34 Sentences With "devil of a" | Random Sentence Generator

And I had a devil of a time remembering OBOLI.

But I had a devil of a time solving it.

I'm having a devil of a time figuring out which news is fake.

It would still be a devil of a job, though, to make a machine that thought like him.

But he has a devil of a time staying on that message for more than a few hours — especially with a high-stakes election just days away.

And the outside world would have a devil of a time getting into the affected area because all the harbors and airports would be fried as well.

DEVIL OF A RACE DOWN IN GEORGIA Ted Turner still had a black moustache the last time we could have said that Georgia was at the vanguard of America's future.

Given the G.O.P.'s difficulty in pushing through legislation even with the largest House majority since 1928, Paul Ryan will have a devil of a time winning votes if he loses this cushion.

Strategists and analysts are having a devil of a time figuring out what—if any—impact the Trump victory will have on corporate earnings in 2017, but CFOs seem to think it's mostly good news.

Frank Hines, who led the agency between the two World Wars, told the New York Times in 85033 that his friends wondered why he would leave a cushy position at a steamship company to take "a devil of a job" in Washington.

I had a devil of a time coming up with a title — anything that seemed like it was making fun of speech impediments would be unseemly, so I figured the title would have to be just another example of the sound change.

After reading it, I went back to the first book, when she becomes an embittered devil of a person, but I was rooting for her now, yelling, "Go off, Grandma!" as she pours tar on Cathy's hair and feeds arsenic-laced doughnuts to her own grandchildren.

If Cleveland wants to try to get the players that system would require, it could explore a riskier but infinitely more interesting blockbuster deal based around Irving, a whirling tasmanian devil of a playmaker who is a blast to watch, but whose flaws are deservedly shoved under a microscope over and over again.

A Devil of a Woman () is a 1951 Austrian drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

Hermann Erhardt (January 9, 1903 in Landshut - November 30, 1958 in Vienna) was a German actor who played in more than 50 movies, among them Heimkehr and A Devil of a Woman.

Again, they fouled up. picked the starting lineups did one devil of a . in the United States and Canada and also released as a record album. The simulated game was announced by Jack Buck and Lindsey Nelson and set in Philadelphia's Shibe Park.

L. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, 2001, pg 120 Today, a spontoon (or espontoon, as it is referred to in the manual of arms) is carried by the drum major of the U.S. Army's Fife and Drum Corps, a ceremonial unit of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard).

The Doctor Is Sick is a 1960 novel by Anthony Burgess. According to his autobiography, Burgess composed the book in just six weeks. He wrote it after his return to England from Malaya in a burst of literary activity that also produced Devil of a State, A Clockwork Orange, The Right to an Answer and several other works.

A second edition was then published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983 with the controversial photograph removed. He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for Death in the High-Rise. His short story "Devil of a Boy" appears translated into English in Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan anthology, which was edited by Ellery Queen.

Harron called the hotel desk for assistance and was still conscious when the hotel manager came to his room. Not realizing he was seriously wounded, Harron joked with the manager that he was in a "devil of a fix" having shot himself. He initially refused to let the manager call an ambulance, only wanting to be examined by a local physician in his room. After a physician could not be found, Harron relented and agreed to allow the manager to call an ambulance.

He had formerly crafted the Royal Coat of Arms and a pair of flambeau pieces for the main entrance of the Fullerton Building built in 1924-28. Among his last works in Singapore was a pair of lions for the Bank of China Building, Singapore (1954). Probably his last commission was the stonework for the huge Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque in Brunei (completed 1958) which inspired the novel Devil of a State by Anthony Burgess. He died in 1963 in Italy at the age of 75.

So Robin threw the loaf onto the bridge and the dog chased it across the bridge, thus cheating the Devil of a human soul. Robin Ddu then returned to the pub to finish his drinking. In another version of this tale, it is a local hotelier who asks Robin to aid him in constructing a bridge and as payment, Robin was to take the soul of the first living person that crossed it. Robin Ddu or Black Robin the Magician, or more correctly Robin Ddu ap Siencyn Bledrydd of Anglesey, lived circa 1450.

Lawrence E. Babits (born June 22, 1943) is an American archaeologist with specific interests in military history, material culture, and battlefield and maritime archaeology. Babits is credited with highly accurate accounts of soldiers' combat experience during the 18th century, specifically during the Battle of Cowpens, a turning point in the American Revolutionary War. This is illustrated in his books Long, Obstinate and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse (coauthored with Joshua B. Howard) and A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Babits is currently a George Washington Distinguished Professor of Maritime Archaeology and History at East Carolina University.

Thomas Jevon (1652–1688) was an English playwright, and one of the first English Harlequins. He began his career as a dancing master, but worked his way onto the stage, and played leading low-comedy parts in London between 1673 and 1688. His brother-in-law was the English playwright and poet laureate Thomas Shadwell. Jevon's only published play, the farce The Devil of a Wife, or, a Comical Transformation (with a plot borrowed from a Philip Sidney story, and possibly some assistance from Shadwell), was performed in 1686 at Dorset Garden, where Jevon usually acted.

Apparitions is a BBC drama about Father Jacob Myers, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, played by Martin Shaw, who examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also performs exorcisms.Martin Shaw has a devil of a job in Apparitions , The Times. 8 November 2008 As he learns, Jacob's duties run deeper than just sending demons back to Hell; he later must prevent them all from escaping. Unlike most portrayals of exorcism and spirit possession in fiction, Apparitions is more religiously accurate and fact-based, incorporating the nature of demonic possession as described by the Church.

