1 The thing to do was to work like the devil and stop worrying about the Yankee government.
2 Women did look like the devil at such times.
3 Uncle Peter feared him only a little less than the devil or the Ku Klux and even Mammy walked silently and timorously around him.
4 You can go to the devil and not at your leisure.
5 My pet, I've been to the devil and he's a very dull fellow.
6 Well, you've got him where you want him now, poor devil, as shackled to you by obligations as any of your convicts are by their chains.
7 If you are trying to devil me," she said tiredly, "it's no use.
8 He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.
9 When the devil drove, Mammy could be as swift as a lithe black sixteen-year-old and her curiosity to get into Rhett's room made her work faster.
10 'Here's the difference it makes, I says, just to devil him.
11 Either you want to dance, or you bang the piano, or else you get moody as the devil and don't want to talk or anything else.
12 If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.
13 But the little devil did not seem to fancy such dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips.
14 Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
15 They're playing the devil with his estate, I can tell him.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.