Read full poem →And sell his soul for vanity
To rhyming and the devil?
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Used to add emphasis to a question or statement.
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“What the devil are you doing here at this time of night?”
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Poetry examples for “the devil”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In love's, in nature's spite, the siege they hold,
And scorn the flesh, the devil, and all--but gold.
These write to lords, some mean reward to get,
Read full poem →He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case,
And thus broke out--'My Lord, why, what the devil?
Z--ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil!
Read full poem →She first conversed with her own kind,
That ancient worm, the Devil.
Read full poem →Thanks, for the fiend best knows whether woman or man be the worse.
I will bury myself in my books, and the Devil may pipe to his own.
Read full poem →Hold up, you beast, now what the devil!
Confound this moor for a pockholed, evil,
Read full poem →No, to Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Lodi, and Milan,
Off go we to-night,--and the Venus go to the Devil!
Read full poem →We learn it when we go to school
The devil take the hindmost, O!
Read full poem →Strike on the board like them that pray for evil,
When thou dost wish thy husband at the devil.[146]
What wine he fills thee, wisely will[147] him drink;
Read full poem →Which straight dissolves[467] this ill-assembled rout.
But since the devil brought them thus together,
To my discoursing thoughts it is a wonder, 10