LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen, And sair wi' his love he did deave me: I said there was naething I hated like men; The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me, The deuce gae wi'm to believe me!

LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen, And sair wi' his love he did deave me: I said there was naething I hated like men; The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me, The deuce gae wi'm to believe me!

I want to see her, you want to see herthat's the deuce of it.

"This is a deuce of a day for any one to be out," began the man of the house.

That I throw but deuce-ace

"I went and sat among 'em all at my old 33 years desk yester morning; and deuce take me if I had not yearnings at leaving all my old pen-and-ink fellows, merry sociable lads, at leaving them in the Lurch, fag, fag, fag.

There's a deuce of hearts you could play up and a three of spades, and then you could go back to crossing the colors again, right away, you know, and you'd have that whole line running up to the king ready to put into that space.

"The first time I went to war," I answered absently, having to play up the ace and deuce of diamonds.

Twice he missed it; the first time he frowned, but the second he uttered an emphatic, "Deuce take it!" Helen and Amy looked at each other with a mutual smile and exclamation, "He knows some English, then!"

" Then he was asked as to a variety of solids and liquids; and the man shook his head, intimating that he could go a deuce of a way, but that there were bounds even to human knowledge.

"How the deuce did all this occur so early?

"Just what we had to have," says he, "an' I'm supposed to pay the tolls; Nine dollars an' a half forsay, what the deuce are camisoles?

" "The deuce," said I. "Sabotage!

What the deuce is he doing with a mother in Essex at all?

Our money’s all spent, to the deuce went it!

" "Besides," added Tommy, "it would be the deuce of a day, and it's a long time since any of us had a good day, eh, Joyce?" "Three years," said Joyce quietly.

"There's someone coming round the point in a deuce of a hurry," he remarked.

"Heh! Jean, the deuce!"

What the deuce would you have done on a campaign where you were obliged to shoot, to strike down with a sabre and to kill?

"Deuce take me, cried sir Charles, whispering Townshend, if I ever saw any thing so handsome.

He said: "What the deuce do you mean by killing my pig?" "Your pig ?"

That is, how the deuce did you know I did?" floundered the trapped parent.

Suppose that through some circumstance over which he has no control a Michigan man was made for a Russian girlhow the deuce is she to get him?" "That's all nonsense, Henry," said Mrs. Upton, impatiently.

" "What the deuce is this?" asked Upton.

Translated from the German by Huntley Paterson. (Pub. abroad as The deuce) © 24May28, AI-11372; 3Aug28, A1082910.

Should be flute-douce.

Anyhow, the henbane has long been in repute as a plant possessed of mysterious attributes, and Douce quotes the subjoined passage:"Henbane, called insana, mad, for the use thereof is perillous, for if it be eate or dronke, it breedeth madness, or slowe lykeness of sleepe."

For instance, from the lengthy story which appears as the hundred and first tale in Mr. Douce's edition of the Gesta, he selects but one scene of action, yet it is the making of Macbethone would almost suppose that this was the germ-thought which kindled his furious fancy, preceding his discovery of the Macbeth tradition as related in Holinshed's Chronicle.

I am sure I shall never regret coming to India, and it will be something to dream about when I am a douce Olivia-sit-by-the-fire.

"O comme tu es douce!

Douce David Deans himself, in his best light-blue Sunday coat, with broad metal buttons, and waistcoat and breeches of the same.

He was a douce, quiet man, as all the country knew, and here he was like old Nick at the carlin's dance, hobbling around and waving his drink above his head.

These had their origin, we can hardly tell with certainty how, or when, or where; although the subject has enlisted the investigating labors of such accomplished scholars and profound antiquaries as Douce and Ottley in England, and Peignot and Langlois in France.

Velours se dit d'un son doux remplaçant par erreur un son dur: "Elle était-z-à la campagne" pour "Elle était à," etc. À l'origine, ce mot velours s'employait par opposition à cuir, parce que souvent le premier donnait l'idée d'une chose plus douce que le second.

DOUX, DOUCE, agréable.

CONSONNE DOUCE, muette facile à prononcer.

ÉNIGME, f., chose difficile à comprendre. ENJOUÉ, E qui a de la gaieté douce et habituelle.

Ce que Céphas n'a pu faire, Marie l'a faite; elle a su tirer la vie, la parole douce et pénétrante, du tombeau vide.

Bicot, marin d'eau douce.

Young Barnabie FitzPatrick, heir to the new barony of Upper Ossory, was one of these, and the descendent of a long line of turbulent McGillapatricks, grew up there into a douce-mannered English-seeming youth, the especial friend and chosen companion of the mild young prince.

Elle a deux sources d'eau douce, dont l'une est couverte des eaux de mer quand le vent de Ponent souffle un peu fort.

The fruit of the Spirit is joy, peace, not'" "Upon my word (said Harrington, laughing), I shall presently begin to fancy that Douce Davie Deans has turned infidel.

Forgive my laughing; but it does so remind me of Douce Davie Deans.

Poussons cette douce Ivresse Jusqu'au milieu de la nuit, Et n'écoutons que la tendresse D'un charmant vis-à-vis. II.

The swineherd now enters with the object of wooing the imprisoned damsel, whom he releases from the tree, Maudlin and Douce retiring the while to watch his success, which is small.

Another Cambridge piece is the Silvanus, a MS. of which is in the Bodleian (Douce 234).

La nuit est pleine de silence, Et dans une étrange lueur, Et dans une douce indolence La lune dort comme une fleur.

Others are old words like thole and nesh and lew and mense and foison and fash and douce, which have never been accepted into the standard English, or have long since vanished from it, in spite of their excellence and ancient history, and in spite of the fact that they have long been in current use in various districts.

Dour Obstinate " Dur. Douce Mild " Doux.

Et, d'ailleurs, votre situation est si tranquille et si douce!