Vulgar words in Birthright - A Novel (Page 1)

This book at a glance

buffoon x 6
damn x 7
hooker x 1
hot damn x 1
hussy x 3
            
slut x 1
snag x 1
            

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Damn it!

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Damn it!

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"I suttinly don' want no light-fingered hussy ma'yin' my son," proceeded the voice, "an' de whole Dildine fambly 'll bear watchin'."

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"But, Mother--" he began defensively, "I--" "Me sweatin' over de wash-pot," the negress went on, "so's you could go up North an' learn a lil sense; heah you comes back chasin' a dutty slut!"

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I tol' you to keep away fum dat hussy.

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When he looked around at Jim Pink again, the buffoon's face was a caricature of immense mirth.

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"Damn it, sir!" he flared out.

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"Damn 'f I don't."

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I can say this for Henry's religion: 'It's jest like Henry's wife,--it's the dearest thing to his heart; he'd give his life for it, but it don't do nobody a damn bit of good except jest Henry.'"

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They're funny damn things, niggers is; never know a care nor trouble.

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This violated a Hooker's-Bend convention, which decrees that when a white and a black meet on the sidewalk, the black man invariably shall take the outer side.

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"Why, right in front o' dis house, dat's wha; ever' day when dat hussy passes up to de Arkwrights', wha she wucks.

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The buffoon would have collided with Peter, but the mulatto caught Jim Pink by the arm and shoulder, brought him to a halt, and at the same time helped him keep his feet.

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He climbed the hill in silence, wondering just what the buffoon meant.

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The buffoon was the crudest thing in this world--a man who thought himself a wit.

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"Hot damn you!

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Peter knew that Jim Pink, who now made a sorry figure in their rear, would one day give a buffoon's mimicry of this his walk to death.

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I didn't exactly understand the women's clothes business,--damn' fool disguise,--but we figgered it might pop into the head of a' edjucated nigger."

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Between the two, there is little doubt that the accolade of fame bestowed in the buffoon's simple melody is more vital and enduring than that accorded by special act of the Congress of the United States of America.

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Here and there over the broad clay-colored water moved other boats--tow-boats, a string of government auto-barges, a snag-boat, another packet.

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