diable

Eleonora Karpovna had most likely in her first youth been possessed of what the French for some unknown reason call beauté du diable, that is to say, freshness; but when I made her acquaintance, she suggested involuntarily to the mind a good-sized piece of meat, freshly laid by the butcher on

The Jew and other stories 2006

And he almost wept at hearing the Spaniard, with his ready, enthusiastic speech, lauding the departed "diable," graphically setting forth the way in which his great genius was going to take the world when his turn should come.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

Indeed, he had never felt so small, for not only was the captain a man of superb proportions and conspicuous bearing, but he possessed, in spite of his fiery hair and fierce moustache, that beaute de diable which is at once threatening and imposing.

Agatha Webb Anna Katharine Green 1890

We got into a 'diable', a sort of vehicle then very fashionable, and at eleven o'clock in the morning we were introduced to the duchess.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

We got into a 'diable', a sort of vehicle then very fashionable, and at eleven o'clock in the morning we were introduced to the duchess.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 06: Paris Giacomo Casanova 1761

The whole was bound by a thick, rich "diable" seafood broth that was slightly sweet and carried a surprisingly aggressive - to me, pitch-perfect - twitch of heat. l'Ambroisie, Paris, France

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Translated Short Fiction: Des choses fragiles (Fragile Things, collection), Neil Gaiman (Au diable vauvert)

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Some call it monkey mind, others le diable, * either way a reeling, ego-focused mind is hell on earth.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

Some call it monkey mind, others le diable, * either way a reeling, ego-focused mind is hell on earth.

la recolte - French Word-A-Day 2009

C´est à se demander: dans ce cas, que fait-il encore au pouvoir, que diable, si personne ne lui fait confiance et qu´apparemment il ne sait pas choisir les hommes qu´il faut pour obtenir des résultats satisfaisants à sa politique?

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