dubersome

Boston, and he was such a "durned electric eel of a cuss, here, there, and everywhere," that it would be "just dubersome to kalkerlate" when he would "reel his way back to hum!"

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

But knowin 'as I did the elastic nature of manly affection, I felt dubersome.

Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

I didn't wait to ask what they wuz talkin 'about, I hoped it wuz religion, but felt dubersome, and hurried there fast as I could.

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

I felt dubersome, but bein 'so mellered in sperit by his consentin' to build the cottage I didn't stand out.

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

Cicely see it, see that dubersome look, though I tried to turn it off by kissin 'him jest as hearty as I could after I had took the little black-robed figure of his mother, and hugged her close to my heart, and kissed her time and time agin.

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

But I confess that I did feel a little dubersome in my own mind.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 Marietta Holley 1881

Then the sisters all begin to look less dubersome.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 Marietta Holley 1881

They made him look more babyish; but I believe Cicely kept 'em so to make him look young, she felt so dubersome about his future.

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

There wuz quite dubersome looks all round the room when she handed in the money and went right out, for she had a errent to the store.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 Marietta Holley 1881

I noticed them lips and that chin the very minute Josiah brought him into the settin'-room, and set him down; and my eyes looked dubersome at him through my specks.

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881