Vulgar words in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Page 1)
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Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.
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Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 565 ~ ~ ~
"Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balum-Balum's Ass dey call him for short; he's one er dem chuckleheads, you know.
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We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag or something.
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No, you FEEL like you are laying dead still on the water; and if a little glimpse of a snag slips by you don't think to yourself how fast YOU'RE going, but you catch your breath and think, my!
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I reckoned Jim had fetched up on a snag, maybe, and it was all up with him.
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I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough-hadn't the spunk of a rabbit.
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No; some er de niggers foun' her ketched on a snag along heah in de ben', en dey hid her in a crick 'mongst de willows, en dey wuz so much jawin' 'bout which un 'um she b'long to de mos' dat I come to heah 'bout it pooty soon, so I ups en settles de trouble by tellin' 'um she don't b'long to none uv um, but to you en me; en I ast 'm if dey gwyne to grab a young white genlman's propaty, en git a hid'n for it?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 648 ~ ~ ~
The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line-that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away-trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks-rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a woodyard, likely, and piled by them cheats so you can throw a dog through it anywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there, so cool and fresh and sweet to smell on account of the woods and the flowers; but sometimes not that way, because they've left dead fish laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank; and next you've got the full day, and everything smiling in the sun, and the song-birds just going it!
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that is the idea; for Juliet's a dear sweet mere child of a girl, you know, and she doesn't bray like a jackass."
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They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words.
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But the king says: "Cuss the doctor!
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The towhead was a rattling big distance off, away out there in the middle of the river, but I didn't lose no time; and when I struck the raft at last I was so fagged I would a just laid down to blow and gasp if I could afforded it.
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So the king let go of me, and begun to cuss that town and everybody in it.
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Cuss you, I can see now why you was so anxious to make up the deffisit-you wanted to get what money I'd got out of the Nonesuch and one thing or another, and scoop it ALL!"
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I said, "Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;" but he never paid no attention to me; went right on.
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"Cler out from here, you hussy, er I'll take a skillet to ye!"
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It was the most undigestible sawdust I ever see; and Tom said the same./ But as I was saying, we'd got all the work done now, at last; and we was all pretty much fagged out, too, but mainly Jim.
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So every one of them promised, right out and hearty, that they wouldn't cuss him no more.