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Definition of Bedevils
1. bedevil [v] - See also: bedevil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedevils
Literary usage of Bedevils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Suddenly something's wrong—she laughs at me, bedevils the frail wires with some
mad caress That thrills ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"He was taught to see again how Rhetoric haunts, and Rhetoric bedevils, the
vindication of the clouded, especially in the case of a disesteemed Profession ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Poetry comes easier than prose and bedevils me. If I could work longer at a
stretch I should the sooner get released and have a chance of recovery. ..."
4. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1817)
"bedevils these are, to which this miserable world. is- exposed.*^-) But are these
evils, 1 beseech you, to be imputed to ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1780)
"... d bedevils them, without mercy.— But moft Readers, we apprend, will think that
there arc fome ..."
6. A History of American Literature .. by Moses Coit Tyler (1890)
"... which must either bedevils or lions; there being no other creatures which use
to roar saving bears, which have not such a terrible kind of roaring. ..."
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