How to use "devil" in a sentence

John McCarthy said later, 'It looked more like the work of a devil than of a man.' And Mrs Prater, who looked through the window, said, 'I can never forget it if I live to be a hundred.'

It was truly the work of a devil.

The devil had suddenly decided to be kind, and she did not know what to think.

I remembered Mrs Danvers smiling at me, like a devil

"What in the blue devil is going on here?"

Carlton Dombey felt as though he had been swallowed alive and was trapped now in the devil's gut.

"What the devil is wrong with the engineers? Why can't they correct the problem?"

"He's trying to figure out who the devil we are," Elliot said

People called me 'a lazy little devil', and said, 'go and do your work.' They did not know I was ill with liver disease