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  • "It's aboot oor Kevin, 'ees not feeling very well, ah think' ees gorra bad coold, so am ganna keep 'im off school the day, okay?"

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Commission of Uganda which leads that country, distinguished guests, CDR members, compatriots, [Castro interrupted by crowd chanting "Gorra, gorra, gorra" and Castro removes his fatigue hat and puts on the CDR red beret; applause]: The 20 years [of the CDR] are not reached today, that will be precisely tomorrow.

    20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CDR 1980

  • "Be gorra, ye damned fool, do you think that I'd be after givin 'myself away like this if I WAS one?"

    Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

  • "Be gorra!" said Doyle, "I'd like to be in his place now, provided I didn't have to be in it to-morrow."

    Waring's Peril Charles King 1888

  • "Be gorra, av ye don't sphake, I'll give ye one wid my twig."

    Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

  • Quitáronme el uniforme de Capitán, y me pusieron una gorra

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • Be-gorra, av you had as much trouble in catching him as I had, you'd think twice about letting him out.

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839

  • "Oh, be-gorra, and so he may be!" said Mike, with a toss of his head.

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839

  • "Be gorra, the Oulahans was niver dacenter nor the Molowneys, any how," said a tall athletic young fellow, as he threw down three crown pieces, with an energy that made every coin leap from the plate.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • "Be-gorra, though, ye had better keep that to yourself; for they're not the men to have that same said to them."

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839

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