Vulgar words in Tom Sawyer, Detective (Page 1)

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cuss x 5
fag x 1
            

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Well, he couldn't love us enough for it or be grateful enough, poor cuss; it was all he could do to keep from hugging us.

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Another five, and I says to myself, there's two mile and a half behind me, and he's AWFUL uneasy-beginning to cuss, I reckon.

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That cuss could 'a' gone off somers and not been killed at all."

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He raked up everything a person ever could want to kill another person about, and any fool could see they didn't any of them fit this case, and he just made no end of fun of the whole business and of the people that had been hunting the body; and he said: "If they'd had any sense they'd 'a' knowed the lazy cuss slid out because he wanted a loafing spell after all this work.

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We went up every day to see the old people, but it was awful dreary, because the old man warn't sleeping much, and was walking in his sleep considerable and so he got to looking fagged and miserable, and his mind got shaky, and we all got afraid his troubles would break him down and kill him.

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It made the people shiver to think of poor old Uncle Silas toting off the diseased down to the place in his tobacker field where the dog dug up the body, but there warn't much sympathy around amongst the faces, and I heard one cuss say "'Tis the coldest blooded work I ever struck, lugging a murdered man around like that, and going to bury him like a animal, and him a preacher at that."

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