He thus describes the change the British outfitters made in her: When I had last seen her she was the most beautiful little craft, both in hull and rigging, that ever delighted the eyes of a sailor; but the dock yard riggers and carpenters had fairly bedeviled her at least so far as appearances went.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
The population growth in the backward countries, unhampered by birth control and rocketing upward due to new sanitation, new health measures, and the conquest of a score of diseases that have bedeviled man down through the centuries, was fantastic.
"Black Man's Burden"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
"Hain't I got a license ter travel ther highway without bein' follered an' bedeviled," she demanded angrily, and the two youths seemed at first too abashed for speech.
"A Pagan of the Hills"
Charles Neville Buck