deevil's

"Help, Paddy; this big deevil's got me," yelled Sandy, who had been struck by a Turk.

The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell

"He's an ill man that blackgairds his wife, altho 'she were the deevil's sister," says Mysie; an 'even Ribekka gae her moo a dicht, an' whispered to hersel ', "Eh, aye, that's a troo sayin'. "

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

But ye ken, my friend, I'm speaking to you as a brither; it was an unco'-like business for an elder, not only to gang till a play, which is ane of the deevil's rendevouses, but to gan there in a state of liquor, making yourself a world's wonder, and you an elder of our kirk!

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

It's a dark uncanny loan, forby that the kirk has aye had an ill name since the days o 'James the Saxt and the deevil's cantrips played therein when the Queen was on the seas; and as for Tod's house, it was in the mirkest end, and was little liked by some that kenned the best.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

And wha the deevil's this? '' he continued, turning to me --- ` ` Some gillravager that ye hae listed, I daur say.

Rob Roy 1887

` ` It was that deevil's buckie, Callum Beg, '' said Alick; ` ` I saw him whisk away through amang the reises. ''

The Waverley 1877

This honest, straightforward little story made father so angry that he exclaimed with heavy, foreboding emphasis: "The very deevil's in that boy!"

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

Saxt and the deevil's cantrips played therein when the Queen was on the seas; and as for Tod's house, it was in the mirkest end, and was little liked by some that kenned the best.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

It's a dark uncanny loan, forby that the kirk has aye had an ill name since the days o 'James the Saxt and the deevil's cantrips played therein when the Queen was on the seas; and as for Tod's house, it was in the mirkest end, and was little liked by some that kenned the best.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"Ye son o 'a deevil's soo!" cried the woman; "I s 'hae amen's o' ye for this, gien I sud ro'st my ain hert to get it."

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864