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English - but in the durndest way you remind me of my Aunt Betsy back home. '

Twin Moons 2010

REDDY BACKROW (whose father belongs to the union) -- "You'd have the durndest strike on your hands you ever saw, teacher."

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

He's powerful promising at the start, but he's the d----, the gol-durndest quitter anywhere around.

Joyce of the North Woods

See if yo 'don't think it's ther durndest stuff yo' ever seen! '

The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

"But I wanted ter see yo ', Jim, to tell yo' all the boys remember yo ', and all allow yo' were the dol-durndest tenderfoot thet ever crossed a hoss or fired a rope or a gun."

The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

Janet, while I slept, I had the durndest dream, I can't get rid of it.

Janet of the Dunes

"This is the durndest automobile I ever saw," Jeeter said.

Tobacco Road Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- 1934

I am steering my little craft right out in the billows It may be dashed to smithereens, and it may come safely home again, but in any case, I'll have the consolation of the Texas cowboy that “I've done my durndest!”

The Lady of the Decoration Little, Frances, 1863-1941 1906

Wall, he got up and sang the durndest old-fashioned song I calculate I ever heered in my life; went somethin 'like this:

Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

I sed, wall now if they don't you'll git the durndest bump you ever got in your life.

Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903