Vulgar words in The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (Page 1)

This book at a glance

beat (one's) brains out x 1
buffoon x 1
damn x 2
fag x 2
spunk x 1
            

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"But if they had hurt you, I would beat their brains out with my hands.

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There was Tip Smith, destined by his freckles and red hair to be the buffoon in all our games, though he walked like a timid little old man and had a funny, cracked laugh.

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Nils dropped one word, "Damn!" and whipped after her; but she leaned forward in her saddle and fairly cut the wind.

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"Nils will be ashamed of me; I haven't got any spunk."

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Phelps, here, is fond of saying that he could buy and sell us all out any time he's a mind to; but he knew Harve wouldn't have given a tinker's damn for his bank and all his cattle farms put together; and a lack of appreciation, that way, goes hard with Phelps.

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"It seems to me that you are looking rather fagged, Caroline.

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Had he ever known a place called Cordelia Street, a place where fagged-looking businessmen got on the early car; mere rivets in a machine they seemed to Paul,--sickening men, with combings of children's hair always hanging to their coats, and the smell of cooking in their clothes.

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