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any of Dorothy Sayers detective stories...my favourite is The Nine Tailors.
That was posted earlier in the month - but note the Word-for-the-Day of December 26 just past:
“...It was a pitch–black beast of a night, and I felt as if there was hundreds of eyes watching me…Ever seen those bells? Talk about the heebie-jeebies!…I’m not what you’d call fanciful in a general way but there was something about the bells that gave me the fantods …they look as if they were going to come down on you…”
--Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors, p.249. My copy is an old Harvest/HBJ paperback, c 1962.
So there are people out there who really do use these words! (or, at least, there were)
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