all-fired
Example Sentences
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Then most of the adults started to gather around the cleared tables and I went over to the deserted horseshoe pits to see what was so all-fired important about throwing horseshoes.
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And I don't mind telling you, too, that she had been making me have considerable of a hard time of it, too; and there warn't no way of contenting her, she was so all-fired pernicketty.
From Project Gutenberg
But there," he added, after a moment, "I expect it seems kind of all-fired lonesome to a city man, don't it now?
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Well, only last week his chickens got so all-fired hungry that they went out on the trail and tried to hold up a bull-train to get some corn.
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I may not be so all-fired smart as you think you are, but I ain't quite a fool.
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