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  • Young mars wuz in a tarrible hurry fer ter git back home.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • "Geordie" swears it was a tarrible great savage durg; but it may be, of course, that he had forgotten himself and your exhortations, at the

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • Noo yon's a tarrible descreepancy, ye ken, so ah says to masel, ah'll be up sides wi 'ye, ma lad.

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • He blow and she tumble about and her chain chafe -- chafe tarrible sometime.

    Wide Courses 1912

  • "Glory be to God, Mrs. Ryan, but that's a tarrible number!"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 Various 1898

  • There was tarrible slaughter that day, and the inimy bruk in great disorther, and is now trying to escape down the

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 Various 1898

  • Young mars wuz in a tarrible hurry fer ter git back home.

    Po' Sandy 1888

  • 'T was a tarrible long journey up over the driftun ice, at sea!

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • ('T would n 'ha' been so cold, to say cold, ef it had n 'a-blowed so tarrible hard.)

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • I'd walk a piece, back an 'forth, an' back an 'forth; an' so I passed a many, many longsome hours, seemunly, tull night goed down tarrible slowly, an 'it comed up day o' t 'other side: an' there was n 'no land; nawthun but great mountains meltun an' breakun up, an 'fields wastun away.

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

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