devil was once more in possession.
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But the devil is the head of the multitude of the wicked.
9
Jesus remembered how the devil had once tempted him in the wilderness.
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He believes in fighting the devil, and he delights in fighting him.
11
The devil astride the jib boom, his tail lashing in the wind.
12
In the Occident, giving to the poor is lending to the devil.
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He hath alway the knife in doublet and the devil at elbow.
14
God is there, and the devil; yea, each in his own kingdom.
15
The name of the devil is likewise used in their magical devices.
16
The devil was not only in his heart, but in his hand.
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