The dickens

Why the dickens did he do that?

It is cold as the dickens out here!

I cannot tell what (the dickens) his name is my husband had him of, what do you cal your Knights name ſirrah?

“[…] You’ll come in sight of the Martians I expect about half a mile along this road.” / “What the dickens are they like?” asked the lieutenant.

"That's it," I exclaimed, "--that's just the taste exactly, though I haven't experienced it since boyhood; but how can water from a flowing stream, taste thus, and what the dickens makes it so warm? It must be at least 70 or 80 Fahrenheit, possibly higher."

“Who in the dickens are you?” the lanky man said. / “I am a genie,” the creature said. “I have been trapped in the bottle for ages. You have released me so you are my master.”

She can go to the dickens for what she said.

“Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”