white of you
The Big List has:... The phrase white of you is first recorded by Edith Wharton in 1913.Benjamin Zimmer at ADS-L has been finding lots of antedates in the last year, so much so that Barry Popik posted...
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Good find, Ozzie. "Deuced" means "damned", and "damned" in place of "very" fits perfectly.
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A little earlier, I think:Ambrose Bierce, "The Night of Election" [poem], in _Black Beetles in Amber_, 1892 [Project Gutenberg]:<<".... / Take -- and God bless you! -- take my overcoat." /...
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Great find, Mr. Wilson. Is it unfair to ask whether you used the Literature Online search engine?
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"Literature Online" is a subscription service, isn't it? I looked at the Web site with this name, and no price was given ... which usually means that the price is far far too high for us regular...
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I believe Literature Online is available at lower rates for students and faculty at certain universities, and was thinking you may have qualified that way. For me and many others, the subscription...
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Amonasro to Aida: "Thanks for giving us the secret info, my dear. Deuced brown of you!"(apologies to G. Verdi and A. Ghizlanzoni)
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