"Now what in the tarnal creation would you want up at that place, fella?"

And, besides them plaguy guns, they have got a tarnal nation sight of pistols!

'What in holy tarnal hell has that got to do with what happened to him?'

"Hugh Priest's gone crazy, tarnal fool's busted me right to Christ up!"

I can handle any cattle ever wore a coat of hair, And I've had a lively tussle with a tarnal grizzly bear.

Presently up comes my black waiter, Billy, with a broad grin on his face, and says, "Why, master, them militia men there, sir, are tarnal fools: they do not know nothing at all about stealing.