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It was too plaguey cold and wet to be sociable.
We were always starved for sweets, on account of it being so plaguey cold and never really able to get properly warm except during summer.
Ramoth's not to be pestered by those plaguey things.
"And those plaguey bowmen are somewhere overhead, too."
Picked up from some plaguey pedlar!
These Indians showed choler when the place was built, and were plaguey pestilent in asking to visit the grounds at the full of the moon.
She was a beautiful girl when I took her from you--but plaguey irritating and I think I had the worst of the bargain."
Daisy was already weeping, Bess like a devoted servant mingled her tears with those of her mistress, and Nan denounced the entire race of boys as "plaguey things."
You must know, Clarke, since there is none to overhear us, that in the old days I was a Justice of the Peace in Surrey, and that our friend here was brought up before me on a charge of riding somewhat late o' night, and of being plaguey short with travellers.
"I suggest," continued Sir Henry, "that I despatch one of my stable- men down to Dymchurch with a note from me to say that you are staying the night with us here, for it has occurred to me that the evenings being still long, the stars may be plaguey late coming out upon the terrace."
A plaguy good precept, which has stood me in excellent stead before now.
"If it wasn't so plaguy dangerous, it would be funny.
From the height of his desk, he could spot a mouse upon this quay, and you are so plaguy tall, my friend.
But people were so plaguy sharp nowadays!
What was it after all but the plaguy unending thirst of the vampire, which one must either tame or die for?
It was obvious the lawyer thought of the scheme as being no more than one of the old cow's plaguy whims.
And, besides them plaguy guns, they have got a tarnal nation sight of pistols!
"And what," said a female voice from inside, "what if I refused to serve another of these plaguy wanderers you are always foisting upon me?"
He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.'
'You have assuredly inherited a plaguy pert tongue,' growled Saxon.
Though there certainly were,' he added, without waiting for an answer, 'some plaguy ill-looking characters among them.'
When I entered there was a plaguy smell of brimstone, and the flame of my lanthorn burned blue.
She is full of oats and would fain gallop, but it is so plaguy dark that we can scarce see where we are going.'
Most of the recorded versions live up to the comment by Robert Burns in a letter dated September 1793: "It is a plaguy length".
It was crazy to hope that good might come out of this plaguy mess, but at least it was different from anything that had happened to her before.
"Just as you please; I'm sorry I cant spare ye a tablecloth for a mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here"- feeling of the knots and notches.
A pedant angler, I call him, a plaguy angler, so let him huff away, and turn we to thee and to thy sweet charm in fishing for men.
The trader cowered at this, and in a somewhat lower tone said that "it was plaguy hard on a fellow, that had made a fair bargain, to be gulled that way."
He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
Against this good service on the part of Fate in providing her with Henry for a brother, Francesca could well set the plaguy malice of the destiny that had given her Comus for a son.
'Faith, by the same chain of reasoning,' said Reuben, 'one of my ancestors must have married a woman with a plaguy dry throat, for both my father and I are much troubled with the complaint.'
'He was plaguy hot at first, but he soon came round, and he hath promised that if I pay for the hire of a dragooner as long as the war shall last I shall have back the piebald.'
Ye Process is plaguy harde to come neare; and it used up such a Store of Specimens, I am harde putte to it to get Enough, notwithstand'g the Sailors I haue from ye Indies.