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I ain't oversqueamish, but that is too confounded mean!

From Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute by Alger, Horatio

It was a lengthy ditty, and in its wording not oversqueamish; the Queen’s career in England was detailed without any stuttering, and you would have found the catalogue unhandsome.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

It was a lengthy ditty and in its wording not oversqueamish; the Queen's career in England was detailed without any stuttering, and you would have found the catalogue unhandsome.

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green