divil

Ye croaking owld divil, is that the tune you taught your son?

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

‘Where the divil are the folk gone?’ said Latimer, waking up to the fact of their absence, and looking round.

Wessex Tales 2006

"What the divil is a Kauffmann?" the major asked impatiently.

The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Where the divil is the back door, I wonder, for the one in front is no good at all?

The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Kirk Munroe 1890

'Where the divil are the folk gone?' said Latimer, waking up to the fact of their absence, and looking round.

Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

_ There's what you may call the divil rebuking sin -- and now we talk of the like, as I've heard my _mudther_ say, that he had need of a long spoon that ates wid the divil -- so I'll look to that in time.

Tales and Novels — Volume 08 Maria Edgeworth 1808

The devil lived, but waxed livid when called divil; but evil is not live, and denim is not mined.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2 1976

Wan day on'y tho '-- 'tis th' divil's own cuk he is.

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

“What th 'divil's the use whin I haave a praycher t' m'silf.”

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

'Tis th 'divil's own way av showin' wan's sintimints. "

The Flaw in the Sapphire Charles M. Snyder