Divel

We actually have straight access down along the Hudson River now, and if you can cross right at the Amtrak line or swim across the Spitan Divel (ph), it's now beautiful green space all the way down Riverside from the George Washington Bridge.

CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2006 2006

In such manner doth as yet this Divel-plaguing Spirit domineer, by clear daylight, in many of the principallest houses and hearts, and makes oftentimes so great a difference and discord about the key of the Cash, that the Cash it self seems to get Eagles Wings, and swiftly flies away.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Another Gentlewoman of late daies, seeing that she had married a good mild-natured husband, that was not guilty of any vice, exercised her authority and wickedness so much the more over him; yea so far, that in the presence of several neighbors she oftentimes knockt, thumpt, and cudgelled him; that at last she was called by every one _The incarnate Divel_.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

"'Divel a bit!' says he, and with that he strode off, and me headlong at his heels!"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

Likewise the good woman cannot have so fit an occasion every foot to be making some new things, that she may follow the fashion, as it is usual for women to do; much less to have any private pocket-mony, to treat and play the Divel for God's sake, with her Bride-Maids, when her husband is gone from home.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

_Whilest the Husband is from home, the Wife plaies the Divel for God's sake.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

'Tis the Destroyer, or the Divil, that scatters Plagues about the World: Pestilential and Contagious Diseases, 'tis the Divel, who do's oftentimes Invade us with them.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

'Tis no uneasy thing, for the Divel, to impregnate the Air about us, with such Malignant Salts, as meeting with the Salt of our Microcosm, shall immediately cast us into that Fermentation and Putrefaction, which will utterly dissolve All the Vital Tyes within us; Ev'n as an Aqua Fortis, made with a conjuuction of Nitre and Vitriol, Corrodes what it Siezes upon.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

And when the Divel has raised those Arsenical Fumes, which become Venomous.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

Webster, John, alludes in the _White Divel_ to Shakespeare's industry,

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892