| 单词 | blue devil |
| 例句 | The “blue devils” then gather at the town’s crossroads, spitting fake blood, to terrify the children of their neighbors, or of visitors from the island’s nearby capital of Port of Spain. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Outside, Victor turned to look back at the blue devil painted on the front of the school building that had once gleamed with the promise of his son’s success. How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z One day last month, he demonstrated how the test strips worked on a packet of heroin powder stamped with a blue devil on the side, which he bought from his regular dealer. To avoid overdoses, some test their heroin before taking it 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Just as a giant duck represents the University of Oregon and Duke has its blue devil, Donald Trump had Pruitt, who was less a steward of breathable air than an emblem of ethical rot. Opinion | Scott Pruitt, Gone but Not Forgotten 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “I’m well, but you sound like you’ve got a bit of the blue devils!” Lord Grantham Reacts to Brexit Decision 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z In this place two of Satan's respectable representatives, a blue devil and a red devil, were dealing out whisky-punch. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The halls were decorated with inspirational posters of Latino students attending college and completing ambitious projects mixed in with images of a scowling blue devil with horns, the school’s mascot. How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z But he had to have a diving bell; and where the blue devil could he get one with twelve dollars and an Ingersoll watch in his pocket? The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z The blue devils were drawn up in formation in the middle of a big meadow cupped within hills. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Archibald, duke of Argyle, was haunted by blue phantoms—the origin of our epithet for melancholy, "blue devils." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z When an old woman talks of witches, ghosts, or blue devils, we naturally make an allowance for bad education, or the imbicility of intellect, occasioned by age. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z When his parents had extra money, he asked for a T-shirt, sweatshirt or backpack emblazoned with Huntington High’s name and its mascot, the blue devil with horns. How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z To say I hate your gloomy men Might be esteemed a strong assertion, If I've blue devils, now and then, I make them dance for my diversion. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Drunkards see "blue devils"—they are unreal If the appearance of a man in a dream is an illusion, his words are so too. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Of course we all had a rapture, and I finished my work "double quick," regardless of weariness, toothache, or blue devils. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z "My dear Barton," he continued, gaily, after a little conversation, "my sister tells me that you are a victim to blue devils, in quite a new and original shape." In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 2011-08-25T02:00:34.247Z Men often talk of "the blue devils" getting hold of them, but it is often just a case of the devil finding work not for idle hands but for idle hearts. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z I dare say he's finely chagrined at this temporary parting—Eat up with the blue devils, I warrant. Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts 2011-07-06T02:00:44.873Z If to this it be answered that individuals do see what they deem to be spirits—just as many a drunken man avers that he sees "blue devils," we grant it at once. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z She could hardly ever relate an incident without being overcome with laughter, but the sound was pleasantly musical, infectious even, and the blue devils went out the window as she came in the door. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Since we are all once more the happy family, let us be merry, let us sing, talk, and scare the blue devils away. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z There is nothing miraculous in this; at the people's concerts many a working man has been released from the "blue devils" by a stirring chorus, a merry song, or patriotic anthem. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z You scared away all the blue devils with those dreadful discords. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I was anxious to requicken hope in her,—an odd office for me to assume when in my own affairs I had always yielded my sword readily to the blue devils! The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z I have gout and blue devils on me, but you can always do more for me than colchicum if you say 'all right.' Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z “It will be something gay, then, and lively—eh, Vetter?—to chase the blue devils away.” Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z I have not had the blue devils once since I received your last. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Even your friend Jack Price seems moped and out of sorts, and goes about singing, 'The heart that once truly loves never forgets,' or something like that, enough to give a fellow the blue devils. