deil's

"Aye, weel, deil's the penny ye'll get from me," snaps he.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

"It's the deil's own night," agreed the innkeeper, "black as pitch and blowing smoke, but the snow will be helping us too," and then we sat before the fire all silent for a while, the goodwife busy with her infusions and brews.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

I spoke with much impressiveness but, to my chagrin, instead of the congratulations that were my due on such an occasion, she looked concerned and almost angry, and cried, "The very deil's in it!"

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

"I'll mak 'it up in London," he said at length, "but it'll be the deil's own job."

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

` ` The deil's in the body for strength and bitterness! '' were the first words that escaped him, which he followed up with an apology for the accident that had given rise to their disagreement,

The Black Dwarf 1898

--- I cannot get the words of that cankered auld cripple deil's buckie out o 'my head --- the least thing makes me dread some ill news.

The Black Dwarf 1898

'I dinna ken anythin' about sic folk, 'retorted Mr McIntosh, piously,' the deil's ain bairns, wha wull gang into the pit of

Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

"If that's all you have to complain of, Alan, it's no such great affair," said I. "And it sets me ill to be complaining, whatever," said he, "and me but new out of yon deil's haystack."

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

"The deil's in the woman for marrying and giving in marriage!" he said.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

I dinna ken what spring the fairy played, but this I ken weel, that Wullie had nae great goo o 'his performance; so he sits thinkin' to himsel ':' This maun be a deil's get, Auld Waughorn himsel 'may come to rock his son's cradle, and play me some foul prank;' so he catches the bairn by the cuff o 'the neck, and whupt him into the fire, bagpipes and

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887