botheration

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But the following June, when the cook, wishing to make some ice-cream as a glad surprise for the Sunday dinner, opened the natural ice-chest, she found only a pool of muddy water, and exclaimed, "Botheration!"

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert

"Excuse me," said a very rosy-cheeked little prelate, "but nothing stronger than water—" "Botheration," thought Billy, as he regarded the speaker's nose.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James

Botheration take you, Walt," exclaimed Ralph, in comic petulance; "you're the original laddie with a bucket of cold water.

From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by Goldfrap, John Henry

Then, instead of saying "Rebeck me!" and "Ods Boddikins!" when his hawk bit his finger or something else put him out of humor, he would have exclaimed, "Oh, pshaw!" or, "Botheration!"

From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard

Howe finally broke silence with the first of his articles in the Halifax Chronicle on 'The Botheration Scheme.'

From The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by Colquhoun, A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart)