sblood

The 'sblood' of the sixteenth century must not be confounded with the 'zounds' of the seventeenth.

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup; ’sblood! an he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he would say so.

Act III. Scene III. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

"Why, 'sblood, he is at the threshold," replied Michael.

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

Part of the attraction of Shakespeare is the poetry, which, after the 'sblood and egads have been eradicated, is the second thing to be modernised.

The Guardian World News 2010

How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he would say so.

The First Part of King Henry IV 1596

Natalie Angier weighs in on the human proclivity for cursing in a lengthy essay in the NYT: "The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood"

Science Project 2010

- “I harrow you!” replied the commodore: “‘sblood!

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman hath no lean wardrobe. ’sblood, I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear.

The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke, — ’sblood! —

The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

Dost see this little old fellow here? as old and withered a chip as ever the devil put into his porridge — and yet, uncle, between you and me — he hath Potosi in that brain of his — ‘sblood! he can coin ducats faster than I can vent oaths.”

Kenilworth 2004