"'Tis true, but zounds!" replied the squire with glee. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
He was in deep awshucks mode, even admitting twice -- zounds!. From Wordnik.com. [Off To The Culture War] Reference
To please my father -- zounds! not to please -- Oh! my father?. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
'All they want then is a couple of field pieces; zounds, sir!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
People need to use these two words more often: bullox and zounds. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
BTW, did you know that zounds! is a foreshortening of God's Wounds?. From Wordnik.com. [Zounds!] Reference
Hmmm…zounds liek ai hab tew draw up an action plan outline fur Nov 2. From Wordnik.com. [Player Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
February 7, 2008 at 10:45 am fear… is zounds liek… Boing boing boing…. From Wordnik.com. [Did you heer dat? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
June 3, 2009 at 7:35 am uh ohes… parrothead starting to zounds like Igor…. From Wordnik.com. [Da dusts bunnies quit - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
December 21, 2007 at 3:06 pm zounds xactlee laik meh, c b… heehee…laik chezbergr! cb!. From Wordnik.com. [skillz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
But, zounds, I like his pride, and his economy too. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
But this proud coxcomb -- zounds, I thought that all. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works] Reference
So I think zounds 'comment is, for once, a bit unfair. From Wordnik.com. [World news: United States | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Why, zounds, Master Isaac! you are not sneering, are you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Duenna] Reference
Why, zounds! your impudence is as great as your ugliness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Duenna] Reference
Well, no-one is proposing openly for it to happen, zounds. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
For his Speech to the Jury -- and zounds! who would grudge. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
Why, zounds, cries Western, who could have thought it?. From Wordnik.com. [X. In Which Mr. Western Visits Mr. Allworthy. Book VI] Reference
Your dirty shirt and ragged elbows are nothing to me -- but zounds!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
Why, zounds, his wife and children were not with him on the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
To please my father! zounds! not to please -- Oh, my father -- odd so!. From Wordnik.com. [The Rivals A Comedy] Reference
'And zounds!' said he (he was a little apt to swear), 'I look'd like a magpie. From Wordnik.com. [The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield] Reference
'Hands off is fair play; zounds, they'll bring the whole country down upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
‘Hands off is fair play; zounds, they’ll bring the whole country down upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering] Reference
'As for gratitude,' he chuckled, 'zounds! that is a wine all the better for the keeping.'. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
"But zounds, sir, you say you are not surprised he has not come to welcome his own father!". From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
The 'sblood' of the sixteenth century must not be confounded with the 'zounds' of the seventeenth. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry IV] Reference
'Od zounds, can't a gentleman talk in his own house? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
(exclaimed Sir John) zounds, what would the girl be at?. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune] Reference
His geese were swans, but, zounds, thy swans are geese. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829] Reference
"Those imps which make the senses reel, and zounds!. From Wordnik.com. [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference
"Why, zounds," cries Western, "who could have thought it?. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
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