Old Harry
Older Use. the devil; Satan.
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How to use Old Harry in a sentence
So I am going to go and wrap a cold compress around my head, like the Old Harry.
Prince Harry's U.S. Tour: Rolling Updates and all the News and Pictures as It Happens | Tom Sykes | May 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTT'S hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.
Quips and Quiddities | William Davenport AdamsOne lolls about and sleeps all day long, and one's liver gets like a Strasburg goose's and plays Old Harry with one's temper.
Simon the Jester | William J. LockeHe called the press "Old Harry," and gave it such a cleaning up as it had not had since the early days of Anthy's father.
Hempfield | David GraysonThe teachers are high-headed, the parents always dissatisfied, and the children act like the Old Harry.
Sweet Cicely | Josiah Allen's Wife: Marietta Holley
Mother, I think you would make excuses for the Old Harry himself.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine | Joseph C. Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for Old Harry
informal a jocular name for Satan
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