"Doggone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... raging, "By golly, here they go and use up all the towels, every doggone one of 'em, and they use 'em and get 'em all wet and sopping, and never put out a dry one for me—of course, I'm the goat!—and then I want one and—I'm the only person in the doggone house that's got the slightest doggone ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... Talk about luck! Why, at a thousand dollars a week, I can pay old Sudden off in a month, doggone him. And have a thousand to the good. And if the job holds out for ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... "Doggone these here reports," he commented in exasperation. "Looks like a man hadn't ought to make out one every time he ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... "Doggone it all, Cap'n!" yelled the angry man, "why in hell don't ye let me know when ye're goin' to sling 'er across seas? Here I had the table all set fur breakfast, an' ye put 'er inter a grayback afore I could hold on to anything; and smash goes the hull mess on the floor—plates, forks, vittles. Holee ...
— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry
... wouldn't take it, Enoch. Don't do it." The doctor cleared his throat again, but this time he had no trouble to keep the corners of his mouth down. His sympathy robbed him for the time of the humor in the situation. "No, I wouldn't do it—doggone ef I would." ...
— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... in his chair. "Now comes the kicker. I suggest that we make the hull of foot-thick lux metal and line it on the inside with relux wherever we want it to be opaque. And we want relux shutters on the windows. Lux is too doggone transparent; if we came too close to a hot ...
— Islands of Space • John W Campbell
... for July looks "doggone good" and suggestive to the imagination. You might increase the ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various
... "You doggone wild-hoss wrangler!" he ejaculated, with starting eyes and healthy grin. "Shore I begin to get your hunch. Honest, I never till this heah minnit thought so damn much of your idee. You shore gotta excuse me. ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... at his watch and at the clock again]: It ought to be wound up for meetings. [He steps upon a chair; moves the hands of clock.] There, doggone it, the key's lost! I believe Mrs. Simpson took that key for their own clock. [He goes to the table; sits, unrolls the typewritten sheets, puts on his spectacles, and studies the sheets in a kind of misery, roughing his hair badly and making sounds ...
— The Gibson Upright • Booth Tarkington
... it's about time to get up. It jest struck five. Doggone, it's been blowin' cats and dogs outside, ain't ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... sneered. "There ain't nothin' here but rent an' taxes—doggone if I don't quit. There's plenty to do this here mindin' work, an' I bet I could make more at the factory. They're payin' grand ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... "This here ain't no way to treat a man. I ain't done nothin'. There ain't no occasion whatever for a gun play. What d'you want, anyhow? I'm no bad hombre. And me sleepin' so peaceable, too, when you shoved the hardware into my pantry, doggone it." ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine |
