Sentence examples for devil over from inspiring English sources

It was flesh and the devil over spirit and the angels.

They offer to banish the devil over me, and my mother lets them.

Private Eye, a satirical magazine, jokes that he is in negotiations with the devil over the sale of his soul, "which I have not needed for some time".

How did Jeanette Winterson recover from the fantastically bad luck of landing in the embrace of a woman who understood motherhood as a daily struggle with the Devil over the ownership of her child's soul?

Whatever the origin, the place of the devil in lore was secured in January 1909, when strange footprints, attacks on livestock and reported encounters with the devil over several days created panic in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

After May had roughed it in Small Heath, it was Tommy's turn to see just how the other half live, as he drove out of his way to see her, and she in turn invited the devil over her door.

Mike Danton's short and controversial career with the Devils is over, but not without more controversy.

After a somnolent first period in which they produced just six shots on Montreal goalie Jocelyn Thibault, the Devils took over in the second on goals by Sergei Brylin and Holik.

As the service concluded, a missing-pilot formation of P-38 Lightnings, dreaded by the Germans as "fork-tailed devils," roared over the cemetery.

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The Islanders snapped an 0-6-1-0 0-6-1-0 0-6-1-0 0-6-1-0overunhe pagainst seasons.