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the Deuce

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the Deuce
New England appellation for the devil. [Am. Folklore: Leach, 353]
See : Devil


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He couldn't play any longer at innocence; so how the deuce would he get out of it?
I wished a round score of men--in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French--and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that I required.
I was in the deuce of a hurry, and didn't know that I should ever get what I wanted in time, and that's a fact.
 
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