tarnal
Britishadjective
adverb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tarnal
C18: aphetic dialect pronunciation of eternal
Example Sentences
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Rev'rend Doane, it's a tarnal funny yarn but I'll walk into the meetin' house and swear to it on a stack o'Bibles as thick as a cord of wood.
From Year of the Big Thaw by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Then we made him dress up in store clothes, which he did not like a bit, saying: "I don't feel good in the tarnal stuff things, nohow."
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.
"Bout two miles," replied Jim, with what seemed to Harley a derisive grin, "an' it's tarnal lucky for us that it's so near."
From The Candidate A Political Romance by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
Why Philadelphia must be a tarnal nation way off!
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke
A certain thrifty granger of the writer's acquaintance was recently converted from the error of his attitude towards the "tarnal weeds and brush."
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)
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