Buck up, do your damnedest and fight!

"The damnedest thing . . .

"Well, if this ain't the damnedest!"

Would you?" "I'd try my damnedest.

That's where I got my cross; and I take leave to say that it was the damnedest of battles!

"It's the damnedest thing I ever heard of," he muttered.

We had often wondered what the French was for "Do your damnedest!"

He described his outfit as "the damnedest cavalcade that ever man was burdened with; not less than seven horses compose my troop; they convey a close carriage (Jersey stage), a gig and horse cart, so that my family are transported with comfort and convenience, though at considerable expense.

If I walked away from the house to get rid of them, they would follow and hoot at me; and when I reproved them they informed me they were not going "to knuckle under to old Melvyn's darter, the damnedest fool in the world, who's lost all his prawperty, and has to borry money off of pa.

Kodaks clicked, clergymen beamed, ladies said, "How sweetly picturesquepoor dears"; the Captain murmured, "Damnedest scoundrels unhungbut can't leave 'em to starve"; the "poor dears" smiled largely and ate wolfishly; Moussa Isa bled, and the great steamer resumed her way.

Have you anything to say to that?' "'Yes, Colonel.' "'Then say it!' "'Well, Colonel, all I have to say is that there are two of the damnedest, biggest liars that ever lived, right here in this regiment!'

"'I'm not married at all,' he said, 'and I'm the biggest liarand you can ask the boys who the damnedest liar is.'

Why, he said, it was the damnedest thing ever!

If he does, he'll try his damnedest, you can bank on that.

'I have,' said Washington, 'and, by the eternal God, he is the damnedest liar on the face of the earth!'

You know those dreams when you're doing your very damnedest to wake upwhen you struggle and sweat and know you'll die if something doesn't happenwell, it was like that, except that I didn't struggle and swear, but just stood there, like a painted picture, watching....

"I've got twelve of the damnedest fighters aboard my ship that ever lived and ten of them will be in the edge of the woods!" Neil's eyes were shining with something that made Nathaniel turn his own to the loading of his pipe.

"Well, William?" "I can't bring two, but there's one little feller I can lick, and I'll do my damnedest to bring him." SUPERSTITION Superstition is a premature explanation overstaying its time.