Vulgar words in Selected Stories of Bret Harte (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
buffoon x 1
cuss x 5
damn x 9
god damn x 1
            
make love x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 96   ~   ~   ~

The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and maternal condition in the settlement was an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 116   ~   ~   ~

"The damned little cuss!" he said, as he extricated his finger, with perhaps more tenderness and care than he might have been deemed capable of showing.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 120   ~   ~   ~

"He rastled with my finger," he remarked to Tipton, holding up the member, "the damned little cuss!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 137   ~   ~   ~

"Rastled with it,--the damned little cuss," he said, and retired.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 157   ~   ~   ~

"Mind," said the treasurer, as he pressed a bag of gold-dust into the expressman's hand, "the best that can be got,--lace, you know, and filigree-work and frills,--damn the cost!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 161   ~   ~   ~

In that rare atmosphere of the Sierra foothills,--that air pungent with balsamic odor, that ethereal cordial at once bracing and exhilarating,--he may have found food and nourishment, or a subtle chemistry that transmuted ass's milk to lime and phosphorus.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 163   ~   ~   ~

"Me and that ass," he would say, "has been father and mother to him!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 166   ~   ~   ~

He had generally been known as "The Kid," "Stumpy's Boy," "The Coyote" (an allusion to his vocal powers), and even by Kentuck's endearing diminutive of "The damned little cuss."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 416   ~   ~   ~

"Just you go out there and cuss, and see."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,071   ~   ~   ~

"Damn bad," said Brown, his face suddenly assuming an expression of weak despair; "I'm cleaned out again, Jack," he continued, in a whining tone that formed a pitiable contrast to his bulky figure, "can't you help me with a hundred till tomorrow's cleanup?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,081   ~   ~   ~

Mr. Brown of Calaveras essayed an archness of glance, to cover his confusion, which his weak face and whisky-muddled intellect but poorly carried out, and said: "Damn it, Jack, a man must have a little liberty, you know.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,134   ~   ~   ~

"But I'm glad to see you, Jack, damn glad," and he reached from the bed, and again shook the unresponsive hand of Jack Hamlin.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,143   ~   ~   ~

But I'm glad to see ye, Jack, damn glad."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,216   ~   ~   ~

Don't be a damn fool.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,222   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the buggy!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,901   ~   ~   ~

A groan burst from McSnagley, an expression of astonishment from the schoolroom, a yell from the windows, as Mliss brought her red fist down on the desk, with the emphatic declaration: "It's a damn lie.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,985   ~   ~   ~

He say, 'God damn thief!--catchee flowty dollar: come to jailee.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,105   ~   ~   ~

Damn nonshense b'long dead man.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,957   ~   ~   ~

And then they came up to Barker with tears in their eyes, dropped their heads on his shoulder, and murmured exhaustedly: "You blessed ass!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,113   ~   ~   ~

Was it not a spiritual weakness in him to have resented so sharply the girl's imputation that he wished to make love to her?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,715   ~   ~   ~

"And--hang it all!--you don't want her to believe you a common buffoon., or some intoxicated muchacho."

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