Thesaurus / deuce
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Once even a blue bean (a bullet) made sad work with my head, and my fist has got a deuce of a smashing.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.A butcher's boy, running against a gentleman with his tray, made him exclaim, "The deuce take the tray!"
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThe deuce of it is that, personally, I love this man; his eye speaks to me, I am pleased in his society.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe deuce fly away with literature, for the basest sport in creation.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou're mistaken about that, madame, for his infatuation for the mistress doesn't keep him from playing the deuce with her maid.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEProbably few persons who allow themselves the enjoyment of that rather jocular expletive, the deuce!
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANIf you wouldn't mind tidying up, some day—I left my papers in a deuce of a mess.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKEAs we were coming along, we heard a dreadful row outside, and saw a large body of troops bolting off in a deuce of a hurry.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGIt was all very well to tell you I'd start on my visit—but how the deuce was I to start without a penny in the world?
THE AWKWARD AGEHENRY JAMESAnd they have to manage like the deuce to keep themselves in grub from one remittance day to the next.
THE HIDDEN PLACESBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRWORDS RELATED TO DEUCE
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