Vulgar words in A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (Page 1)

This book at a glance

boob x 3
buffoon x 1
damn x 4
jackass x 1
snag x 1
            

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Damn it, I never saw such an absolute boob as she was.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 297   ~   ~   ~

I told her what a liar I was and how all the stuff I pulled from the auction stand was the bunk and how she was a boob for falling for it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 407   ~   ~   ~

Things are too damn fast to suit me.

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Fill up the street and begin their damn shooting.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 982   ~   ~   ~

The Booths and Barretts from antiquity down, the Mrs. Siddonses and Pattis, the Cyranos, Hamlets, buffoons and heroes.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,748   ~   ~   ~

His damn pig.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,825   ~   ~   ~

Here he comes, his pointed button shoes, his razor-edged trousers, his natty tan overcoat with its high waist band and its amazing lapels that stick up over his shoulders like the ears of a jackass, here he comes embroidered and scented and looking like a cross between a soft-shoe dancer and a somnambulist.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,990   ~   ~   ~

"Aw, he's a boob.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,937   ~   ~   ~

But at night in his bedroom when he started to write he hit a snag.

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