Vulgar words in Over the Top (Page 1)
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Then he gave me a message to write home to his mother and his sweetheart, and I, like a great big boob, cried like a baby.
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We dropped down on our bellies in the shallow trench, bullets knocking up the ground and snapping in the air.
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"I have seen an officer, who wouldn't say 'damn' for a thousand quid, spend five minutes with the old boy, and when he returned, the flow of language from his lips would make a navvy blush for shame.
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Once upon a time the Captain had been on Old Pepper's staff, so he could cuss and blind in the most approved style.
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"The Captain jumped as if he were shot, and let out a great big expressive Damn, and eagerly turned his glasses in the direction of the German road.
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At every slap a big round juicy cuss word would escape from his lips followed by: "'Good, Fine, Marvelous, Pretty Work, Direct Hits, All!
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Damn fine work, I call it.'
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Damn me, get your heels together when I speak!
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Alkali Ike started in and aimed at the right of the line of bottles instead of the left, and the poor boob behind the scenes started breaking the bottles on the left, and then the box-holders turned loose; but outside of this little fiasco the performance was a huge success, and we decided to run it for a week.
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There was one gun in particular which used to get our goats, it had the exact range of our "elephant" dugout entrance, and every evening, about the time rations were being brought up, its bullets would knock up the dust on the road; more than one Tommy went West or to Blighty by running into them.
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He nodded to the Sergeant who disappeared, and I'll be darned if he didn't return with a glass of ale.
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Frost was fidgeting around in a nervous manner, when suddenly with a muffled "damn" and a few other qualifying adjectives, he stooped down, and took the man in his arms like a baby,-- he was no feather either, -- and staggered down the ward with him, put him in bed, and undressed him.
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"Burm" to Tommy is a cuss word, because he has to "go over the top" at night to construct it.