Vulgar words in A Double Barrelled Detective Story (Page 1)

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cuss x 1
damn x 2
fag x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 478   ~   ~   ~

After a brief silence, Pat Riley, miner, said: "He's the 15-puzzle, that cuss.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 748   ~   ~   ~

He lays those snips and that dirt out on the table and leans over them on his elbows, and puts them together side by side and studies them-mumbles to himself, 'Female'; changes them around-mumbles, 'Six years old'; changes them this way and that-again mumbles: 'Five teeth-one a-coming-Catholic-yarn-cotton-kip-damn that kip.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 749   ~   ~   ~

Then he straightens up and gazes toward heaven, and plows his hands through his hair-plows and plows, muttering, 'Damn that kip!'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,161   ~   ~   ~

They were always whispering around my bed and plotting against me, and it broke my sleep and kept me fagged out, because I got no good rest.

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