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Lady O'Dowd is also so attached to it that, she says, if anything were to happen to Mick, bedad she'd come back and marry some of 'em.
1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
But as for the party, bedad, it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session.
1867, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
"Ah, bedad, ye can finish it yourself--it's too expansive for me!"
1875, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Sketches New and Old
May I tempt you to a little more filleted lemon sole, miss Dubedat? Yes, do bedad. And she did bedad.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses