all-fired
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Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have achieved such an effective League of Women Voters or Fair Housing Group.
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It was Albert, not Victoria, who was so all-fired prim and proper that the term Victorian was saddled on her era as a synonym for Puritan rigidity.
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“Well, yes, I do, but ye don’t hev to be in sech a all-fired hurry. I want ye to tell me somethin’.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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There were about ten guys throwing horseshoes, and the clangs and the cheers that came from them made it seem like it was all-fired important—like it probably was to a bunch of chumps.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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There ain't but one man can whip his weight in wildcats and tell the all-firedest yarns out.
From Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake by Horatio Alger
As I brought out with emphasis the "all-firedest, biggest bug," I noticed that a frost fell on the mirth, silence reigned for a moment interrupted only by gasps from the ladies.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
Now," said he, "if this isn't a little the all-firedest muss a feller ever got into, Josh ain't no judge.
From Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes
Ten dollars to the pan'll do it, and it'd be the all-firedest stampede Alaska ever seen.
From Burning Daylight by Jack London
You know McGable in course, and must know he's the all-firedest varmint that tramps.
From The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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