drat
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OK — so we’d at least get up to that bend in the trail to take a peek … and … drat!
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
Video has surfaced of the arrest over the weekend of Seahawks' top drat pick Malik McDowell.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
But Carroll resisted that idea, repeating what Schneider had said — that this was simply a deep defensive back drat.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2017
Arnold said, or some variant of drat, and threw his shoes and clubs in the suddenly quiet locker room.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2010
All drat could be hoped for now was that the end of their journey had come quickly and mercifully in that wilderness.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
I certainly wish Germany to stay in the Eurozone, not to be able to dip into its dratted kitty, but for its own sake as well as for Europe's sake.
From Economist ● May 2, 2013
The Zags are left to sort out how much of that exit was due to their own frailties and how much to dratted ill timing and bad luck.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2013
The dratted devices also make it easier for managers in one time zone to spoil the evenings of managers in another.
From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2012
And the grand old game of golf has never been the same since some dratted tinkerer invented the wedge.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘I wonder where that dratted Gollum is?’ thought Sam, as he crawled back into deeper shade.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
"But if you go dratting things, I can't economize," the girl reminded him.
From Michael O'Halloran by Stratton-Porter, Gene
"Doing nothing's the hardest job I ever struck," he growled, shifting impatiently from shade to shade, and dratting the flies and dust; and even sank so low as to envy the missus her house.
From We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Jeannie
