blue-devil

“George Custer, and the White Raja, to say nothing of my beloved mentor, Dr Arnold, and my old guv'nor (who did end his days in a blue-devil factory, bless him).”

Flashman and the Mountain of Light

“Since then we'd been on civil-sneer terms, for the guv'nor's sake, but since he'd recently been carted away again to the blue-devil factory to have the booze bogies chased out of his brain, Judy was devoting her time to being Elspeth's companion - oh, we were a conventional little menage, sure enough.”

Flashman's Lady

“He kept turning and crying out to Carmichael-Smith - it reminded me somehow of how my old guv'nor had wept and pleaded when I saw him off for the last time to the blue-devil factory in the country where he died bawling with delirium tremens.”

Flashman In The Great Game

“He kept turning and crying out to Carmichael-Smith — it reminded me somehow of how my old guv'nor had wept and pleaded when I saw him off for the last time to the blue-devil factory in the country where he died bawling with delirium tremens.”

Flashman In The Great Game

“He loves to think he suffers, and keeps a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere, like Paracelsus's black dog.”

Among My Books First Series

“I then told him all my mishaps in Sorombo, as well as of the "blue-devil" frights that had seized all my men.”

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

“There now, this cursed, gloomy, blue-devil day, you are going to a party of choice spirits --”

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham