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"_Mordieu_!" he said, with a rough southern accent -- and a grim old soldier he was -- "are you madmen, or have you dropped from the clouds, not to know that the gates are shut and will not be opened till sunrise?"
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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"_Mordieu_, you relieve me marvellously," says McBean, and O'Connor put his back against the door.
The Highwayman 1919
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"Mordieu!" he cried, by way of emphatically assenting.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Mordieu! on the contrary, when one meets a man like M. de Carmainges, it is reward we should speak of.
The Forty-Five Guardsmen Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Mordieu! that I can neither sleep, nor wake, nor even suffer quietly, because a shameful caprice has lodged in the idle brain of this miserable prince.
Chicot the Jester Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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"Mordieu!" cried Colbert, who forgot himself so far as to swear in the presence of this great lady, of this old friend of the queen-mother -- of the Duchesse de Chevreuse, in short.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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"Mordieu! ventrebleu! sangdien!" cried a stifled voice.
Chicot the Jester Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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"Mordieu! sire, you will have more men in your escort than trees in your forest."
The Forty-Five Guardsmen Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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"Mordieu!" thought Chicot, "what a pity I cannot give mine; I shall never have such another opportunity."
Chicot the Jester Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Mordieu, what need we fear; we belong to the king.
Chicot the Jester Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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