"Deucedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brought wisdom, and I don't see the sense of tying myself down to one particular thing and grinding away at it year after year. People of one idea get so deucedly narrow and tame, I've no patience with them. Culture is the thing, and the sort one gets by ranging over a wide field is the easiest to acquire, the handiest to have, and the most successful in the end. At any rate, it is the kind I like and the only ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... joy." Harviss held out a box of his best cigars. "I don't know when I've had a bigger sensation. It was so deucedly unexpected—and, my dear fellow, you've brought it so ...
— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... in camp looking for you; she's got a folded account paper in her hand. It looks deucedly like ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... Tristram, mysteriously, "you can never tell. They imitate, you know, so deucedly well. It's like the jewelers, with their false stones. Go into the Palais Royal, there; you see 'Imitation' on half the windows. The law obliges them to stick it on, you know; but you can't tell the things apart. To tell the truth," Mr. Tristram continued, with a wry face, "I don't do much in ...
— The American • Henry James
... silent for a little, staring at the fire. "Anyhow," he said at last, "we were fools to be so far up the valley. Why shouldn't we go down to the Forest Lodge? They'll take us in, and we should be deucedly comfortable, ...
— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan |
