SPEAK OF THE DEVIL • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Speak of the devil

... much interested, there is a quivering in his face which I don't remember in past times. He seems to have got older and thinner, all on a sudden. He shouts (which he never used to do) when he threatens sinners at sermon-time. Being in dreadful earnest about our souls, he is of course obliged to speak of the devil; but he never used to hit the harmless pulpit cushion with his fist as he does now. Nobody seems to have seen these things but me; and now I have noticed them what ought I to do? I don't know; I am certain of nothing, except what I have put ...

— The Legacy of Cain • Wilkie Collins

... "Speak of the Devil," whispered La Fosse in my ear, and, moved by the words and by the significance of his glance, I turned ...

— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini