How To Use Damned In A Sentence

The Girl relucted a little, upon which he gave her 3 Guineas, and wished he might be damned if he did not have her in 3 months. John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756
I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
The Christian conspectus or theatre in the old sense has a happy ending, whether the protagonist triumphs or is damned, because God's justice has been done.
I had a feeling when we walked out, it was going to be a damned good game in the second half.

A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!): Writer's Block
We prefer to suffer the tortures of the damned than to accept our Godliness.
Every time I see the papers commentating on an English sporting team they are either praised as the next World Champions or damned as sporting failures.
Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter! Babbit
It was the first time I left the house without my hooter hider and for once I stopped being so goddamned self-conscious about doing something NATURAL! Bare Your Boobs In The Air! Like You Just Don’t Care! | Her Bad Mother
In common with most social networking sites, Facebook has always seemed like a kind of yapping gallery of the lost, the deluded and the damned; if I fancy any of that, I can go to the pub with friends. It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up
If things were the other way around, our son-whom-we-loved would be a damned terrorist, almost certainly, because he is of the third and fourth generation of refugeehood and oppression, and whence cometh salvation? Progressive Bloggers
I can imagine a bushbaby, under attack, repeating the immortal words of Charlton Heston, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” Waldo Jaquith - I, for one, welcome our spear-wielding chimp overlords.
How am I supposed to maintain a good grump with you being so damned cute?
The action was damned from the start.
Damned inconvenient, Zojja said a month later as she tromped behind Caithe and Snaff through deep jungle. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
And I'd be goddamned if I was going to scrape it all up with a butter knife.
An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
It's a goddamned movie, and, let's be honest here, there are many more productive things to be than a goddamn filmmaker.
He felt the pain in the shoulder, where the arrow had hit him, and he damned his ship, his fate, the entire curse of his life.
The Hawken brothers used the Kentucky as a model for their guns, but the barrels were much shorter (26 to 38 inches), because their users had discovered that a long-barreled rifle, regardless of its advantages, was a damned unhandy thing to hunt with from horseback. Why Shorter is Better
Unless, of course, one of you wants to break that goddamned lamp.
The Welsh, I would say, have an often overlooked but damned fine line in dry humour, as is often the case with people from inclement climates, and maybe this is honed even more when you spend so much of your life immersed in that inclemency.
I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised. THE NUMBERS
I'm a thrice damned fool - lucky he has a well developed sense of humour eh?
You are just a goddamned coward, you yellow son-of-a-bitch.
Devil be damned!" was the next, uttered in irritation and anger. CHAPTER XV
In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
‘Publish and be damned’ is a phrase that some of us are familiar with and this very potential damnation stops many from committing their ideas to paper.
Funny, the crazy thing is that ever since I met Angie my life has kind of paralleled the damned book that started it all in the first place. Clean Kill
They'd cut nearly a whole pound off the weight of one of their flagship portables, which was pretty damned light to begin with.
When I was a small child, I imagined that hell consisted of caves in which the damned were trapped, tortured and burnt.
Well, "stigmatized" is too light a word -- "damned" is more like it. E. Jean Carroll: Does Being Fat Kill Your Career?
When that happened, all the gods (who, it turns out, really did exist in ethereal forms, science be damned) became earthbound as humans. Book Review: Exponential Apocalypse | Fandomania
So if you don't want me to throw out my back chucking you out of that there window, you're going to pick this stuff up, walk out of here, and try your damnedest to show a little respect to the dead. Free Excerpt 3/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
Must you pester me now even after we're out of that thrice damned school and make my life more miserable?
I have some before pictures too, in underwear only, but I'll be damned if I put them up for y'all to see!
And to be short, who can but woonder, why they should not faine the same prison of damned soules, aswell in mount Aetna, being no lesse famous for fires and inflamations then this: But you will say, that Pope Gregorie fained it so to be. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
However, if you are simply a Dem partisan who wanted the President to "lose" on this issue national security be damned, then this news is very thin gruel indeed since the President is still conducting the TSP, only this time with the additional benefit of being able to admit the evidence in court. Balkinization
That leaves some folks, the elect, walking around with an OK rational function, and others, the damned, walking around without one.
They're all right and it's a damned shame that they're getting such a bad press.
It involved fibbing to their parents, sneaking out unchaperoned, staying up past their bedtimes and watching as their fathers became good mates with Rat Scabies of the Damned.
I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
And it helps that they look so damned good-and are instantly recognisable in the car park!
The saved would feast on the sight of the sufferings of the damned.
It's not dangerous, yet togged up in that gear your average enthusiast looks damned menacing.
This damned heat has addled many people's wits, mine included: made us sluggish, unquestioning, apathetic.
He didn't want to watch the quiet parade of students - they made him feel so damned old.
Dante doesn't say so, but he leaves us free to speculate that moneylenders continue to practice their trade in hell, lending money at interest to the damned.
But I have a damned good dose of the devil in my pipe-stem atomy; I have had my little holiday outing in my kick at The Young Chevalier, and I guess I can settle to DaviD. Balfour tomorrow or Friday like a little man. Vailima Letters
Damned if that whoreson barber hadn't done another terrible job of shaving him that morning.
She deserved her promotion, but I wish she wasn't so damned smug about it.
But it was entitled to publish and be damned.
I'm damned if I'll apologize!
Based on the Divine Comedy by the Italian poet Dante, it shows his encounter with souls damned for the sins of the flesh.
These _vague_ articles, intended for a more vague performance, are the things which have damned our reputation in India. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
They published two blogposts (here and here) that were both meant to make those damned 'fatties' feel good about themselves, stop hatin 'on Marie Claire and not cancel their magazine subscriptions. Josh Shahryar: Dear Marie Claire and Media: Fat People Are People, Too
Especially when those damned soft eyes of hers quietly beseeched him. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Many statistics may be damned lies, but nothing could be more indicative of how rugby has changed than one relating to the opening of Murrayfield in 1925.
He snoozes for another half hour or so before Jim rousts him with the determined decision to get off this damned hill and out of the rain.
Winded for a moment, he pulled himself up, damned himself for an old fool, and tried to get back to his feet.
Which is why trying to reinflate the financial bubble (with the Summers/Geithner bailout) and the housing bubble (with that goddamned idiotic home-buyer tax credit) is a suicidal course of action. Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
As Luther perceived, the Christian heart is fully aware that it continues in sin and in grace together, as a sinner and damned as such, and as a child of God already elect.
Of course the right is doing its damnedest to make me like her, with gay-baiting and slavery-defending their most offensive opening bids. All about Kagan « Gerry Canavan
And with lipstick and mascara and a spray of perfume she looked damned well sexy!
Critics come in vastly varying styles: from subtle, self-effacing, and sardonic, to oracular, vatic, apocalyptic, to plain damned intelligent.
Crawford damned the ‘naysayers and negativism that surrounds us’ and said he had no doubt that the course on which the agency had been set was the right one.
It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned.
And they say, these damned doctors can't make up their minds, to hell with them, just bring out the bacon and eggs and don't worry about it.
The book is okay but honestly, it's really just kind of slogging along issue to issue and I think it's going to be better in trades anyway, John Cassaday's covers be damned. IFanboy
Meanwhile Birkin slowly uncovers the wall-painting, which shows the righteous trooping smugly off to heaven while the damned dive towards hell.
To hell with all these damned reasons, we said, they must make an effort to improve their educational performance.
According to Haiti's consul in Brazil, George Samuel Antoine, the fault lay with macumba, or African spiritism, and the race: "The African himself is damned. Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
She damned herself with one stupid remark.
To him he says that, if the King's occulted guilt does not come out ( 'unkennel itself'), he (Hamlet) will look upon the apparition as a damned ghost, and (this is new) will think that his 'imaginations are as foul as Vulcan's stithy.' Shakspere and Montaigne
Even the much lauded Henrik Larsson looks more keen on setting up than sticking the damned ball in the flaming net.
And just think now, if the damned corrupt DNC et al, hadnt SELECTED BO instead of allowing our voters votes FOR HILLARY to stand her as our ELECTED nominee, and if they hadn't given away her delegates to the twirp whose policy is an empty-suited mere mimicking of the master he followed on the campaign trail and copied, who knows what she's really doing. Superwoman...
I've been a damn 'fool if you want to know -- the biggest, damnedest fool on the face of creation. The Lamp in the Desert
• There's a touch of "out, damned spot" about Will's return to the bloodsplatter on his paintwork• I'd have liked to see more of Tanya this week – are we worried about the fact we saw her take a pill while in the committee room? Rubicon: episode 12
The "gallant failure" had been the biggest botch since the Kabul Retreat, thanks to the idiot Maximilian, who was damned if he'd be rescued, so there, and I'd come off by the skin of my chattering teeth and the good offices of that gorgeous little fire-eater, Princess Aggie Salm-Salm, and Jesus Montero's gang of unwashed bandits who were on hand only because Jesus thought I knew where Montezuma's treasure was cached, more fool he. Watershed
Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play. Archive 2009-05-01
Would it not be better if you allow me to submit my material in my customary form and then turn it over to Carol, a damned brilliant girl, to inject the kind of flossy conclusions your readers have come to expect? Centennial
We positioned ourselves near the front of the stage, over on Captain's side for The Damned's performance.
But both, I think, suffered the tortures of the damned, because they worried so much about whether they were getting it right.
She deserved her promotion, but I wish she wasn't so damned smug about it.
She also wished he didn't sound so damned exotic.
The funny thing about all this is that just last week I was having despondent ‘I've hit my peak in this damned career!’
He's got to get out there and tell the American people -- over and over again, "overexposure" be damned -- what he is fighting for, and why. Chris Weigant: The "Let Obama Be Obama" Moment
Though he damned the prime minister for the war he did not demand his resignation or rule out future cooperation with him or his successor.
I'll be damned if I can figure out who goes to these things, aside from those who are jollied along by their employer.
The link was pretty damned snarky and all about Martin Peretz and the alabaster quality of The New Republic.
We are re-writing a film script at the direct request of a studio, preparing a television series pitch, I'm writing a science fiction novel with my mentor Larry Niven, writing the third Tennyson Hardwick detective novel with my wifie, researching a contemporary thriller involving quantum physics, National Security, and the damnedest cult you ever saw. Archive 2009-07-01
Surely no one could look so damned irresistible after the day she'd had.
The person who barges in most often these days is my highly conservative, self-proclaimed fundamentalist Christian roommate, who tries his damnedest to stop my heathen ways.
Said the geezer to the guiser, "I'll be damned if I will. The Geezer and the Guiser
I damned myself for become so wrapped up in the conversation.
The flames of hell are literally consuming the bodies of the damned.
That kind of nancy-pantsed liberal communism makes us sick to our goddamned balls. Another crap sitcom for NBC?
You've always worked hard your whole life, you'll be damned if you'll put all that effort into something if there ain't no pot of gold at the end of this dumb-ass rainbow…
The Damned were the first to publish a punk rock single, the first punk band to tour the States and influencers of countless other bands.
She watched impassively while he undamped me, and I took a few staggering and damned painful steps, catching at that hellish wheel for support. Fiancée
And while she knows a lot of big words like erinaceous, she's also very good at simplifying them: "Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult. Archive 2008-10-01
Where the hell are all the damned commuters when you need them?
There was power behind such eyes, power that could damn a soul or return the damned to life.
The scenes in the subterranean offices of the Admiralty are remarkably subdued; the war seems to be a deuced spot of bother bound to blow over any day now, but damned unpleasant in the clinch, eh?
Had Cleveland done naught else evil he would have damned himself everlastingly by pulling this intumescent jay out of a Nebraska turnip-patch to make him a cabinet clerk. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
One day I learned in school about an alexandrine--and even today I still remember that an alexandrine was a type of poem some oldtimer wrote honoring Alexander the Great--and how an alexandrine fit a certain pattern based on syllabic time counted by iambs and I'll be damned if I learned where the caesuras go. Poetic Justice
Aye, she's always had the priceless gift of pleasing, has Elspeth, and making people laugh - for she's a damned funny woman when she wants to be, a top-hole mimic, and all the more engaging because she plainly hasn't got two brains to rub together. Watershed
Snobbery be damned, he thought, here was a bunch of actors provoking the kind of wild, untempered enthusiasm he could only dream about.
For every vision of a genetically crafted wunderkind, think of the legions of genetically damned who could inherit the Brave New World of bioengineering if it runs amok.
Did Ivan really have business to attend to every damned day or did he just have a reason for avoiding them?
Damned uncomfortable, too, but something told me grateful babblement wouldn't be in order, so I said as steadily as I could: Fiancée
He rejects the ideas that hell will be emptied at the end of time and that the damned souls and demons will be reconciled with God.
And the whole fire seemed to be full o 'lile deevils that were shooting out their tongues at me; and the sparks were the souls of the damned i' hell that tried to lowp up the chimley out o 'the deevils' road. More Tales of the Ridings
I'm sorry for being so damned insensitive in the first place, and I'm sorry about the whole Steve thing.
Her regular newsletters to her team of escorts -- which are distressingly disrespectful, calling them "bimbos" and "damned fools" -- repeatedly exhorted the women to destroy any notes about the appointments, and to prevent clients from taking cell-phone pictures and videos during the session. A Meticulous Data Trail May Have Saved 'D.C. Madam'
Sexual mischief was again on the menu with a delightful excerpt from Don Giovanni, as Ewan Taylor charmed devilishly as Mozart's willingly damned Lothario.
It may seem like I write only an apologia for the action we took, to support that publicly damned legislation.
There shouldn't be signs on the highway exhorting people to swim with the goddamned endangered manatees.
But much more then that, how moronic is it to join in a field ... to go thru a 4 year program (no matter how worthless it may be) without, apparently, knowing that the beginning pay is around $32K or so a year ... a damned good wage for a 182 day per year job. Sound Politics: "Ample provision" is a function of both funding and expenses
I just did something so goddamned stupid.
He certainly feels like he is being unfairly damned.
In his early 30s, sitting by the fire after dinner, he suffered from a "vastation" that came upon him suddenly, without preparation; it presented itself to him visually, viscerally, as "some damned shape squatting invisible to me within the precincts of the room. Serendip's Exchange
Those who have damned Woods's second consecutive Masters win as dull have short memory spans.
If she wrecked that damned bike, he was going to torch it.
In other words, give me my gold, you copper-pinching skinflint, or find your own damned specimens from now on.
Jag wanted to snap at her, ask her where the hell she got off sounding so damned wise, but something in her sage words made sense.
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Christianity makes things worse by teaching the torments of the damned.
It is a damned unhandy thing to hunt with in a lot of other situations, too. Why Shorter is Better
The holy Bible (I say) assigneth no locall or bodily situation beneath the earth, or vpon the earth, or in any other place of this world, to that prison of the damned: but it affirmeth that this earth shall perish, and that a new earth, and new heauens shall be created for the habitation of iust and holy men, Reuel. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
I thought I'd actually got rid of the damned things.
Why is it then that there are these damned drop-kicks out there who still pollute the pages of this section slinging off at our PM?
The painting was damned by the reviewers.
poor damned souls
Now all of a sudden she is right on the surge and Iran ... the screwiest damned thing ... McCain Says Palin Is Doing "Numerous" Interviews In Next Couple Of Days
It's a goddamned movie, and, let's be honest here, there are many more productive things to be than a goddamn filmmaker.
He created sleeves for Nick Lowe, the Damned, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and more — many of which cleverly subverted art movements such as dada and constructivism. Archive 2008-11-01
Indeed no others are damned, except those who are the subjects of this act of preterition. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
Sometimes, thinking of the pure instincts thwarted in every heart, -- of the noble traits in damned souls, sent hellwards by birth or barred into temptation by society, a vision flashed before him of some scheme of the universe where all matter and mind were rising, slowly, through the ages, to eternal life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
The damned and accursed are convicted to the flames of hell.
I sought additional material from Galloway and other sources to bolster that defense and to my surprise, found more that damned him than supported him.
Damned few folks who post in threads like this realize just how pernicious the goat-blowing culture is for progressives: and this thread (and every other one Anthony, Paulie Carbone, et al, participate in) proves it. Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum
For one thing, the bad acting and script-writing lend it a certain callousness: not only does a man skip off to church and leave the dead body of his buddy by the side of the road, but Pirkle singles him out during his sermon and tells him in front of a crowded room that his pal is damned forever and that he likely is, too. Archive 2007-09-01
Later on we learned that Cornelius had been allowed to overrun by an hour, curfew be damned.
All you need is a loader and lighter, and some nutter to hold the damned thing (him).
Yet it was not the wolf-cry, for long ago the malformation of a healing throat-wound had distorted the bell-like cry into a hideous scream like the shriek of a soul foredamned, which quavered loud and shrill upon the keen air and ended in a series of quick jerks, like stabs of horrible laughter. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
From time to time people make the point that some really interesting, major events in tetrapod history must have occurred in ancient Antarctica – if only it wasn’t for that damned ice sheet. More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest
‘You're always damned by the exception,’ Hill says with the slightest trace of a smile.
The incident has been damned by local councillor Cronin, who said that the boys and their families had been severely traumatised by the events.
It is said that those who fail to appear before Neptunus Rex are forever damned as pirates, and no shellback shall ever tread upon the deck of a pollywog without incurring the wrath of said monarch. Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday
Obama's rejection of another debate is perfectly understandable to all, but I think Gary Cohen's blog calling for a more proactive Obama on other hot news issues would help him grab that damned batton away from her. Hillary Challenging Obama To Free-Form Debates
It was the damnedest thing, Spencer, and I never knew just why, but that old man loved you. Free Excerpt 3/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
Nilsen: I'm doing my damnedest to get Big Questions done. Talking Comics with Tim: Anders Nilsen | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Probably, but damned if this doesn't give an interesting alternative solution to a plethora of poorly etymologized or unetymologized words in Greek using a fresh non-IE perspective: The hidden face
Christ is the Divine Judge, a still point in the vortex of the living and the dead, the elect levitating to eternal life, the damned descending into the dark abyss.
No prizes for guessing what has caused this temporary regression into childhood… this damned infernal blog!
It's those damned cyclists speeding up behind without warning, scaring the living daylights out of you as they whizz past, that are the menaces.
On the walls and ceiling, his pen and ink drawings depicted only the divine, the sacred, the holy, and the damned.
He thought of all those traveling men with their quills and parchments, with their boats and their spears, and if he had possessed a compass, he would have taken it up to rechart the world before him, tygers be damned. 2008 June | Entrekin
John Gielgud, playing Othello at Stratford in 1961, was less happy, complaining that Hall's costumes were "beautiful but cumbrous" and that the elaborate production stalled while Zeffirelli leafed through "his damned press cuttings". Peter J Hall obituary
The goddamned old ways, fighting toward the surface.
It's most annoying that you claim to be a friend of his, because I'd like to toast you for your infernal effrontery in bringing that damned amulet here.
I think deep-frying may tend to make you get fat, not because it puts more fat in the food, but because it makes the food taste so damned good!
She swept with her tongue the whole three hundred million Indians into one vile horde and de-sexed, disinherited, declassed, and damned the lot of us. The Lion of Petra
We are making a damned good profit, I tell you that.
Fuckm'polities 'Clark thought as he pulled back onto the road Office politics Political politics And some thing was wrong at home, too Clark didn't know what, but he knew it was something Doc, you're too damned good a man for this' The Sum of all Fears
he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool
We had a totally excellent weekend, which, if I wrote up in exhaustive detail, would be fun, but I'm too damned tired to right now and experience tells me if I don't do it right away I never will. June 5th, 2006
I'm damned if I will lend any money to that lazy son of mine.
A magazine photographer wrote in the guest book: "Almost being killed and then killing, by stoning a rattlesnake, was pretty damned primal.
‘Well, I'll be damned,’ Jerry sputtered.
It is indescribably rich, achingly lovely, and utterly goddamned beautiful.
+ So-called negative reprobation, which is commonly defended by those who maintain election to glory antecedently to foreseen merits, means that simultaneously with the predestination of the elect God either positively excludes the damned from the decree of election to glory or at least fails to include them in it, without, however, destining them to positive punishment except consequently on their foreseen demerits. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
This harsh dismissal could be seen as a somewhat cruel move - provided it wasn't so goddamned funny, of course.
In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
Anyone, consequently, who rejects the papal church and its dogmas, also rejects God and is eternally damned.
They didn't renumber the damned thing and they went back to X-Men later, so that's what I call it, consarnit! Your favorite X-Men Era! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
I'll be goddamned if I allow this outrageous assertion to pass uncontested.
Aye, that was it - and it was romantic, too, the departing warrior tupping up the girl he was going to leave behind, and she full of love and wistful longing and be-damned. The Sky Writer
After the Last Judgment, the damned, by contrast, were to be eternally punished in their physical bodies, reversing the process of regurgitation and resurrection.
Collections I found it in a very old drawing, that he has published, in which St. Patrick is represented visiting hell, and putting the devils into great confusion by his presence, of whom one that is driving the damned before him with a prong, has a label issuing out of his mouth with these words, OUT OUT ARONGT, of which the last is evidently the same with _aroint_, and used in the same sense as in this passage. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Then, almost in the blink of an eye, it was being damned by environmentalists as a major polluter of our inland waters, a blight on the landscape, a hazard to health, and a threat to other wildlife.
That damned biograph left too much unsaid, particularly apparent to a brawn trainee. The Ship Who Sang
Until an apology was forthcoming, he was damned if he was going to get in touch with her.
I’m going to town to see a specialist about this damned cinchonism, Linda. The Fashion in Shrouds
Damned if you do, damned if you don't digitize, that is... Archive 2008-07-09
Jew would rather die than labor on the sabbath; the Persian would endure suffocation, before he would blow the fire with his breath; the Indian places supreme perfection in besmearing himself with cow-dung, and pronouncing mysteriously the word Aum; * the Mussulman believes he has expiated everything in washing his head and arms; and disputes, sword in hand, whether the ablution should commence at the elbow, or finger ends; ** the Christian would think himself damned, if he ate flesh instead of milk or butter. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
Okay, wise guy, if you're so damned smart, you can tell everyone how it's done!
I did my damnedest to persuade her.
Miss Brown, I'll give in, that you and Mr. Brown _do_ act up to your principles; you certainly _act_ as if you were willing to be damned '; -- and so do all those folks who will live on the blood and groans of the poor Africans, as the Doctor said; and I should think, by the way Newport people are making their money, that they were all pretty willing to go that way, -- though, whether it's for the glory of God, or not, I'm doubting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
Merry collapsed on a heap of mud, and the bull tried his damnedest to get him.
Frankly, I now think that the damned bloodwork is probably influenced by what you eat or solar flares or something, but our daughter is genetically normal. Dark, Update | Her Bad Mother
If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
The ones currently on this blog are so goddamned five-and-dime. Think Progress » Rep. Frank Wolf claims trying terror suspects in civilian courts would be treating them better than our military.
However, there are times when I want to be able to enter a bar and have a highball and a ciggy, health concerns be damned.
Who was it who came up with that famous line about "lies, damned lies and statistics"?
We walked into one of the damnedest ambushes you ever seen.
I started to give the outhaul a good yank to get the foot of the main tight and the damned thing came off in my hand along with a piece of the sail containing the clew.
He stuck his head in the window and they confabbed for a minute, and then he turned to me and said, with the most magnificent air you ever saw, like a chap buying a set of diamond studs, ` My friend here is a great personal friend of Dr Congleton, and it's a damned -- -- I mean it's an uncommonly delicate matter. The Lunatic At Large

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