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If hell were raked with a fine tooth comb it is exceedingly doubtful whether any such material could be found there as inhabit this village; and should the devil seek a substitute for hell Jonesboro would qualify.

— William G. Brownlow Jonesboro Whig (1840)

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We intend to fight the secessionists until hell freezes over, and then fight them on ice, Or any other man.

Quoted in The Jeffersonian (1861)

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