Damnder

Blank departed, and [John] Forster arrived; and in the course of the interview [Charles] Dickens, thinking it would please him, took occasion to tell what had been said about him by Blank. “I am very sorry, my dear Dickens,” said Forster, “that I cannot return the compliment, for a damnder ass than your friend Mr. Blank I never met in a business affair!”

Well, Bill Montgomery is a damnder fool than I took him to be. Why, I can follow that track for a week and tell within five minutes of the time he crosses every mud hole on the way. Jim Black never knowed much about the woods, but he ought to have known better than to leave signs as plain as these when he goes hunting such dangerous game as you and me, captain.

“I’ve been a d——d fool, Mag,” he said, trying to smile—“a damnder fool than ever; and that’s saying a good deal——”

Austin, was the fellow’s name, a damnder fool you would not want to see, I thought, when he came to me at Louisville and said, “General, I believe I can help you in this matter.”

Deponent further says that he spurned the offer and turned and left the room, when he was accosted by Mr. Clark Grier, who said to him, “You are a damnder fool than I thought you were.”

For [Arthur] Zimmermann’s faux pas over Japan and Mexico he had about an equal amount of contempt and almost of rage. He told me one day that every man in the German Foreign Office was a damned fool and made a damnder fool of himself every time he got the opportunity.

Some day I may partially forget you, and be able to enjoy another woman, but there’s nothing to show that it’ll be soon. If anything, I’m a damnder fool over you now than I ever was.

“However, there’s no hurry. We have four months to think our plans over.” / “And meanwhile you’ll keep that formula safe and secret,” Derek urged earnestly. / Mark turned towards his wife. / “My dear, I think Derek takes me for a damnder fool than I am. Shall we move?”

The south has sat more or less uncomplaining through dozens of pictures and heard the southern accent being rent limb from limb, but it’s damnder than the damndest damm Yankee if it wants to hear it being mangled in Gone With the Wind.