Divils

Father Hogan, especially in casting out divils, and a portly, good-looking man too, only he had a large rubicon nose, which people said he got by making over free with the cratur in sacret. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I might as well marry a whirlwind as one of thim wild divils. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They had a great contempt for the farrier because he fought them, and he used to go about the village complaining of them and their "tratement" of him, "the little divils, spoilin 'the pace of the whole neighbourhood." ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)

The poor divils were crowded like cattle on cars, and it was one of the hot smothering nights. ❋ William H. Armstrong (N/A)

I am in zee wood, an 'zee divils they do not see me, an' I pick off un, deux, trois! ❋ Ottwell Binns (N/A)

"Oh, but it's little divils yez are, the lot of ye!" cried Kitty as she separated them. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)

Said my erstwhile friend and bunkie "Hickey" Flynn: "Av coorse, Moiles will be after sendin 'a message to Lazelle to bring the Ateenth fut up at once, and thin the smashin' we will be after givin 'them rid divils will make a wake look sick." ❋ John A. Hill (N/A)

"Look at thim divils retratin 'with their backs facin' us," was an Irish remark about the Germans that made his fellows roar. ❋ James Alexander Kilpatrick (N/A)

Irish Fusiliers who had lost his regiment, met another soldier on the road and begged for the loan of his rifle "just to get a last pop at the divils." ❋ James Alexander Kilpatrick (N/A)

But whin those divils began reelin 'at me, I had to trait thim with scarrun and contimpt. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

"The thing that makes me mad is that the German divils who exploded the bomb all got away," exclaimed the sergeant bitterly. ❋ Paul Greene Tomlinson (N/A)

Would you be willing to swear an oath, now—a terrible, fearful oath would send your soul to the divils in hell if you was lying? ❋ Unknown (1922)

Now, a scapular would keep all the divils in hell from one; an’ if you’d—”39 ❋ Unknown (1921)

"I think the divils are suspicious," he whispered. ❋ Unknown (1918)

There's only wan thing to do, Misther Schultz, an 'that is to tackle the divils before we're overwhelmed be the weight av numbers. ❋ Unknown (1918)

"That's the very thing the crawling divils are terrified they might get." ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)

May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. ❋ John Millington (1911)

He’s a score of divils in him the way it’s well nigh certain he will wed Pegeen. ❋ John Millington (1911)

(He sits down with his hand to his head) There was one time I seen ten scarlet divils letting on they’d cork my spirit in a gallon can; and one time I seen rats as big as badgers sucking the life blood from the butt of my lug; but I never till this day confused that dribbling idiot with a likely man. ❋ John Millington (1911)

Terence, as he stood leaning against a picket fence that bordered the street, "savin 'the presence of the naygurs and thim red divils wid blankets an' scowls as wud turrn the milk sour in the pail." ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)