heart-scalded

• I declare to God I'm heart-scalded with her! " —  All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
• "Wurrah, wurrah! but it's me that's the heart-scalded crathur with that man's four quarters! —  The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
• 'Och!' says Bonypart, 'do you tell me so?' says he -- 'I'm fairly heart-scalded with that same Billy Malowney,' says he; 'an' I think if I was wanst shut iv him I'd bate the rest iv them aisy, 'says he. —  The Purcell Papers — Volume 3
• "He says," interpreted William, "there isn't pig nor ass, sheep nor duck, belongin 'to him that isn't heart-scalded with the same childhren an' their dog." —  All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
• But niver a word he heeded, nor near the fire he wouldn't come, and had her heart-scalded seein 'him sittin' there in the draught of the door. —  Strangers at Lisconnel

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