Vulgar words in The Call of the Cumberlands (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
boob x 2
cuss x 1
damn x 13
fag x 1
            
make love x 4
white trash x 2
            

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"What damn fool stuff hev ye been tellin' Sally?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 899   ~   ~   ~

I'd like ter invite 'em in, an' let them damn dawgs sniff round the feet of every man in my house--an' then, when they're plumb teetotally damn satisfied, I'd like ter tell 'em all ter go ter hell.

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"Damn him!" muttered Samson, his face twitching, as the other was lost in the undergrowth.

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A stage director, setting a comedy scene with that most ancient of jests, the gawking of boobs at some new sight, could hardly have improved on this tableau.

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"Ye hain't a- goin' ter do no sich--no sich of a damn thing!"

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We hain't got no use fer damn cowards."

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"Sally," the boy reproved, "hit's most mornin', an' ye must be plumb fagged out.

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"When I gits back," he promised himself, "you'll be one of the fust folks I'll look fer, Jim Asberry, damn ye!

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Mentally, he observed: "Po' white trash!"

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His first impression of the boy in the stained suit, slouch hat, and patched overcoat, was much the same as that which the Pullman porter had mentally summed up as, "Po' white trash"; but the Yiddish shopman could not place his prospective customer under any head or type with which he was familiar.

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I don't know how he'd get acquainted with a boob like this."

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"Well," replied Tamarack, with drawling confidence, "ef Samson was hyar, I'd show him, too--damn him!

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I jest lost my head, an' made love ter ye.

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She liked him, too, because it was rare for a man to offer her friendship without making love, and she was certain he would not make love.

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I had ter cuss ye out, or git in trouble myself."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,282   ~   ~   ~

We hain't got no use fer no traitors thet's too almighty damn busy doin' fancy work ter stand by their kith an' kin."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,327   ~   ~   ~

That summer, Mrs. Lescott opened her house on Long Island early, and the life there was full of the sort of gaiety that comes to pleasant places when young men in flannels and girls in soft summery gowns and tanned cheeks are playing wholesomely, and singing tunefully, and making love--not too seriously.

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There hain't no other damn fool in these mountings would 'a' took such a long chance es thet.

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Now, damn yore stingy soul, I gits that ticket or I gits you!"

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"No, damn ye!

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"Don't be an ass, Callomb.

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"Wall, he licked us, an' he licked us so plumb damn hard we was skeered ter fight ag'in, an' then, 'stid of tramplin' on us, he turned right 'round, an' made me a deputy.

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