Vulgar words in The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories (Page 1)

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ass x 2
brain x 1
damn x 3
make love x 1
            

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trade joyousness: "Let us be humbly thankful that he has been spared; and-" "Damn his treacherous hide, I wish-" "Sally!

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Sally's patience broke down at this point, and he said, resentfully: "Damn his livers, he's immortal!"

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It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!" and he got out a pint of spruce-beer and made sacrifice, he saying "Damn the expense," and she rebuking him gently with reproachful but humid and happy eyes.

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I have arranged for her to sleep; she needs it; if you disturb her without my orders, I'll brain you-if you've got the materials for it."

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He is a pretty man to make love known to his superiors, and you, Ambulinia, have done but little credit to yourself by honoring his visits.

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Among these may be mentioned Richard Brinsley Twain, alias Guy Fawkes; John Wentworth Twain, alias Sixteen-String Jack; William Hogarth Twain, alias Jack Sheppard; Ananias Twain, alias Baron Munchausen; John George Twain, alias Captain Kydd; and then there are George Francis Twain, Tom Pepper, Nebuchadnezzar, and Baalam's Ass-they all belong to our family, but to a branch of it somewhat distinctly removed from the honorable direct line-in fact, a collateral branch, whose members chiefly differ from the ancient stock in that, in order to acquire the notoriety we have always yearned and hungered for, they have got into a low way of going to jail instead of getting hanged.

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I used to think that your writings were pretty good, but after reading the criticism in THE GALAXY from the LONDON REVIEW, have discovered what an ass I must have been.

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