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    deuce example sentences

    deuce


    deuced


    deuces


    1. "Why…Why the deuce not?"


    2. What a deuce of a situation I would be in, had you not


    3. Mostly I served deep in the corner to Ben’s backhand on the add court and down the service line to his backhand on the deuce court


    4. Deuce on the level? If so, so what, don’t need his job


    5. If they got to one of them, they probably wouldn’t need to go through Deuce to find him


    6. He had made his own introduction to Deuce a couple of months ago


    7. How did Deuce connect to whoever sent that text? Maybe they used him as an informer too


    8. They met up with Deuce at the warehouse


    9. Deuce was scared, but Albert couldn’t tell if he was being coerced or if he was just nervous


    10. They had Deuce out in the open by the office while the three of them hid behind pallets of boxes

    11. Deuce walked casually out of a small office in the back


    12. “What took you so long?” Deuce had dull eyes, his lips chapping into sores


    13. How’d this go down, Deuce?”


    14. Deuce Delta Three was the current call sign for the 34th Infantry Regiment of the 24th U


    15. fives with a deuce kicker, which just so happened to match the river


    16. The first card dealt was a deuce,


    17. He begins by swearing: "Where the deuce am I?" he says


    18. "Removing me! Where the deuce to?"


    19. quieted they read two sixes, a pair of fours and a deuce


    20. forth there were three aces, a four and a deuce

    21. hands tossed the four and the deuce back and when they


    22. "What the deuce is she at our table for?"


    23. The dry-goods stores were not down among the counting-houses, banks, and wholesale warerooms, where gentlemen most do congregate, but Jo found herself in that part of the city before she did a single errand, loitering along as if waiting for someone, examining engineering instruments in one window and samples of wool in another, with most unfeminine interest, tumbling over barrels, being half-smothered by descending bales, and hustled unceremoniously by busy men who looked as if they wondered `how the deuce she got there'


    24. "The deuce! That puts a different face on the matter


    25. "The deuce! I hope he does not bring our breakfast with him


    26. (You liked your bit of game, didn't you?) No; deuce a bit of a lady in the case, Mr


    27. Where the deuce did he pop out of? He wasn't in the chapel, that I'll swear


    28. Who the deuce scrawled all over those walls


    29. What the deuce do we care?


    30. This murder of Karolides will play the deuce in the chancelleries of Europe

    31. "What the deuce is he knocking at his own door for?" cried the


    32. The deuce only knows what I am thought of by the brethren


    33. Indeed, by April, his main discipline was forestalling until early evening, or at least late afternoon, an experience infinitely more beautiful: the leisurely walk over the Grand Concourse or the long plunge down to the Deuce to cop


    34. What the deuce? I'm under eighty


    35. Caleb made no rejoinder, but presently lowered his spectacles, drew up his chair to the desk, and said, "Deuce take the bill—I wish it was at Hanover! These things are a sad interruption to business!"


    36. "But what the deuce was the name?" he presently said, half aloud,


    37. "The deuce!" he exclaimed, snarlingly


    38. "Well, what the deuce do I care for that?" said Charles, making a


    39. It was a sharp trap for the inscrutable! He couldn't play any longer at innocence; so how the deuce would he get out of it? There beat in me indeed, with the passionate throb of this question an equal dumb appeal as to how the deuce I should


    40. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it

    41. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean


    42. "The deuce!" said the Fleming


    43. "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?"


    44. "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay attention and not be precipitate about anything


    45. "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!"


    46. "The deuce!" said Thenardier, and he redoubled his


    47. One day, there was brought to him in a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months previously, attributed to him


    48. "Bah! bah! He is just of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an affair of passion!"


    49. Deuce take it! None of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child with her wound,—we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow


    50. "But who the deuce is he following?"




























    1. Now, barring all that, I mean to say she is a deuced fine girl!"


    2. Martin Cunningham frequently said he would work a pass through Egan but some deuced hitch or other eternally cropped up with the net result that the scheme fell through


    3. They were so deuced knowing, some of them; but it seemed a pity to let an idea like that, what had actually leaped from his brain full-fledged, go to waste


    1. come over the small, strained face a new expression, an expression as blank as she As the harsh rapid knocking sounded at the door, she looked at Melanie and saw had just seen on Rhett Butler’s face, the bland blank look of a poker player bluffing a game with only two deuces


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    Synonyms for "deuce"

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    "deuce" definitions

    a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game


    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number


    a word used in exclamations of confusion


    one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots