So often had it been glutted with butcheries that it longed for more delicate Devilries, new depths of death.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Through her Devilries she almost makes him lose his reputation, and does make him miss a rich marriage; but the end is that she gives him more than she took away from him, and makes a husband of the man who was thought her victim.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
Speak and tell me-were you about to cast those men, whom you were commanded to receive hospitably, into yonder fire because they saved the victim of your Devilries and killed the imp you cherished?
"Ayesha The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"
H. Rider Haggard