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Bah—an idea from one of your nights, when you tried to drown the blue devils! She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z With Will on the road, left to myself in the empty apartment, the blue devils renewed their lease. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Marie-Louise is herself again, and—pouf!—the blue devils are blown away. The Belovéd Traitor Magnificent contrasts of color, set off by the vineyard scenery, and our own blue devils over there--like a thunder-cloud. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II "Sit ye down, Zeb," said he, "the blue devils have me sure." Our Admirable Betty A Romance Twelve miles he gave her, but the blue devil rode equally well and sat down again with Charter in his study. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z That view was well calculated to dispel blue devils. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 How good of you to drive over to this dreary spot," began the Member, jauntily, "where the blue devils seem to have their especial home. One Of Them "I 'd get the blue devils in a week; I 'd be found hanging some fine morning—" "For shame, papa," broke in Molly. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day We discussed the point every morning at breakfast for a week, and the poor dear King at last called us the 'blue devils; 'very happy, wasn't it, Miss Dalton? The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Beth had just had her shoes set, and Charter tried to ride off the blue devil. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Oh, I shall have my dark days; but whenever the blue devils get thick I shall take to the woods and return to sanity.” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 In fact, till I opened the main road to Mahon the blue devils were in full possession, and made the most of their time. The Recipe for Diamonds She got so she recognized Sherm’s blue devils as far off as she could see him. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Northrup, hurrying on, believed there was no better way to drive off the blue devils that were torturing him than to pass the evening with Twombley. At the Crossroads I shall get the blue devils in this cursed place. She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa I was a don at squibs and crackers; and the games we used to have laying trains and making blue devils! The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War One of the mates above mentioned, seeing me moping with the blue devils, brought it me. A Sailor of King George I only drink enough to raise my spirits, and drive away the blue devils. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life He should reintroduce the Scold's Bridle among the other Blue Laws for a land of blue devils. What I Saw in America Your presence is a sufficing tonic for a most oppressive attack of the blue devils. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The blue devils are chasing me today and I am wearing the expression that sits on the lips of every portrait in every exhibition. Letters of a Dakota Divorcee Yellow fever and scurvy had taken their departure, and the only evil which remained with us was the blue devils, in consequence of the monotony so prevalent in a long cruise. A Sailor of King George Don't talk to me of your thirst; rum's not for thirst, but to strengthen the heart and nerves, to drive away the blue devils. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Self-mastery was his first law, the code by which he lived; and mostly the blue devils had lifted their curse from him. The Snowshoe Trail "I came to try and walk off a brace of blue devils that have been camping on my trail," Thode explained, climbing into the car with manifest reluctance. The Fifth Ace I laughed at them, and still tried it on, when one of them called to a blue devil, ‘Take this fellow into custody,’ says he, ‘and I will appear against him to-morrow morning.’ Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves This they attributed to two causes: greater attention to personal cleanliness and to all hygienic precautions; and the exercise of better trained minds and wills keeping them free from the deadly "blue devils." Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Sly disposition is sanguine enough, but when the blue devils once do get hold of me—well, I 'm all in. The Paternoster Ruby I have been, in fact, keeping company with the blue devils pretty well since I came home. Mary Gray Hurrying back to the Nor'wester's fort on Peace River, he was beset by the blue devils of despondency. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom But in the dumps, blue devils, and so on. The Young Duke You would not suppose that we are subject to the blue devils? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 I am come here to meet an angel, who will, in a moment, drive away the blue devils like mist before the sun. Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Away with blue devils, away with distresses, And give the gay spirit to sparkling desire. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Do you know, that to escape the nightmare that haunts my chamber after you go, I have to play sleep even if I'm dying with thirst or blue devils? The Place Beyond the Winds It is the only process that at the same time calms the feelings and elevates the spirits, banishes blue devils and raises one to the society of 'angels ever bright and fair.' The Young Duke Indeed nothing can be more diverting to a person annoyed by blue devils, than to look at a white Owl and his wife asleep. