On the stairs he turned to them with a countenance which depicted ill humor and said: "May the deuce take it, but all these disturbances must occur at a time when we have in Jastrzeb such lovely ladies.
Why the deuce should she weep over a man whom she never saw in her life?
Deuce take me if I did not fancy you killed by one of those dogs of Aucas; ten minutes ago I was talking about it to Lopez.
Yes, deuce take me if you are not, though the bomberos generally are considered sorry fellows.
Who the deuce has lighted fires on those scarped points, and for what object?
She was next-door neighbour to my old dad's cottage, and she'd a deuce of a knack of fondling on you without so much as touching a button of your coat.
He was a sailor once more, and had a deuce of a set-to with some Lascars.
Governor says I'll only make them worse if I try; calls me a scatter-brain; I assure you he's in a deuce of a wax.
It was child's play for Peter and me to go up that trellis, but it was the deuce and all for Blenkiron.
No doubt they saw the big figure in uniform and thought he was the deuce of a staff swell who wanted solitude.
How the deuce a different affair when just what the man himself confesses is that, in spite of all the chatter of the prigs and pedants, there's no really established ground for treating it as anything but the same?
And then before Lord John could reply: "What the deuce is the matter with her?
I suppose you understand English,' added he, 'by this time, or the deuce is in it.
The deuce is in the girl; yet she seems in earnest, looks at me with the good faith and simplicity of a sister who feels even more than she expresses, and is certainly one of the loveliest creatures I ever laid eyes on!
If you had shot that specter the other night there would have been the deuce to pay.
The gentlemen, who numbered ten this time, bowed to their debtor, evidently wondering why the deuce they troubled to be polite to an old man who kept them out of their money.
They were a scrim-shanking lot on the Board--he had had to pull them round one by one--the deuce of a tug getting this thing through!
Of the same class, but with more true artistic feeling and treatment than the preceding, we give the Deuce of Clubs, from a pack with London Cries (Fig.
The having charge of a stone valued at fifteen thousand pounds, and intended as a gift for the Queen of England, is a deuce of a responsibility," said he.
In hopeful moments he conjured up visions of the deuceto pay.
