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"Matter that consarns you and me more than any other two persons in the etarnal world!" said Bruce, with such energy of utterance as nothing-but rage could supply.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Down-easters, any how; he's a cock of the woods, he is; an "etarnal screamer," "and that's a fact" -- with a bowie knife under his waistcoat, and a patent revolver in his coat pocket, both very much at the service of any gentleman who may dispute his claims to popular or personal consideration.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various
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And besides, didn't that etarnal old Bruce fob me off with a beast good for nothing, and talk big to me besides? and warn't that all fa'r provocation?
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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He has an eye for a horse, the etarnal skirmudgeon! but the pony will be the death of him; for he's skeary, and will keep Ralph slow in the path.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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When he's gouty, he kicks up a most etarnal touse with the great-toe nerve, an 'slaps it right into him fore an' aft, the wust kind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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Let's have Yankee-Doodle and the Rogue's March for, by the etarnal Old Scratch, all them white men that ar'n't a-horse-back in twenty-five minutes, are rogues worse than red Injuns!
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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I'll tell ye something: the Frenchies is etarnal afeard of the Long
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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"I don't know what she's stayin 'with that feller Crewe for," the farmer remarked; of all the etarnal darn idiots -- why, Brush Bascom and that
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Their time was up, their wives and children for all they knew sculped by the red varmints, and, by the etarnal, Clark or no man living could keep them.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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Their time was up, their wives and children for all they knew sculped by the red varmints, and, by the etarnal, Clark or no man living could keep them.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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