egad

Egad, I thought, has Schnittman now lost faith in the promise of a vast galactic universe of content?

Yes, egad, I should have taken it for a family face, and one that has been in the family some time too.

Egad, he has contrived to fulfil the prediction in a very different sense.

I've seen 'em trundled out in fever and plague, egad, lying in rows, like plucked chickens in a poulterer's shop.