deused

There's some kind of clever story about his father's leaving a load of debts, and Frank's working a deused number of years till they were paid.

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Mr. Geer had as much firmness, not to say obstinacy, as falls to the lot of most men; but Mr.. Geer had more; and as Launce Outram, hard beset, so pathetically moaned, "A woman in the very house has such deused opportunities!" so Farmer Geer grumbled, and squirmed, and remonstrated, and -- yielded.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

"I shall be most happy to show the lions: they are deused tame ones, so you needn't be alarmed, Miss Wilder."

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She's new, you see, and I get on with that sort of girl the best, for the old ones are so deused knowing that a fellow has no chance of a-- By the Lord

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Did I tell you that old Hunks has been deused liberal?

Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

"I used to fancy that sort of thing years ago, but I'm afraid I should find it a little slow now, though you describe it in such an inviting manner that I should be tempted to try it, if a hay-cock came in my way; for, upon my life, it's deused heavy work loafing about at these watering-places all summer.

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Made a deused good speech, when she presented the flag to-day. "

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I know him, and a deused good fellow he is, -- though he don't belong to our set, you know. "

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"She looks as mild as strawberries and cream till you come to the complimentary, then she turns on a fellow with that deused satirical look of hers, and makes him feel like a fool.

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"That is a deused good idea, and I'll go and tell the boys.

The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859