tarnation

Now you go 'long back to the house, Marm Winthrop, and if riding 'longside of a popish priest don't speerit me into the bottomless pit, I'll be blamed if I don't go some day into his church and find out what all that tarnation lingo means.

Some time in the month o' August, I think it wur, I found myself in London wi'out a tarnation cent.