[Fr.], play the deuce.

"What the deuce do you mean?

But at the head of the gulch, on one of the largest pine-trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie-knife.

"What the deuce do you suppose I care about his octoroon daughters?" interrupted Mr. Bell, impatiently.

"Yes, but" "That's when he slipped the six of diamonds out of sight and exposed the deuce of spades.

" "No, not really; but the fall bruised my knee rather badly and gave me a deuce of a shake up.

We'd gone out the old Bullyvard Raspail a deuce of a way, and Napoleon One showed no signs of stoppin' them horses, and I didn't see no cemetery.

" "Sir Magnus is kicking up a deuce of a row because you're not there.

WHAT THE DEUCE ARE YOU LARFING AT?" Recruit.

What the deuce could it have mattered to him where it was dumped, when he had done with it?" Thorndyke chuckled softly.

And a dozen shirts, too, with 'Beulah' pinned on one of themhow the deuce does the dear girl suppose I am to carry away such a stock of linen, without even a horse to ease me of a bundle?

He just raised the very deuce on the way down to New York.

"What the deuce do you suppose that means, Jack?" "I'm not supposing," replied Howland indifferently.

Her father always had it in his head, that she was to be taught the deuce-and-all of education.

Why, they all tease him there!the deuce of a coat!

And I'm convincedno, don't contradict me; I tell you, I won't stand it I'm convinced that this whole mess of mine is a plot of those rascals;I'm as certain of it as if they'd told me!' 'For what end?' 'How the deuce can I tell?

But winter has come, and they both have strayed Away from the throbbing wave He finds 'twas only the deuce she played, She finds that he played the knave.

One of the soldiers on guard, without understanding the meaning of the words, heard the Commandant pacing up and down, and muttering several times, "What the deuce can he want?" Half an hour afterwards the Adjutant-Major returned.

Now a space is opened for the king that covers the deuce, but the king has meantime been covered by an insignificant but unmanageable four-spot, and cannot be reached.

But, then the situation I decry, But crying's uselesswho the deuce will heed us?

Mr. Faulkner has the honor to announce that an adaptation by Mr. Cribbs of M. de Jongleur's opera bouffe La petite Maison du Roi, entitled King Lewis on the lewis'what the deuce does that mean?"