Worcester, 1846.

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1776.  

        Thinks horn-bugs bullets, or thro’ fears
Muskitoes takes for musketeers.
John Trumbull, ‘M‘Fingal,’ Canto II.    

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1869.  I declare, you’re saucy enough to physic a horn-bug.—H. B. Stowe, ‘Oldtown Folks,’ ch. xxvii.

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1878.  That Bill is saassy enough to physic a hornbug. I never see the beat of him!—The same, ‘Poganuc People,’ ch. x.

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