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  • Mackshane, stepping forward, hemmed a good while, in order to clear his throat, and, before he began, Morgan accosted him thus: “Doctor Mackshane, look in my face — look in the face of an honest man, who abhors a false witness as he abhors the tevil, and Cot be judge between you and me.”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Vy the tevil don't beobles zay when there are things the madder at home?

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • 'Now, who the tevil has been mettling again with my babers?

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • 'Vy the tevil didn't you zay zo? demanded the manager.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, ’He hears with ear?

    Act I. Scene I. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • "Ach, you young tevil my machine to sdeal!" he cried, tumbling into the car.

    The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

  • Handel probably uses his favorite exclamation, 'Vat te tevil I care!' and consumes the recherche wines and rare viands with undiminished gusto.

    The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878

  • “Ah! I always knew you were a fery tevil,” he cried, “and I shall now let you know that I am Beelzebub, the prince of de tevils!” and, dragging her to the open window, was just on the point of pitching her into the street when, in every sense of the word, she recanted.

    The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878

  • Put her laty must forgif her, for it is a long tale, not like anything you 'll pe in ta way of peliefing; and aalso, it'll pe put ta tassel to another long tale which tears ta pag of her heart, and makes her feel a purning tevil in ta pocket of her posom.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • Mackshane, stepping forward, hemmed a good while, in order to clear his throat, and, before he began, Morgan accosted him thus: "Doctor Mackshane, look in my face -- look in the face of an honest man, who abhors a false witness as he abhors the tevil, and Cot be judge between you and me."

    The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746

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