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Examples
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Well, sir, I'll be e-tarnally snitched to flinders if you didn't do it THAT time, Bill Hammersley!
Beasley's Christmas Party Booth Tarkington 1907
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I am really glad you silenced his gab, for he is 'tarnally blabbing about his religion; though I think he hain't much of it himself, except counterfeit stuff, like a bad bill, -- ha! ha!
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You'll hear him screetch for a mile a'most, so 'tarnally skeered.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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You'll hear him screetch for a mile a'most, so 'tarnally skeered.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Why, I vow, now I come to think on't, the candles seemed to burn blue, and I am sure where I sat it smelt tarnally of brimstone.
The Contrast Royall Tyler 1791
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Why, I vow, now I come to think on't, the candles seemed to burn blue, and I am sure where I sat it smelt tarnally of brimstone.
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Merrivale bent close to Nella-Rose -- "my hen coop was 'tarnally gone through, an' a bag o 'taters lifted.
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Big Pete looked at me solemnly for a while, ran over the cartridges in his belt and went through all those familiar unconscious motions which betokened danger ahead, and said, “Le-loo, you are a quare critter; you’re not afraid of all the werwolves, medicine ba’rs and ghosts in this world or the next, but tarnally afeared of live varmints like grizzly bars — one would think you had no religion, but, gosh all hemlock!
The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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I’ll be tarnally tarnashuned if that terri-fa-ca-cious spook hain’t pulled out!” was the exclamation that awakened me the morning after our adventure with the bear.
The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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Bighorn’s mutton is powerful good, but tarnally shy and hung mighty high, an’ billygoat is doggoned strong ’nless you know how to cook ’em.
The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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