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1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 157 If the holy plaintifs might haue the diuels lucke, and by some sinister meanes obtaine their request.

1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. ii. sig. G4^v The Devills child, the Devills lucke.

1743 J. Henley Why how now, Gossip Pope? (ed. 2) 3 That you who are so good a Believer should partake the Devil's Luck, who suffers Hell while he damns the World.

1789 G. Moultrie False & True i. iii. 10 l have had the devil's own luck in getting to this same Naples.

1843 Graham's Mag. Mar. 179/1 The fellow always had the eye of a hawk for a pretty wench, and the devil's own luck in winning them, too.

1884 D. Boucicault Shaughraun i. iv. 20 Well, as the divil's luck would have it, there was only..a tailor's thimble, an' they couldn't get it full.

1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iv. 82 He has the divil's own luck, that Englishman, annyway; for when they picked him up he hadnt a scratch on him.

2014 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 17 May 26 Some bad people have had the Devil's own luck.