“Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest”

“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

“The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.”

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”

“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”

“I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

“And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.”