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Definition of Like the devil
1. Adverb. With great speed or effort or intensity. "Fought like the devil"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Like The Devil
Literary usage of Like the devil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conspiracy Unveiled. The South Sacrificed; Or, The Horrors of Secession by James W. Hunnicutt (1863)
"SECESSION like the devil. IT is said that the devil was a liar from the beginning.
If he were a liar from the beginning, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"... like the devil,' in cases of need. But all this aside—allow me to state, I
have come hero on business ..."
3. Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt; Or, Remorse of Conscience: In the Kentish by Dan Michel, Laurent (1866)
"63 Swearing and forswearing (perjury) . . . . . . 63 Seven modes of swearing .
. 63-65 Strife 65 Strife like the devil's works 65 Seven boughs of Strife . ..."
4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... he would tell him in what maner he went away : " Why," faid Moyle, " you went
away like the devil, and took one corner of the ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"It is most like the devil its father, in a serpentine deceitfulness and secrecy
... There is no sin so much like the devil as this for secrecy and subtilty, ..."
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