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Examples
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"And if I am not cos -- whatever you call the bloomin 'beast -- what of it?"
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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"You can call a bloomin 'copper if you want to," the little man said.
Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912
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On the last government, there are few "bloomin lefties" that would call it "bloomin Left".
The Guardian World News Julia Kollewe 2011
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And the blossoms are a'bloomin 'at the time they should be, which is actually kind of unusual.
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Just to make us look as 'armless as a pair o' bloomin 'doves.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various
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"Well, there's an island about fifty miles from here," the black went on, "and there's somethin 'bloomin' stringe about it;" for so he pronounced "strange."
The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar Margaret Penrose
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There's another lot o 'bloomin' rockets gowin orf!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 Various
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Upon a bank o 'bloomin' flowers, beside the pear-tree well;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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"An 'bloomin' well ready to get out of it by any way he can," added another.
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I wish we were a couple o 'bloomin' poets and just talked about roses and moonshine, but we're human.
Main Street 1920
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