Sentence examples for the very devil from inspiring English sources

That dog is the very Devil.

They might be called the Angel Falls, but they are the very devil to get to.

And yet reports suggest that, behind the camera, the man can be the very devil.

Yes, he's the very Devil, though his accounts of his unbearable loneliness suggest that hell is just a cosmically magnified version of daily existence.

The 1968 Hammer horror, The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee as the Duc de Richleau (call him Duc), features the Goat of Mendes, a horny, hairy version of the very devil himself.

There is much terza rima, the very devil of a form: as one door opens, another closes, and I'd suggest interlocking tercets with three rhymes is a bigger ask than sonneteering.

Why the very day — in the Zulu war, it was, no in the Soudan — when I got this wound in the leg from a spear — a very devil — hic — of a gash — an awful weapon, my lad.

Bradlee is the very model of the devil-may-care Wasp — his entertaining new memoir, "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures" (Simon & Schuster; $27.50), gives the lie to Socrates' idea that the unexamined life is not worth living — but it was clear then, in the summer of 1981, that he had seen a life's work nearly destroyed by a rookie reporter he had hardly known.

They've formed an alliance of convenience, a sort of pact with the devil, with the very man who tried to bomb them out of existence five years ago.

But the very best thing about making your own deviled eggs?

What is more, the devil idea has had very real deleterious effects in the world; it actually caused the very thing it purported to identify: it caused evil.