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 There's a rose between its leaves, kept for a talisman against the blue devils which sometimes get me in their grip. Contrary Mary I have felt very unwell, but my blue devils are quite gone, and I am altogether better. Letters from Egypt Sometimes he would descend with his blue devils into the abyss, and sit there all the evening in a dismal sulk. The House by the Church-Yard At times, too, the blue devils raised their heads. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Be it observed, then, that the sole certain way of getting rid of the blue devils, is to drown them in a shower-bath. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 He was very sorry for himself, and he had the blue devils the worst kind of way. Arms and the Woman Illness is the only excuse for such weakness, and even then will-power may do much toward chasing away the blue devils. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) We have, to be sure, our petty squabbles and heart-burnings, and we have something of the blue devils at times, as to these raw heads and bloody bones who are eating up other nations. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 They knew that he could wrestle with what he called his "blue devils" more successfully alone. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Pie!" gasped the foreman's wife, "and him almost killed by that blue devil there! The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Violent bodily exercise, riding, or climbing up steep and rugged pathways are my best remedies for the blue devils. Records of a Girlhood No," he said, "no, but I blame them somewhat for loving the blue only in the butterflies of which you speak, the blue devils that penetrate their brain! His Excellency the Minister Darkness isn't wholesome—too conducive to low spirits and the blue devils. The Baronet's Bride The dejection into which his "blue devils" had cast him was as nothing to the remorse that overwhelmed him now. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe It is strange that just at this time, when everybody is praising you, and when fortune is beginning to smile upon your hitherto wretched circumstances, you should be invaded by those blue devils. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 I sit at dinner, consumed by blue devils. V. V.'s Eyes He sat down before the fire, and taking his head between his hands allowed the blue devils to triumph. What Dreams May Come Hardship and daily discomfort in all the arrangements of life counted for something, and especially so the bad food, greasy, unwholesome, horribly cooked, enough to afflict an ostrich with the blue devils of dyspepsia. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I It is strange that just at the time when everybody is praising you and when Fortune has begun to smile upon your hitherto wretched circumstances you should be invaded by these villainous blue devils. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe "Give 'em hell, ye little blue devils!" he yelled; and there was all evidence that they understood him. D'Ri and I As for The Imp, I cannot too strongly lay it down that only blue devils are bad for the digestion, and Galloping Queen may gallop farther than or not so far as Miss Ethel. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890 I don't much believe in any blue devils save those that live in the body and send sallies into the mind. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss What though you tell me that prompt apoplexy Grins o'er the glories of Lord Mayor's Day, 'Tis better, my boy, than blue devils to vex ye, Or ling'ring consumption to gnaw you away. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 Then with a smile, "You see the blue devils have the upper hand of me tonight, Myra." The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Reader, if you have the blue devils at Christmas, you may realize all this, and reach Madeira, as I have done, in eight days from the Downs. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 Oh! ye, who pine, in London smoke immured, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncured, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatism, coughs, blue devils! Poems (1828) But he could not sleep—the blue devils were playing at hide-and-seek within his heart, and phantoms that once were flesh came trooping from out the gloom and hovered round him. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 "I should have said you were one person the blue devils wouldn't dare attack." The Cost He was evidently finding Mademoiselle Noemie extremely interesting; the blue devils had departed, leaving the field clear. The American And what has all that to do with Dante, and the blue devils? Nightmare Abbey Ah, the blue devil that came in your eyes! Harrigan Come, captain," he said; "this is what I call giving yourself up to the blue devils. Run to Earth A Novel "You can always get ahead of the little blue devils." The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love This led me to Le Buisson—a place possessed of the blue devils, and which exists merely out of compliment to the railway-junction here. Two Summers in Guyenne Not much, I should think, with Dante, but a great deal with the blue devils. Nightmare Abbey But can Gumbo shut the hall-door upon blue devils, or lay them always in a red sea of claret? The Virginians The specially contemporary spirits are not only devils, they are blue devils. Tremendous Trifles "And make them a little bit more amenable to reason in the morning," added Edestone, and he laughed, for action with him always drove away the blue devils. