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-- Devin GordonCelebrities Behaving SketchilyIt all might've seemed like devil-may-careness last week, but wait till the next time these folks have to go up in front of a co-op board.
NEWSMAKERS 2007
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There was a dawning humour waking in his eyes, a hint of the bygone years 'devil-may-careness.
Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore
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More, there returned to me some of the old devil-may-careness which before had served me well.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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This reluctance to be supposed effeminate was a characteristic of the age which caused many acts of injustice to be committed in order that the reputation for stern, slashing, devil-may-careness should be established, and many a fine fellow did violence to his whole nature by the desire to be considered a desperado.
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892
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