Vulgar words in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories (Page 1)

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ass x 3
cocky x 1
damn x 2
fag x 1
hussy x 2
            
jackass x 1
pimp x 1
            

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"You will allow me to say, and without apologies for my language, DAMN the money!"

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I This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright-coloured flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile.

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As regards his health-and the rest of the things-the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.

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Damn these people who are always forgetting that!

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This was maddening, and I came near bursting out and saying he had no more appreciation of wit than a jackass-in fact, I had it right on my tongue, but did not say it, knowing there was no hurry and I could say it just as well some other time over the telephone.

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He stands vast and conspicuous, and conceited and self-satisfied, and roosterish and inconsequential, at Lueger's elbow, and is proud and cocky to be in such a great company.

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'Yes, keep quiet, pimp!'

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Then we had two more hours of dull trudging and ultimate silence and depression; then, about dawn, we straggled into New London, soiled, heel-blistered, fagged with our little march, and all of us except Stevens in a sour and raspy humour and privately down on the war.

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One of the very boys who refused to go out on picket duty that night, and called me an ass for thinking he would expose himself to danger in such a foolhardy way, had become distinguished for intrepidity before he was a year older.

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They just dote on that hussy-can't seem to get enough of her.

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Sei ruhig, you hussy!

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