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Examples
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“Be jabers, let him drink his health in his own potheen.”
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Kape her away, or, be jabers, it's lost we'll be for sartin! '
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"Be jabers, Oi'll kape me oye out fur to say ef Oi can pick up a roight-down comfable arm-cheer fur ye to take a sate whin ye gits toired, sure, a-standin 'whin ye're on the watch!"
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Be jabers!" quoth Mr. McMurtrie, resting his club on the ground and watching the flying machine with eyes in which might have been discerned a shade of misgiving.
Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang
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"And, be jabers," said our little Irish Corporal, on hearing it read,
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong
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Be jabers! my feet feel as if they were in the ice now, and frost-bitten all over! '
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"Be jabers!" exclaimed Garry O'Neil, unable to keep silent any longer.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"Carried, be jabers!" roared Paddy Doolan, pulling the communication cord, while Bill, Sandy and some more, seized the Socialist.
The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell
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"Be jabers, sor!" exclaimed the Irishman in his very broadest brogue and with a comical grin on his face that certainly must have eclipsed that of which he complained in the professor of his college who had caught him and his fellow-student trespassing on his medical preserves.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"Be jabers if I ondherstan 'yez at all at all; an' there ye have it."
The American Baron James De Mille
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