demnition

Railroad Lawyer is a by-product: what Mr. Mantinelli would call a demnition product.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885

D. made you m-a-d; but you shall have it hereafter, if it makes you "demnition" mad; no appreciation of my delicacy in leaving out the E, -- which stands for error, egotism, eggnog, epsom-salts, and every erroneous entity extant.

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838

"Another minute," I said, through stiff lips, as I extricated myself from my swathings, "and I should have been what Mr. Mantalini described as a demnition body.

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

I am perpetually turning, like a demd old horse in a demnition mill.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

‘Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg,’ replied

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

‘Then you are most immensely and outr – i – geously deaf,’ said Mr Mantalini, ‘as deaf as a demnition post.’

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

‘How can it say so, when it is blooming in the front room like a little rose in a demnition flower – pot?’ urged Mantalini.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

‘If you will be odiously, demnebly, outrIgeously jealous, my soul,’ said Mr Mantalini, ‘you will be very miserable — horrid miserable — demnition miserable.’

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Girls may be romps and hoydens, vixens and scolds, but the sugar and spice will always be detected, and, with all drawbacks allowed, the little girl is still entitled to Mr. MANTALINI'S cognomen of "demnition sweetness."

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 Various

All of which is perfectly natural, nothing at all to your discredit, and furthermore shows whence come the few good men, who, sticking their heels in, are trying to keep the country from going to the demnition bow-wows.

A Fool There Was Porter Emerson Browne