Deil a fear o' me," said he, "an my mither disna pit her finger in the pie.
I'll get but little penny-fee, for his uncle, auld Nippie Milnwood, has as close a grip as the deil himsell.
Deil a word said Leddy Carline tae me for a gey while, as she vrought an' vrought tae gar the saumon quit his neuk.
The deil take sic a goovernment, ond the deiltak sic a coontry, ond the deil tak the naygurs!
The meenister in holy kirk wad discipline a puir body, ond the deil wad be to play.
I am nae seer gin ye be Edie Ochiltree o' Carrick's company in the Forty-twa, or gin ye be the deil in his likeness!
It's e'en queer that ye heard it now, for deil ane o' the servants durst hae spoken o't had the auld Countess been living.
As sune as the keel o' the coble touches the sand, deil a bit mair will the lazy fisher loons work, but the wives maun kilt their coats, and wade into the surf to tak the fish ashore.
Na, an ye dinna do that, the cost shall be on your own risk, for the deil a plack or bawbee will I pay for them, till I hae a satisfaction that they are as they ought to be.
I ken to the contrary, suppin' brimstone broth wi' the deil lang afore the time o' Adam and Eve.
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that 'the deil tinkles at the lykewake' of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse.
Deil be in me but I wad dot mysell, an it werena in better hands.
But probably the youthful fisher of the twentieth century cares neither for deil nor for fairy.
Deil take the ditty trading loon Wad gar the water ca' his wheel, And drift his dyes and poisons down By fair Tweed side at Ashiesteel.
Deil but I hae a guid mind to gie them baith mair o't yet!
His observation on the large measure which the Scottish allowed of their land, in comparison to the computation of their money, was readily answered by Evan with the old jest, 'The deil take them wha have the least pint stoup.
Deil be in me but I'll put this het gad down her throat!
The best blessing they wared on him was, "Deil scowp wi' Redgauntlet!
My head never settled since I lost him; and if I say another word about it, deil a bar will I have the heart to play the night.
To the black deil wi' a' that wad harm ye or mar ye, ye bonny pair!
If that God give, the deildaurna reave= (bereave).
If the deil were dead, folk would do little for= 15 =God's sake.
When aince thedeil gets in the point o' his finger, he will soon have in his haill hand.
I didna think the muckle horned deil himsell could hae set up his mou' to the heaven, and braggit and blasphemed in sic a way.
They hae been a wicked and degenerate race, and aye the langer the waur, till they hae reached the utmost bounds o' earthly wickedness; and it's time the deil were looking after his ain.
But ye are now in the place where you should be; and deil speed the coward!
But if ye winna grant me that wee wee while, when the bread of a haill family depends on it, ye're waur than ony deil that's yammering and cursing i' the bottomless pit.
Durie cried, "The deil is hounding his tykes on me!
At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the fog was lifted; but whiles, I thocht that if the Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it whether we would or no.
It's no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi' a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin' on yer sail for his ain purpose.
If the Deildid have any luggage aboord the ship, I'm thinkin' it was nane ither than that same!
They say that, once on a time, the vera deil himsel wadna keep company wi' ane o' them, till he had first got the puir man to wash himsel.
I dinna see 'at the deil sud hae 't a' his ain gait, as gien we war a' fleyt at him.
But I maun awa' an' luik efter my lines, or atween the deil an' the dogfish my lord'll fare ill.
Deil a bit o' the expense cam intil the calcalation!
They tell me 'at his mither made him ower to the deil afore he cam to the light; and sae, aye as his birthday comes roun', Sawtan gets the pooer ower him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
