Lexicographical Neighbors of Goddams
Literary usage of Goddams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes by Charles Anthony Shriner (1918)
"The English were called by the French peasants, who did not understand their
language, "the goddams." The heroes of Agin- court were thus named, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"boy say to another that my wife and I were two " goddams. ... The question of
Joan of Arc and " goddams" has already been discussed in ' N. & Q.' (see 4th ..."
3. A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman (1884)
"How the redoubtable Tournelles was taken by steel and culverin, and how Joan
succeeded in bringing back many hundred goddams, has become matter of history. ..."
4. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1912)
"If," said Joan of Arc, " there were a hundred thousand more goddams in France
than there are to-day, they should not have this kingdom. ..."
5. The history of France, tr. by R. Black. (Vol. 6-8 ed. by madame de Witt). by François Pierre G. Guizot (1873)
"... these English will put me to death; but were they a hundred thousand more
goddams than have already been in France, they shall never have the kingdom. ..."
6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"Considering that Englishmen had obtained on the Continent the nickname of "goddams,"
so far back as the days of Joan of Arc, it is amusing to find an ..."
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