Citations:oh my Lord

English citations of oh my Lord

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• 1913 — Jeffery Farnol, The Amateur Gentleman, Chapter X:

  "Ay, but there is. See how red your eyes are; they quite spoil your beauty—"

  "Beauty!" she cried. "Oh, my Lord; even you!"

• 1981 — Thomas W. Netter, "Poles deeply shaken", Williamson Daily News, 14 May 1981:

  At St. John's cathedral in Warsaw's Old City, some women cried "Oh my God! Oh my Lord!" and wept on hearing the announcement, a priest said, adding "We believe that our pope is so strong morally and physically that he will survive and live long."

• 1992 — Jay Apperson, "$11 million goes to three plaintiffs in asbestos trial", The Baltimore Sun, 24 July 1992:

  "Oh my Lord!" said a stunned Geneva McNeil, reached by telephone at her East Baltimore home and told that the jury had awarded $3.3 million to her and her ailing husband.

• 2005 — Patrick Cockburn, "Saddam invites court to 'visit my cage' after witnesses tell of torture", The Independent, 7 December 2005:

  Sometimes bursting into tears and moaning "God is great. Oh my Lord", the woman, who was 16 at the time, told the court in Baghdad what had happened to the women and children from the Shia town of Dujail detained after a failed attempt to assassinate Saddam Hussein in 1982.

• 2011 — Elaine Lipworth, "Rachel Weisz: 'I'm still a blushing bride'", The Telegraph, 20 November 2011:

  Would she like another baby?

  'Absolutely no comment. Oh my Lord, I was asked that recently by a journalist and I think I said, “You never know,” and it was turned into something else entirely.