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OE Blickling Homilies xv. 173 Petrus..deoflum bebead þæt hie of deofolseocum mannum utferdon.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 62 It was wisely cauteled..why Sara..should be more Devil-haunted then any of the possessed Men.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 20 The Asse..is..phrased with many epithites..as, slow..ydle, deuill-haired.

1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. clxxxviii He may..regale his..Devil-ridden Mind.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 108 Men become priest-ridden or devil-ridden.

a1849 T. L. Beddoes Death's Jest-bk. iv. iii, in Poems (1851) II. 117 Ha! I am Devil-inspired: out with you, ye fool's thoughts!

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xciv. 142 You tell me, doubt is Devil -born. View more context for this quotation

1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. v Scorn and hate..are devil born things.

1888 Catholic Press 16 June 125/1 A devil-inspired cult.

1898 R. Kipling in Spectator 2 July 15/2 Afraid of the devil-haunted beach of noises.

1899 Daily News 20 Sept. 3/3 Then came the famous devil-possessed district.

1906 R. Whiteing Ring in New ix. 59 The devil-driven and purposeful way in which people do most things in this part of the world.

1922 W. B. Yeats Trembling of Veil ii. viii. 108 The only Young Ireland politician who had music and personality, though rancorous and devil-possessed.

1926 M. Leinster Dew on Leaf ii. i Jack is lonely, wretched, devil-driven.

1971 German Q. 44 153 These treatises deal with man's personal devil-inspired bent for vice.

2016 N. Rust Patrick Griffin's last Breakfast 11 The creature then..gave Patrick the briefest devil-eyed stare.