Word: divilment
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...outspoken conviction. Late in the year many of our letter writers share another trait: they are reviewing the events of the year and choosing their candidates for TIME'S Man of the Year. One of these this year was Finbarr M. Slattery, who is known as "the divil to argue" in his native village, Asdee (pop. 250) in County Kerry, where the Shannon meets...
...Irishman, so the story goes, once insisted on being buried in a Church of England cemetery, because "that's the last place the Divil would look for an Irishman...
...rooks like. Pompous in his red coat, the eldest Guardsman, bag in hand, surrounded by expectant birds, made a few appropriate remarks, chiefly for the benefit of humans who had gathered to watch. "Sure and our Holy Mither herself, may she bless His Majesty!" cried the old Guardsman, "And Divil take his enemies, bad cess...
...divil a little...
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