Vulgar words in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Page 1)

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ass x 1
cuss x 1
damn x 2
fag x 1
spunk x 8
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 341   ~   ~   ~

By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with-and so on, and so on, hour after hour.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 357   ~   ~   ~

"Why, spunk-water."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 358   ~   ~   ~

"Spunk-water!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 359   ~   ~   ~

I wouldn't give a dern for spunk-water."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 384   ~   ~   ~

Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 386   ~   ~   ~

You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk- water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: 'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,' and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 389   ~   ~   ~

"No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn't have a wart on him if he'd knowed how to work spunk-water.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 260   ~   ~   ~

The half-breed muttered: "THAT score is settled-damn you."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 206   ~   ~   ~

Now there was a voice-a very low voice-Injun Joe's: "Damn her, maybe she's got company-there's lights, late as it is."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 82   ~   ~   ~

The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 464   ~   ~   ~

If she'll let up on some of the roughest things, I'll smoke private and cuss private, and crowd through or bust.

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