"Arrah, botheration t' yez!
"St. Patrick's Eve"
Charles James Lever
"botheration take you, Walt," exclaimed Ralph, in comic petulance; "you're the original laddie with a bucket of cold water.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
This is, perhaps, one reason why geographers call our part of the globe the temperate zone; because all our proposed and anticipated pleasures, that depend in the slightest possible degree upon the weather, are sure to be tempered and qualified by some unexpected botheration on the part of the weather.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames