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If they're so allfired altruistic, cut the final invoice amount in half.

Archive 2006-01-08 Miss Snark 2006

Ef ye does, it's stealin ', an' I knows thet none on the gintlemen uv the jury ar so allfired mean as ter steal -- 'ticularly ter steal whot woan't be uv no sort o' use ter 'em, nohow.

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

"They don't need to be so allfired grateful," said John Flint frankly.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Wall he dug it so tarnal allfired crooked that he fell out of it and sprained his ankel.

Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

And hot, too; why, it got so allfired hot that one day he tied his mule to a pen of popcorn out behind the barn, and it got so hot that the corn got to poppin 'and flyin' 'round that old mule's ears and he thought it wuz snow and laid down and froze to death.

Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

[Illustration: "'They seem to be allfired sure of us.'"] "They talk of being in Washington by the fifteenth, sir."

Special Messenger 1899

And es for Dick Butler; he's too allfired pompous an 'domineerin' for anybody to live with, anyhow.

The Flag Homer Greene 1896

As he warily moved about, he heard the general call out irritably: "Tompkins, go over an 'see Taylor, an' tell him not t 'be in such an all allfired hurry; tell him t' halt his brigade in th 'edge of th' woods; tell him t 'detach a reg'ment -- say I think th' center 'll break if we don't help it out some; tell him t' hurry up."

The Red Badge of Courage 1895

And hot, too; why, it got so allfired hot that one day he tied his mule to a pen of popcorn out behind the barn, and it got so hot that the corn got to poppin 'and flyin' 'round that old mule's ears and he thought it wuz snow and laid down and froze to death.

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1887

Well, 'twas my fust, you see, so I aint ashamed to say I was a trifle flustered in the beginnin ', there was such an allfired racket; for ef there's anything I do spleen agin, it's noise.

Hospital Sketches 1863