In 1886, Allingham's uncle, John Allingham (better known as Ralph Rollington), launched The New Boys' Paper penny weekly, in which Herbert published "Barrington's Fag", a "true tale of school life", initially under the pen name Herbert St Clair. In 1889, Herbert Allingham was named editor of The London Journal, publishing his own story "A Devil of a Woman" in 1893. In 1906, Herbert Allingham was recognised by The Amalgamated Press and began writing stories for Puck, The Jester, Comic Cuts, Chips and The Butterfly. By 1909, readers' enjoyment of Allingham's contrasting serials "Plucky Polly Perkins" and "Driven from Home" sent The Butterfly's sales figures soaring.

Burgess was an education officer at the Malay Teachers' Training College 1955 and 1958. After a brief period of leave in Britain during 1958, Burgess took up a further Eastern post, this time at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin College in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. Brunei had been a British protectorate since 1888, and was not to achieve independence until 1984. In the sultanate, Burgess sketched the novel that, when it was published in 1961, was to be entitled Devil of a State and, although it dealt with Brunei, for libel reasons the action had to be transposed to an imaginary East African territory similar to Zanzibar, named Dunia.

The Allegro begins with a theme in G major built around a quarter-eighth-eighth note motif. 21 measures of nonstop sixteenth- notes build from piano to a powerful forte as the piece arrives at a hemiola- infused G major restatement of the Introduction's opening fanfare. Instead of a development section as would be expected in traditional sonata form, a new theme is introduced, a vigorous fugue in which the piece returns to the opening key of G minor. In a letter to his good friend A. J. Jaeger ("Nimrod" of the Enigma Variations), Elgar referred to this section as a "devil of a fugue".

The tune is not an Irish one, but stems from the first line of an English song, The Bowman Prigg's Farewell. The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music (BUCEM) lists four single sheet copies with music, all tentatively dated c 1740, and there is another copy in the Julian Marshal collection at Harvard. However, the tune To the Hundreds of Drury I write is in the ballad opera The Devil of a Duke, 1732, Air No 4 Bowman Prig is mentioned in song No 22 of the ballad opera The Fashionable Lady, 1730, but this may not be a reference to the song. "Bowman Prigg" is a cant term for a pick-purse.

Roche is perhaps best known for once excusing an absence in Parliament thus: "Mr. Speaker, it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird." This quotation was referenced by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary in his definition of ubiquity: > In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood—not even by Sir > Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at > once unless he is a bird. But Roche was not uttering a malapropism here, he was quoting, and quoting correctly. The line appears in Jevon’s play, The Devil of a Wife, as follows: :Wife: I cannot be in two places at once.

Throughout the years Babits has published a number of works including the book, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens which describes the Battle of Cowpens that took place during the American Revolutionary War. It was won by the Americans on January 17, 1781 in Cowpens, South Carolina through the use of original tactical maneuvers. Babits gives estimations of troop numbers for both sides and details the events of the battle. The book was the winner of a Distinguished Book Award in 1998 from the Army Historical Foundation as well as the honorable mention book award from the Fraunces Tavern Museum/Sons of the Revolution. Babits’ most recent book is entitled Long, Obstinate and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

Ballantine paperback edition Devil of a State is a 1961 novel by Anthony Burgess based on his experience living and working in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of the Southeast Asian sultanate of Brunei, on the island of Borneo, in 1958-59. It is the fourth of what has been called Burgess's "exotic novels", the others being Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East. For libel reasons, the action was set on an imaginary East African caliphate called "Dunia" and a UN representative substituted for the British adviser. In his autobiography Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1987) Burgess wrote:cited in: Geoffrey C. Gunn, New World Hegemony in the Malay World, The Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville NJ and Asmara/Eritrea, First printing 2000, , p. 143.

At the conclusion of one of Cuzzoni's arias at a performance of the original run, a man in the gallery called out "Damn her: she has got a nest of nightingales in her belly", while one aristocratic patron wrote in her programme beside Cuzzoni's name "She is a devil of a singer". However, some members of the London audience had become fiercely partisan in favouring either Bordoni or Cuzzoni and disliking the other and at the performance of Admeto on 4 April 1727 with members of the royal family present, elements of the audience were extremely unruly, hissing and interrupting the performance with cat-calls when the "rival" to their favourite was performing, causing public scandal. Cuzzoni issued a public apology to the royal family through one of her supporters: Francesca Cuzzoni, who created the role of Antigona. These sort of disturbances continued however, climaxing that June in a performance at the Academy of an opera by Giovanni Bononcini, Astianatte.

Phillpotts in old age Phillpotts' character was of the type that determined never to give up on a fight and he persisted in applying his standards. There were many ways that unscrupulous clergy could abuse the Episcopal patronage system, but: > so long as Henry Phillpotts was Bishop of Exeter they avoided the Diocese of > Exeter, for they knew that this doughty fighter would fight them to the end > if he smelt something improper, whatever the cost to his pocket, however > unfavourable the publicity and whatever the inadequacy of his own legal > standing. (Chadwick II, 1997, p 212) He was: > ... a genuinely religious man with his religion concealed behind porcupine > quills, he constantly quarrelled in the House of Commons, exposing > opponents' follies with consummate ability, a tongue and eyes of flame, an > ugly tough face and vehement speech. (Chadwick I, 1997, p 217) The bishop's strong views and lack of inhibitions in promoting them at times gained him many enemies in key places: > That devil of a Bishop who inspired more terror than ever Satan did...of > whom, however, it must be said that he is a gentleman.