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"What's a 'fernal' chine?" asked Sunny Boy boldly.

Sunny Boy in the Country Ramy Allison White 1916

The '' fernal 'chine' of an alarm clock was ticking steadily away on the bureau where Mrs. Horton had placed it after unpacking, and with a great deal of trouble and much tracing with a wet forefinger, he made out that it was three o'clock -- or was it five o'clock?

Sunny Boy in the Country Ramy Allison White 1916

He did not create the demand for such services, he merely filled the needs, much as he did the salted fernal nuts requested by the Inner Six Worlds of the Orischians or the giant cargo ships needed by the bulk hauling concerns of the Three-Ring Giants.

The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

He did not create the demand for such services, he merely filled the needs, much as he did the salted fernal nuts requested by the Inner Six Worlds of the Orischians or the giant cargo ships needed by the bulk hauling concerns of the Three-Ring Giants.

The Man Who Used The Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

You're makin picters of the place for that are in-fernal Kernal Smith who owns the land, so's he can show 'em round and pint out the buildin 'lots.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

"YEH may gas about torpedoes an '' fernal machines an 'such like, but yeh can't learn me nothin'; onct I had t 'do wi' suthin 'o' th 'sort that turned th' heads o 'a dozen men from black ter white in 'bout ten minutes," and the ancient mariner looked at me with careful impressiveness.

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

'An hour later, while absorbed in some of my in - fernal studies, I heard, or thought I heard, my signal answered.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

All 'fernal nonsense, nerves strained, didn't see what we see, and say nothing of what did see to Mrs. Major, if either do say anything, t'other one break his neck.

A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

His face was ghastly, but his voice had lost none of its drawling scorn as he said to Joe, slowly and distinctly, "You in-fernal idiot!"

Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884

"I'll gib you what for; you shall hab what Paddy gib the drum, you 'fernal black skunk; I show yar what John up the orchard is, you -- you Italian organ-grinding sweep -- You chestnut-munching beast!"

Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Bracebridge Hemyng 1871