Lexicographical Neighbors of Damndest
Literary usage of Damndest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman Popul (1907)
"I knew, by the way he said it: 'June, you're the damndest, cheeriest soul I ever
knew ... 'June,' said he, 'you're the damndest, cheeriest ' " "Why, father! ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"Tartas Do Their " damndest " The drama was far beyond the most fantastic imagination.
This attack on the Hindenburg lines before Cambrai has never been ..."
3. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1889)
"Bold Dickie,' High-sheriff said he, ' Yon 're the damndest rascal that ever I see !
Go bring me back the iron yon 've stole, And I will set the prisoner ..."
4. A History of the Adirondacks by Alfred Lee Donaldson (1921)
"Well, I did my damndest anyway." And his damndest proved to be his best. This is
almost the last we hear of the essays. The very next letter announces that ..."
5. A Private in the Guards by Stephen Graham (1919)
"But when some General perverts those lines to " England expects that every tank
will do its damndest," " doing its damndest" rather hits their humour and ..."
6. American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II by Henry Harley Arnold, John W. Huston (2001)
"I am trying my damndest to get this war over in the shortest space of ... I was
trying my damndest to get the maximum efficiency out of an organization. ..."
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