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She-devil   /ʃi-dˈɛvəl/   Listen
She-devil

noun
1.
A cruel woman.






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"She-devil" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Denison, the supercargo, "and don't excite them any more. They're ready for any mischief now. Oh, you she-devil," and he darted into the middle of the room towards Rime and his grand-daughter. A stout muscular girl had torn the child's arms from the old man's waist, and was beating her savagely in the face with clenched fists. Denison gave her an under-clip on the jaw and sent her down, and in a few seconds ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke

... The mother of Solano was a she-devil under the saddle, and killed two men by throwing herself upon them; and the sire was Satanas, of whom stories are told around the camp-fires as far south ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower

... indignantly. "Not enough hold? I hope, in any case, that you won't let her go. She made no bones, you know, about attacking you! Come, Chief, polish her off, a she-devil like that!" ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

... "That she-devil—the wife of the tenant in that house I sold Lubliner," Glaubmann replied. "I think we're going to have trouble with ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... she-devil has got hold of the sack. Leave go, I tell you!" and he forced open the knife with ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth



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