Vulgar words in The Jungle (Page 1)
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He is a beef-boner, and that is a dangerous trade, especially when you are on piecework and trying to earn a bride.
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There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour, but, perhaps, these people have never looked into a beef-boner's hands.
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After that he no longer made love to her with his fiddle, but they would sit for hours in the kitchen, blissfully happy in each other's arms; it was the tacit convention of the family to know nothing of what was going on in that corner.
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Of the butchers and floorsmen, the beef-boners and trimmers, and all those who used knives, you could scarcely find a person who had the use of his thumb; time and time again the base of it had been slashed, till it was a mere lump of flesh against which the man pressed the knife to hold it.
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"God damn it, I say-answer me!"
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Then he began to-to make love to me.
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Well, if he made love to your wife, why didn't she complain to the superintendent or leave the place?"
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Damn it, I would pay you if I could, but I tell you I haven't got it.
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The first time that the little rascal burst out with "God damn," his father nearly rolled off the chair with glee; but in the end he was sorry for this, for Antanas was soon "God-damning" everything and everybody.
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Guv'ner gone abroad-Bubby on's honeymoon-Polly havin' twins-every damn soul gone away!
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Made it all out of hogs, too, damn ole scoundrel.
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"Hamilton, you damn ole scoundrel," he roared, "I'll 'scharge you for impudence, you see 'f I don't!
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"Damn you, don't you hear me?"
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Yet when he had thought of all humanity as vile and hideous, he had somehow always excepted his own family that he had loved; and now this sudden horrible discovery-Marija a whore, and Elzbieta and the children living off her shame!