Many a time he had wriggled out of corners seemingly as tight and unescapable as the present one, chuckling at the discomfiture of the police and the bedevilment of his foes.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
He's too wild-too full of what Hagar Warren calls bedevilment.
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes
"The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared.
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