devil's own luck

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You've got the devil's own luck, Deacon, that's what you've got.

From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by Henley, William Ernest

"Well, gentlemen, on that occasion of which I was speaking, the devil's own luck being with me, I sunk both the carrack and the galley, and headed the Star for the castle of Paria."

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

I was quite sensible that I had had the devil's own luck in my capture of a post on The Spectator.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

Well, if that ain't the devil's own luck!

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

I always had the devil's own luck about things, you know.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice