Vulgar words in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 (Page 1)

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ass x 1
cocky x 1
damn x 5
poppycock x 2
            

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What an ass he was to be so darned enthusiastic with an Englishman!

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Damn the cold!"

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"Damn the snow!" he said.

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Damn you, Marshey, if your old farm was worth taking I'd have you out in this snow, you old scamp!"

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Now I say, damn the people anywhere in the whole country that won't pay their debts from pioneer to pioneer; that lets us fight the wilderness barehanded and die fighting; that won't risk--" A grey film dropped down over the world, a leaden shroud that was not the coming of twilight.

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"There was a sort of cocky unconcern about the creature that gave his miserable state a kind of beggarly distinction.

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But I said to myself I'll keep out an eye; maybe it's on the level--any damn thing can happen.'

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"Love-affair poppycock!" said Leon Kantor, lifting his mothers face and kissing her on eyes about ready to tear.

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"That's so--so what you call 'tender,' for my best sweetheart that I--oh, love affair--poppycock!"

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