Do we say just deserts or just desserts

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And I urge you, with all the earnestness it is possible for a man to use when the life of a fellow creature is at stake, not to be led into a trapnot to play the part this cunning criminal Hill has designed for youin the sacrifice of the life of an innocent man for the purpose of saving himself from his just deserts.

JUST DESERTS XXIV BETTY GOES COASTING XXV

" CHAPTER XXIII JUST DESERTS "Who," demanded Betty, "is Marshall Morgan?"

He was wrong; there were pride and fierceness enough in his heart, mingled with that sense of nothingness of rank, money, chance and change, yea, death itself, of all but Love;mingled even with that intense belief that his sorrows were but his just deserts, which now possessed all his soul.

She was not offended, for if she considered that her self-denying journeys to the post office were meeting with less than their just deserts, she was not a woman to insist upon gratitude where gratitude was not freely given.

Oct. 18.] that crime might be impartially punished without any distinction of high or low, rich or poor; that all who had contrived or abetted the late war might receive their just deserts; and that whosoever should speak or act in favour of Charles, before that prince had been acquitted of shedding innocent blood, should incur the penalties of treason.

He was detected, for many both openly and secretly meddled constantly with all he was doing; and if the body-guard had had even the slightest good will toward their aged sovereign, the conspirator would immediately have met his just deserts.

Lest it be thought we have an overweening love for our subject, beyond its just deserts, let us add here that the State has, in its geographical position, most extraordinary advantages, which, at present, are little known and of little worth, but which the future must inevitably develop.

She would not spare Frank any longer, but would give him his just deserts.

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Do we say   just deserts   or  just desserts