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"I suppose I'll have to get him something to do, but I don't know what, unless I employ him to follow me around and arrest me when I act like a dratted fool She sighed, and rocked slowly Another thing, Lizzie," she said. — More Tish
"You don't even know what a dratted, useless thing you be, I swan There was a depression in the field. — Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod
Jimmie climbed upon the box, and gathered up the reins, saying, "So, old boy, you don't like the dratted language any better than I do. — As Seen By Me
Now Mrs Crocket had certainly 'dratted' and 'darned' the boy, who wouldn't come as fast as she had wished, and had laughed at Mrs Trevelyan very contemptuously, when that lady had suggested that the urchin, who was at last brought forth, might not be a safe charioteer down some of the hills I suppose I'm used to it,' said Priscilla. — He Knew He Was Right
Id never heard of the dratted place. — Tish