Vulgar words in Children of the Mist (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
cuss x 5
damn x 23
god damn x 2
make love x 3
            
screw x 1
whore x 1
            

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Auld heads be the best stepping-stones young folks can have, understood right; awnly the likes of you mostly chooses to splash through life on your awn damn silly roads."

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I knawed that tree three year ago to give a hogshead an' a half as near as damn it.

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An' Clem's made it clear 't was all my damn silly silence to blame.

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"You're a silly old ass," burst out Grimbal roughly.

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I knaw the value of gude rich soil tu well; an' a man as grudges the rames[3] of hisself to the airth that's kept un threescore years an' ten's a carmudgeonly cuss, surely."

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"I allus sez, in my clenching way, that I doan't care a farden damn what happens to my bones, if my everlasting future be well thought on by passon.

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An' when Miller lifts up his voice to cuss me, tell un quiet that I knawed what must come of it, and be gone straight to Exeter Gaol to save un all further trouble.

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But that imp o' Satan--that damn Blanchard bwoy!

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And you can tell your whore of a daughter she's a widow, not a wife!"

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No man ever yet failed to make love from ignorance how to begin, but the extent and difficulties of his undertaking weighed very heavily on Martin Grimbal at this juncture.

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A man should knaw hisself anyways 'fore he has the damn fulishness to take a wife.

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That's why I boil awver now an' again--damn it!

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"Damn the auld slate!

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"God damn everything!" he burst out.

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Sweet scents floated downward upon the sad whisper that lives in every pine forest; then came suddenly a crisp rattle of little claws and a tiny barking, where two red squirrels made love, high aloft, amid the grey lichens and emerald haze of a great larch that gleamed like a green lamp through the night of the dark surrounding foliage.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,525   ~   ~   ~

D'you think I care a damn wan way or t'other?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,576   ~   ~   ~

An' he do nothin' but write rhymes, an' tear 'em up again, an' cuss his luck, wi'out tryin' to mend it.

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Grimbal had no notion that any mystery hung over that autumn time during which he made love to Phoebe and Will was absent from Chagford.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,126   ~   ~   ~

"Say the word, Mary, an' think o' me here as master, a-keeping all your damn relations off by word of command."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,157   ~   ~   ~

Cuss 'em!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,175   ~   ~   ~

I'll tell you what Lezzard is--just a damn evil disposition kep' in by skin an' bones--that's Lezzard.

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Me in church, keepin' order 'mong the damn boys generation arter generation, and him never inside the door since he buried his wife.

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Damn the Duchy, as steals moor an' common wheer it pleases an' then grudges a man his toil."

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"As to damning Duchy," he continued, "you might as well damn the sun or moon.

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She'm set on seein' you, an' if I go home-along without 'e, she'll awnly cuss."

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"Damn it, Phoebe, doan't you take me like that else you'll get the rough edge of my tongue.

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Damn the cross!

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"The airth be damn near drowned, an' the air's thick like a washin'-day everywheers, an' a terrible braave sight o' rain unshed in the elements yet."

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"A damn queer accident, if you ax me.

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God damn theer lying, poisonous tongues, the lot of 'em!

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"Damn his black mind!

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'T is in this world that a chap's got to pay for his sins most times, an' damn short credit, tu, so far as I can see.

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You're a fond old man; and if you'd wanted to screw me up to the pitch of taking the necessary trouble, you couldn't have gone a better way.

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"Damn my birthday--a wisht day for me 't was!

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Damn it all!

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In plain speech, 't is a damn dismal come-along-of-it, an' I've cried by night, auld though I am, to think o' the man's babes grawin' up wi' this round theer necks.

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