deils

‘I shall never refuse a fair offer,’ said the poverty-stricken guest; ‘and I will say that for the English, if they were deils, that they are a ceeveleesed people to gentlemen that are under a cloud.’

Redgauntlet 2008

Madame started, while Archie murmured ‘Puir deils.’

Madame Midas 2003

Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o 'the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave and hirsled round by deils, lowed up like a brunstane spunk and fell in ashes to the grund; the thunder followed, peal on dirling peal, the rairing rain upon the back

Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Sadie Kate has been acting like a little deil -- do they have feminine deils?

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896

Madame started, while Archie murmured 'Puir deils.'

Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

An 'at that moment the Lord's ain hand out o' the heevens struck the Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o 'the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave and hirselled round by deils, lowed up like a brunstane spunk and fell in ashes to the grund; the thunder followed, peal on dirling peal, the rairing rain upon the back

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

Mrs. Flockhart, '' replied the ensign, ` ` we're young blude, ye ken; and young saints, auld deils. ''

The Waverley 1877

If there's folk ashore, there's folk in the sea -- deid they may be, but they're folk whatever; and as for deils, there's nane that's like the sea deils.

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o 'the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave and hirsled round by deils, lowed up like

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

There's no sae muckle harm in the land deils, when a's said and done.

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872