Vulgar words in Southern Lights and Shadows (Page 1)

This book at a glance

bugger x 2
cuss x 3
damn x 2
spunk x 1
white trash x 2
            

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Dan, don't--" "I'll cry if I damn please!"

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He had a cuss with him that was no better'n him; an' when it come to the time in the signin' that our names was put down, an' my wife was to be 'examined privately and apart'--ez is right an' lawful--ez to whether I'd made her sign or not, this other cuss steps with her into the hall, an' Dickert turns an' says to me, 'You git a thousand dollars each fer your land--you an' that woman,' he says.

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The other cuss he was down on the floor, sorter whimperin' an' workin' over this feller Dickert; an' he begun to yell that I'd killed 'im.

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Looks like I cain't do nothin' for my own woman--a-givin' an' a-givin' to Huldy, like she was some po' white trash, some beggar!"

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It had gone all over both Turkey Tracks that Sam Overholt declared he would never darken Pap Overholt's door again--Pap Overholt, who had tried to make a pauper of him, loading him with gifts and benefits, like he was shif'less, no-'count white trash!

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Ole bugger-man, come down the chimbly 'n' ketch this bad gal.

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Come, come, I _know_ ye've forgot that ole bugger-man that stays up th' chimbly 'n' ketches bad gals!

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We've no proof of anything--" "Damn proof!"

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"I didn't know Sissy had so much spunk," he muttered, panting in her wake at last across the shinn-oak prairie.

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