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durn

A vertical member on each side of a door, usually formed of a solid timber.

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I caught him at the cafe, working tables (so deluded!), and all the time he brewed, he brooded.) Chickens don't live long afore they're fried and served with sauces, but I'll be durned if they don't seem to understand their losses.

I wroted up this ditty, and sanged it nice an' pretty

Then for some durned reason, he INCREASED power, which was the straw that broke this camel's back.

Hurried in a Helo

At the beginning of the first act of The Haunted (381) one of the townsmen remarks "that [it] was durned queer" that Ezra died on his first night back from the war, and earlier in the trilogy another townsman pronounces Ezra Mannon's death as being "queer ...

"It's Queer, It's like Fate": Tracking Queer in O'Neill's mourning becomes Electra

I was a little worried about winning that case myself, because that durned bull came home this morning."

A lot of bull

Upon visiting a navy yard and inspecting a ship he is said to have noted, "Why, the durned thing's hollow." While still Secretary he accepted $25,000 as an agent of the French company organized to dig a Panama Canal.