Vulgar words in The Belted Seas (Page 1)

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cocky x 2
cuss x 1
damn x 1
            

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South Street was full of folk from all over the world, but I walked there as cocky as if I owned it, looking for a ship that pleased me, and I came to one lying at dock with the name _Hebe Maitland_ in gilt letters on a board that was screwed to her, and I says, "Now, there's a ship!"

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He was old, too, and had chicken bones in his hair, and, it was curious, but he knew considerable English, and could cuss skilful in it.

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But it was no use now--"Too damn quick," he said.

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I came to New York and I walked along South Street, thinking of the day, twenty years back, when I first walked along South Street, cocky and green.

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