In this case, it exploded against us and raised the very old dickens.

"Will I go up afther it?" "How the dickens 'd you git down again?" asked Glover.

"It's having the dickens of a time.

"You frightened the dickens out of me, Verslun," he cried.

They play the dickens with a fellow's wind.

" "Thenhow the dickens" "I shall be coming back on the train that reaches this station at two o'clock Saturday morning.

I hope the dickens they'll do it.