Beshrew

“Beshrew me,” he said, “these new-fashioned religioners have fast-days, I warrant me — the old ones used to confer these blessings chiefly on the laity.”

The Monastery 2008

“Beshrew me,” quoth Jack, “but we are in the very land of the nymphs, and I shall expect to see Diana herself next, with the moon on her forehead.”

Westward Ho! 2007

“Beshrew my fingers, then, if they did so,” replied the stranger.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

“Beshrew the fellow,” I said to myself as I left him, carefully closing the door, so that the sound should not shake him; “he is little better than a woman, and yet I have become as fond of him as though he were my brother.”

Tales of all countries 2004

The Templar smiled sourly as he replied, “Beshrew thee for a false-hearted liar!” and passing onward, as if disdaining farther conference, he communed with his Moslem slaves in a language unknown to the bystanders.

Ivanhoe 2004

“Beshrew me, but I think thou art distraught already,” answered the Queen. — “My Lord Hunsdon, look to this poor distressed young woman, and let her be safely bestowed, and in honest keeping, till we require her to be forthcoming.”

Kenilworth 2004

Beshrew thee, stop: may-be we'll strike a bargain.

The Frogs 2000

Beshrew the blatant bleating of sheep-voiced mimes!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

Beshrew me, but the man could get close to my heart.

Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

Beshrew me if I have spoken more than a dozen words today, and that, to a man of my sociable temper, not to speak of my swift and practised tongue -- lingua celer et exercitata: you remember the phrase of

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang