duyvel

Nor did he stop here, but made a hideous rout among the inventions and expedients of his learned predecessor, rooting up his patent gallows, where caitiff vagabonds were suspended by the waistband; demolishing his flag-staffs and windmills, which, like mighty giants, guarded the ramparts of New Amsterdam; pitching to the duyvel whole batteries of

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

It gives a spirited description of the prudent retreat of General Huysmans, the unconditional surrender of Commandant Eybel, and winds up with a pen-and-ink sketch of Brounckers 'bright boy breaking the chaff-bread of captivity in the quarters of that slim duyvel, the Engelsch Commandant.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

The "new square gun" became a proverb of dread, inspiring a salutary fear of more traps of the same kind, "set by that slim duyvel, the English Commandant," and threw over the innocent stretch of veld outside those trivial sand-bagged defences the glamour of the Mysterious and the Unknown.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

And the worst duyvel of all "-- he waved the big hand westward --" is he over there at

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

"There's a lot in bluff, you know," that "slim duyvel," the Commandant of the rooineks, said long afterwards.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

"Mein baas! mein baas! der duyvel um da -- dar skellum is da 'tsetse!'"

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

"Mein baas! mein baas! der duyvel um da -- dar skellum is da ` tsetse! '"

The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850

For a short time he vapored like an impatient ghost upon the brink, and then, bethinking himself of the urgency of his errand, took a hearty embrace of his stone bottle, swore most valorously that he would swim across in spite of the devil (_spyt den duyvel_), and daringly plunged into the stream.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

Here an old Dutch burgher, famed for his veracity, and who had been a witness of the fact, related to them the melancholy affair; with the fearful addition (to which I am slow of giving belief) that he saw the duyvel, in the shape of a huge mossbonker, seize the sturdy Antony by the leg and drag him beneath the waves.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

"Der duyvel!" said the fat little distiller of Schiedam.

Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821