Vulgar words in The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West (Page 1)

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ass x 1
cuss x 6
damn x 3
spunk x 1
            

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So they said, 'Damn you!

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For profane swearing he rebuked his people: "You Elders in Israel will go to the caƱons for wood, get a little brush-whipped, and then curse and swear--damn and curse your oxen and swear by Him who created you.

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They got along all right with the little one, the one they called John Calvin Sorrow--only the little cuss kicked and scrambled so that we both had to see to him for a minute, and when we was ready for the other, there he was at least ten rods away, a-legging it into the scrub oak.

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He also said, in his subsequent narrative to the Entablature of Truth: "You know I've always took Brother Rae for jest a natural born _not_, a shy little cuss that could be whiffed around by anything and everything, but when I drove off he had a plumb ornery fighting look in them deep-set eyes of his, and blame me if I didn't someway feel sorry for him,--he's that warped up, like an old water-soaked sycamore plank that gits laid out in the sun."

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"I don't know anything about all this hell-talk, but I see I can't kill you--you're such a poor, miserable cuss.

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I didn't guess what for, but the first thing I knew the other boy was scratching, and kicking, and hollering, and like to have wriggled away, so the cuss that was with me ran up to help.

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Now hear it once more, you that need to hear it--and damn all such poor pussyism as sniffles and whines and rejects it!

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I will venture to say that, if Jesus Christ was now to pass through the most pious countries in Christendom, with a train of women such as used to follow Him, fondling about Him, combing His hair, anointing Him with precious ointments, washing His feet with tears, and wiping them with the hair of their heads,--that, unmarried or even married, He would be mobbed, tarred and feathered, and ridden, not on an ass, but on a rail.

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"He certainly's got more spunk in him than I gave him credit for!

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Think of that girl going to a low cuss of a Gentile when Brigham wants her.

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"And maybe this cuss has got friends," suggested Glines.

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