deuse

"What the deuse was the matter with you at one time?" asked Jack

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

What a deuse is the matter with me, that I cannot see my honest man in the same advantageous light in which he appears to everybody else?

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Samuel Richardson 1725

The "deuse" declining to accept of his repeated offers, (probably because there was still too much honor and honesty in the boy,) young

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

"Well, then I don't know what the deuse you _will_ do!" said Williams, knocking the ashes out of his pipe.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

"Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.'"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

I just coldly enclosed to her my cousin's letter of introduction, along with my address; and said to myself, 'Now, she'll know what a deuse of a fellow she has slighted: she'll know she has put an affront upon a connection of the Todworths!'

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

Debby's bright face clouded over, and she walked on with so much stateliness that her escort wondered "what the deuse the old lady had done to her," and exerted himself to the utmost to recall her merry mood, but with indifferent success.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

I should like to see her face when you tell her; she's such a shrewd old soul; and when a woman _does_ take to the sharp and worldly style of thing, it's the very deuse!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

-- Hark! What the deuse is that odd noise in his chamber?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

Though this course of life agreed well enough with the sluggish, phlegmatic temperament of the wine-dealer, it soon began to play the very deuse with the more sensitive organization of the notary, and finally put his nervous system completely out of tune.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887