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War "You are having a season with the blue devils," she announced. The Call of the Cumberlands This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils. Nightmare Abbey The blue devils were swarming so thick around me that I didn't want to fight them in the close quarters of my state-room. The Lady of the Decoration But you have heard of a blue devil. Tremendous Trifles It cheers me up and keeps me from the blue devils. My Boyhood On my arrival I was greeted by your letter of the 27th; a very good cure for blue devils. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Should you still be suffering from spleen, liver or the blue devils, go for a gallop on your "Wildfire." Peregrine's Progress I told him the best way to drive off the blue devils would be to go with me and a few friends to the Grotta Azzura. A Romance of the Republic At all events, he should stay to-night, partly because when the blue devils were down on Scowl Austin nothing cheered him like showing his "luck" off to someone. The Magnetic North Yetive sat back and marvelled at the manner in which this blithe young American cast out the "blue devils." Beverly of Graustark The question was directed rather sharply to a particularly deferential "blue devil" who stood at his elbow. The Prince of Graustark For then into the swept and garnished chambers of that empty mind enter seven or more blue devils. Stella Fregelius "Then, if the blue devils possess you, we will try Saul's method of driving them away," said she. A Romance of the Republic Were you ever alone in a strange land, sitting between the four walls of a barren, stuffy room with the blue devils swarming thick around you? Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information However, for whatever reason it might have been, no Swiss patrols bothered the blue devils and Mr. Recklow. In Secret I'm sure my imagination will work beautifully when it isn't subdued by all these blue devils. The Prince of Graustark Who wouldn’t scream at the prospect of an attack of the Continental blue devils—eh, Miss Janice?” Janice Meredith But the Blue Grotto, wonderful as it was, didn't quite drive away Fitzgerald's blue devils, though it made him forget his vexations for the time. A Romance of the Republic They told us that the French chasseurs, the famous blue devils, were more or less careless about the way they forgot to take prisoners. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me I have improved very much here, and so long as I take heaps of exercise every day I have nothing to complain of beyond a fit of blue devils when I wake in the morning. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 The blue devils take flight at once if they see you mean to bury them and make compost of them. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers "Well," I replied, with the kind of joke one perpetrates under such circumstances, "we shall have plenty of blue devils without making any more." Allan and the Holy Flower The only use of honours is as an antidote to such fits of the "blue devils." Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 For there was no doubt that Jim had blue devils now. The Story of Julia Page I back la belle M— against all the physicians in the world—even against mine own particular Aesculapius, Dr. Clark—to find the sovereignest remedy against the blue devils. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 He went on with these pranks for some years, till he took a fit of the blue devils. Roughing It in the Bush Balzac's policy, after this mishap, was to keep on the best terms possible with Monsieur Hanski, who, to use the Frenchman's English expression, suffered from chronic blue devils. Balzac Away with blue devils, away with distresses, And give the gay spirit to sparkling desire! Rejected Addresses Your English climates sometimes gives your English blue devil to foreign mens like me. Poor Miss Finch But a late dinner wakes up my demoniac colon and gives me a fit of blue devils with physical precision. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 "Don't mind him," said Hi, under his breath, "the blue devils are runnin' him down." The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills And it was worth wondering at, for there is nothing, as everybody knows, which sooner breaks down one's spirits and brings on the blue devils than being left alone, without friends and companionship. For Greater Things; the story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka I thought fresh air and exercise would drive away the blue devils that had me by the throat. The Man in Lower Ten I have got him now—an English blue devil in a German inside. Poor Miss Finch But I'm no the waur, and the late dinners have not been visited by fits of morning blue devils. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 All the blue devils in blue hell," said Syme, "contributed to my blue funk! The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare "We all have our blue devils—is not that the English term?" she replied. The Lily of the Valley At any rate, the blues were gone, and the blue devils had not put in an appearance. The Sea Wolf Now let me walk out my blue devil. Poor Miss Finch |
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