Citations:bally

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 * 1896, George Frank Lydston, Over the Hookah: The Tales of a Talkative Doctor, page 484:
 * When, like a good soldier, he went his rounds the next morning, he found the rank and file very chipper, I thank you, while the 'blooming hofficers,' as Kipling would say, were having a ‘bally time of it’ — those who had not joined the ...
 * 1944, Helen McRuer Morosco and Leonard Paul Dugger, Life of Oliver Morosco: The Oracle of Broadway, written from His Own Notes and Comments:
 * "How are you, old thing?" he queried smilingly. "I had a bally time last night," he went on. "The boys gave me a blow-out on my approaching marriage, you know."
 * 2014, N Quentin Woolf, The Death of the Poet (ISBN 9781847659477):
 * Imagine what a bally time you'll be having of it – lucky if you don't fall flat on your face, at some point. You slip and slide up the pitch, and lose a shoe, perhaps. Now, let's try it once again, but this time with some blighter sitting in the stands, ...