| 单词 | bedevilment |
| 例句 | An understated comic actor, he was especially adept at conveying life’s tiny bedevilments. James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Not so with “Girls,” whose characters are steeped in the millennial generation’s bedevilment of feeling entitled in a world filled with McJobs. ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Returns, and a New Day Begins 2014-01-13T04:00:22Z "We used to, back in the day, for the bedevilment of it." Johnny Marr on the Smiths, Morrissey and putting politics back in pop 2013-01-11T07:00:00Z In other words, science’s bedevilment is a result neither of madness nor of efforts to enliven undergraduate lectures with some impish examples. Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Many a time he had wriggled out of corners seemingly as tight and unescapable as the present one, chuckling at the discomfiture of the police and the bedevilment of his foes. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Bronx juries are to the New York police what third terms are to New York mayors: sources of bedevilment. City Room: Fix a Ticket, Alienate a Bronx Jury 2011-06-06T12:35:33Z ‘The same,’ said I, not a bit daunted now at what he said, for I was by this time used to all kinds of bedevilment, and, besides, I knew him of ould. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker would be all down on me with summonses, and writs, and executions, and bedevilments of every imaginable kind. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z By the time Queen Victoria was on the throne the grime had set in in earnest, and was hard at work long before the fifty-one Exhibition reported progress—progress in bedevilment, says the Pessimist? When Ghost Meets Ghost On the contrary, he said, "The boy will need it all as an offset to the bedevilments that will overtake him in our profession." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Teufelsdr�ckh himself could have made shift to face the general chaos and bedevilment of this world's experiences very well, were he not the victim of an originally unlimited trust and affection towards them. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy So I hope there is the greater chance of no such bedevilment happening to me. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Isabelle did not formulate any plan of bedevilment for the Captain, but she watched for opportunities with lynx-eyed attention. The Cricket They tell me that the fair and its bedevilments have pretty well been knocked on the head. Old Jack When he was among his own kind he summed up the bedevilments in the word "bunk." Erik Dorn But the expression of this was already, at the end of a minute, a strange bedevilment: she began to listen to herself, to speak dramatically, to represent. The Tragic Muse When once the word "kîrât" is mentioned, flee the place, for you may be assured that it is the abode of all bedevilment. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 This Puritan bedevilment by the idea of personal sin, this reign of the God-crazy, gave way in later years, as we shall see, to other and somewhat milder forms of pious enthusiasm. A Book of Prefaces Mr. Tate, his dog under his arm, paused at the door to fling over his shoulder another muttered taunt about "bedevilment," and disappeared. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul These, to me, were like the bedevilments of those dreams from which we groan to awake, but cannot. London River "That is where he does his bedevilments, I suppose?" the officer suggested. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman But let us say no more of all this bedevilment. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 But having entered, the confusion and bedevilment was ten times worse than even in the churchyard itself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 Head and foot-board were fretted and carved with great blobs representing grapes, and cornucopias, and tendrils, and knobs and other bedevilments of the cabinet-maker's craft. Cheerful—By Request He's too wild—too full of what Hagar Warren calls bedevilment. Maggie Miller And, my good fellow, if you will open your bedevilments to me when they come thick upon you, I may show you better ways out of them than you can find for yourself.' Hard Times Scotland is the home of weird, uncanny creatures, who take lovely shapes for the bedevilment of poor weak souls. Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power Jack, unusually impressed, whispered to me that Edmund must have been playing us some Hindoo bedevilment trick, for he could not believe that we were actually in a foreign world. A Columbus of Space I can only account for it by that bedevilment of the entire American ideal through the retention of the English economy when the English polity was rejected. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? Last Poems by A. E. Housman Suspicion, arising from his own contact with evil, though he escaped, has imparted the look of hypocrisy to all life; this is his bedevilment. Nathaniel Hawthorne The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction I am to go and devote myself to coaxing the left ventricle wall to thicken pro rata—among the mountains, and to have nothing to do with any public functions or other exciting bedevilments. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 "Yes, with burnings and bedevilments I am well satisfied." Ayesha, the Return of She Curiously enough this transcription, difficult as it is, does not tax the fingers as much as a bedevilment of the A minor, op. Chopin : the Man and His Music Only it was noted that the Abbot changed his sleeping-chamber, after which, except for a sickness which struck the monks—it was thought from the drinking of sour beer—these bedevilments were abated. The Lady of Blossholme Whether he suspected anything was up, or wanted to dare Higbee for bedevilment, or was only dancing attendance on Miss Sally, no one knows. Sally Dows She HAD helped him—I had his own word for it that at Clockborough her bedevilment of the voters had really put him in. The Coxon Fund The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth. Bleak House |
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