darnation

St. Jingo was the only saint, and a "darnation" or "darn you," were the only oaths his puritan education ever permitted him to use.

Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Gosh darnation we have us some cow pies for brains people here in the Lone Star State.

Easter Lemming Liberal News 2007

Gosh darnation we have us some cow pies for brains people here in the Lone Star State.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Boy, I'm too old to be wandering around in darnation.

Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition) 1994

As Buck turned with a surly "What the darnation?" the other whispered:

Way of the Lawless Max Brand 1918

I want her so bad I feel I could get right out an 'trail around these darnation hills, an' skitter holes, hollering 'help' like some mangy coyote chasing up her young.

The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

You reckon you've got all you need of our brains, and your own brute force and darnation foolishness can run these great mills which are to hand you the big money you reckon it hands us.

The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905

Why, sure I'll send it, even if it's to tell him how mighty glad you are to be quitting the prison I'd condemned you to, and the joy it's going to hand you to see his darnation Teuton face again.

The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905

As Dr. Bill declared in one of his infrequent outbursts of passionate protest: "The place is one darnation public brothel; a scandal to the northland, a shame on humanity."

The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

Jest get to it an 'set all the darnation territory you ken find between you an'

The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905