"She-devil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she-devil has got hold of the sack. Leave go, I tell you!" and he forced open the knife with ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... tried so hard to lure me, and because I resisted it inflamed her. Half angel, half devil was Blossom, a girl in years, but woefully wise, a soft siren when pleased, a she-devil when roused. She made me her special quarry. She fought for me. She drove off all the other girls. We talked together, we drank together, we "played the tables" together, but nothing more. She would coax me with the prettiest ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... live and die Even as it pleases thee." The proud maid then Used every artifice to thwart his will, Was sick with fury, yea, was nigh to death! And when the Emperor would not bate a jot, Hark what this wild she-devil then devised.... ...
— Turandot, Princess of China - A Chinoiserie in Three Acts • Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
... "Peace, she-devil! Make way," he cried; and catching her wrist—that looked as if it would snap at a touch—he flung her aside so roughly that she staggered and fell, the child beneath her ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... you. Mother of Mercies! I dare not help you!" hissed he. "She-devil! you have begun it, and you must finish ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... eventful summer: things had gone badly with the crescent flag, the Padishah was unapproachable in his palace, brooding perchance on that "might have been" had he not sold his honour and the life of his only friend to gratify the malice of a she-devil; those in attendance on the Sultan trembled, for the humour of the despot was ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... the noble / king of Burgundy, Also youthful Giselher / and Sir Gernot eke doth he. The treasure no one knoweth / but God and me alone, Nor e'er by thee, she-devil, / shall its ...
— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler
... the voice, "fly! That's the ticket. There's a devil here—a she-devil. I'll show you the way out. If you want to get off without Ashby seeing you, I'll show you how; I know the way. It's a secret passage. That's how I escaped the last time; and I'll take you to it ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... your honour give her one yesterday—with a mug of beer. By the laws, as the ale run all down her face, and she clutched a knife to run at you, I don't think I ever saw such a she-devil! That woman will do for your honour some ...
— Catherine: A Story • William Makepeace Thackeray
... to Neemuch (Or I might ha' been keepin' 'er now), An' I took with a shiny she-devil, The wife of a nigger at Mhow; Taught me the gipsy-folks' bolee;[2] Kind o' volcano she were, For she knifed me one night 'cause I wished she was white, And I ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling
... Denison, the supercargo, "and don't excite them any more. They're ready for any mischief now. Oh, you she-devil," and he darted into the middle of the room towards Rime and his grand-daughter. A stout muscular girl had torn the child's arms from the old man's waist, and was beating her savagely in the face with clenched fists. Denison gave ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke
... "That she-devil—the wife of the tenant in that house I sold Lubliner," Glaubmann replied. "I think we're going to have trouble with ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass |
