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Example sentences for "devil take"

  • But, devil take me, I am as hungry as the beasts!

  • Devil take me if I understand a word of all this!

  • Mollendorf is to go to Paris, where he will be a nonentity, while in his present office he is a power in the land--Devil take me, but it seems to me that we are all a pack of asses!

  • Devil take me, but I did make a mess of it when I slapped him on the shoulder that night.

  • Yes, that is--devil take it--my opinion as well.

  • And the bull-necked man now called out, "Now just you wait--devil take you!

  • I assure you that my friendship for Roger endowed me with a timely eloquence that I am not equal to nowadays; and, devil take it, in saying what I did I spoke in good earnest, and I believe all I said.

  • Devil take it if I can make anything of it!

  • But you play a dangerous game with me; and, if I did not want to give pain to my cousin Mateo, devil take it!

  • Devil take them, he would come when he was ready.

  • Yes, devil take him, if we could only make him shut up shop!

  • Things are not altogether pleasant in this establishment--devil take it all!

  • Who else could have told them Devil take it, sir, who could have told them except yourself?

  • This fellow seemed prodigious intimate with Diana, devil take him!

  • Ye are a mad, scatter-brained fellow to play such a thrick upon us, devil take ye!

  • You're a good fellow, and you don't lecture a man as Tracy does, devil take him!

  • And your steward's gone away somewhere, devil take him, what do you want me to do?

  • Devil take it, if you want equality of rights you can have it.

  • He snatches at the back of a chair; the chair creaks and breaks] Devil take it, how I'm smashing up your furniture!

  • Devil take them; let us walk in the park," answered Porthos, "for the sake of digestion.

  • Devil take it," he muttered to himself, "don't let me betray my secrets to a man not inclined to entertain them.

  • Devil take it, Pelle, how are we going to pay every one, Pelle?

  • Master Andres, as at last they bustled out; "devil take me, but those are the chaps!

  • Megesen--no, Pegestik--devil take me if I can make head or tail of it.

  • Devil take me, if I didn't think it was Adam and Eve stealing apples in the Garden of Eden.

  • Devil take me, but I've half a mind to ship for the Arctic myself next spring," said Rudolf.

  • Be quiet, devil take you, and leave me in peace--do you hear?

  • Well, then, devil take it, you know what you have to do, I suppose?

  • Devil take you, am I obliged to sit here and give you all sorts of information about that.

  • Devil take them,' echoed the cockatoo, who had climbed up again on the table, and was looking complacently at his master.

  • Devil take you, Ashton, why's there no fire in the hall?

  • Devil take you, Sydie, why can't you write common English?

  • Devil take it, you have an awkward way of playing harlequin when you're not wanted!

  • Devil take me if it's at all clear to me!

  • Devil take him, he should have been here an hour ago.

  • I want to talk to you about-- Devil take it, what is it I want to talk about?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devil take" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about his; above said; bring myself; devil take; devilish good; done been; first visit; forming drugs; girls were; great blessing; hired girl; many proofs; military observer; movable types; planetary motion; remained till; room with; several specimens; she came; stir until; universal proposition; whose territory; would have been very