teetotally

Example Sentences

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"I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was allers teetotally down on it, an I thought I should persuade him out of it, an tharby save the great disgrace an stane it would be on our country.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

In due time he "experienced religion," and at this moment is an active abolitionist, a patron of the temperance cause teetotally, and a general terror to evil-doers, under the appellation of Deacon Bolt.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore

“Well,” said Ritchie, “blow me teetotally tight if ever in all my born days I ’eard sich a name as that ’afore.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon

"I ain't agin the new stores," said Hiram, "but I'm teetotally agin chopping prices down on everything and tryin' to beat the other feller."

From Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Pidgin, Charles Felton