devil's own luck
Example Sentences
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"Vous avez the devil's own luck"; exclaimed he, repeating the blow, when, to avoid the cloud, he turned short round, and encountered the Yorkshireman.
From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Surtees, Robert Smith
"Oh, you have always had the devil's own luck," he cried.
From The Highwayman by Bailey, H. C. (Henry Christopher)
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
Oh," answered Mellish, "it's a boy—a stranger—who is having the devil's own luck at the start.
From The Face and the Mask by Barr, Robert
In disgust he swore it was the devil's own luck, that he should run out of vestas at a time so critical.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
