Sentence:  I look across the long grass, lush with disintegrating corpses, and imagine that Prussia may have laid hold of you for other pursuits than philology. Perhaps it is you whose machine-gun taps every night like a <WSD>devil-ridden</WSD> typewriter against this particular area of our parapet? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Possessed by a devil or devils.