Vulgar words in True Tilda (Page 1)

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cuss x 1
damn x 1
snag x 1
            

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"Well now, if your friend Bill started to drive th' old _Success to Commerce_ like a train, first he'd be surprised an' disappointed to see her heavin' a two-foot wave ahead of her--maybe more, maybe less--along both banks; an' next it might annoy 'im a bit when these two waves fell together an' raised a weight o' water full on her bows, whereby she 'd travel like a slug, an' the 'arder he drove the more she wouldn' go; let be that she'd give 'im no time to cuss, even when I arsked 'im perlitely what it felt like to steer a monkey by the tail.

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But when there's blood, a damn up or down--what is it?

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In twenty minutes or so he had learnt to turn his paddle slantwise after the stroke, and to drag it so as to assist the steering; which was not always easy, for here and there a snag blocked the main channel, or a pebbly shallow where the eye had to search for the smooth V that signals the best water.

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