by cracky
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
It wouldn’t shoot, but, by cracky, it worked!”
From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Whipple, Wayne
"But if there's a fellow among us who has as much sand as he had—I—I—-well, by cracky, there isn't any."
From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Crump, Irving
It's him, all right, but, by cracky, the ole devil, as well as myself, has changed consider'ble in his attitude toward the other sex, since last we met!
From When the Cock Crows by Baily, Waldron
That was the kind of a thing I wanted to make a bid for, and, by cracky, I pulled it off.
From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.
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