"Like the devil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reorganize 'em like the devil," said Hugo sincerely; for if a man does not want a woman to boast a little before now and then, he does not want her ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... Paris. You and me were different kinds. What you got over there was just what you needed, it has put you already way out of my class, and it's going to give you a lot of power as a spreader of ideas. That's why I hate so like the devil to see you starting out like this, with what I'm so sure are ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole
... would be difficult to drive him from it. But he had not made sufficient allowance for the energy and ability of the Confederate leaders. His situation, in reality, was one of extreme danger. In ordering Pope to the Rapidan, and bidding him "fight like the devil'* (* O.R. volume 12 part 2 page 67. "It may have been fortunate for the Confederates," says Longstreet, "that he was not instructed to fight like Jackson.") until McClellan should come up, Halleck made the same fatal error as Stanton, when he sent Shields up the Luray Valley in pursuit ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
... It's my hobby—one of the last." A broad, boyish smile flashed over the handsome old face. "Look at me; I'm seventy-five, and I can tire out my own grandsons at riding and shooting. That comes of avoiding all allopathic messes like the devil. But the allopaths are such mean fellows they filch ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... pretender to genius. His morals were not left unimpeached; he was charged with selling other men's work printed in his name,—a gross distortion of his employing assistants in the translation of the 'Odyssey',—he was ungrateful, unjust, a foe to human kind, an enemy like the devil to all that have being. The noble authors, probably well aware how they could give the most pain, proceeded to attack his family and his distorted person. His parents were obscure and vulgar people; and he himself a ...
— The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems • Alexander Pope
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