Vulgar words in Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative (Page 1)

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ass x 4
bastard x 1
boob x 1
canuck x 3
cuss x 1
            
damn x 23
god damn x 2
half-wit x 1
jackass x 4
pimp x 1
            

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"Mind you, Jim,--God damn you,--don't you stay down that hole too long."

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"Damn Jim, he's up to his old tricks again, I'll bet," swore Josh, shifting his face-deforming quid of tobacco from one protuberant cheek to the other, meditatively....

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You're no damn good!" she cried passionately.

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"It seems that the man that took Phoebe off was nothing but a pimp!"

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And all her mouth and chin and pretty white neck were burned brown with the carbolic acid she had drunk.. a whole damn bottle of it.

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Don't be such a damn fool!"

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He just a damn-fool Yankee boy I picked up in New York."

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"Anybody that's worth a damn will take a chance in this world.

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But when I began telling him with convulsive laughter, of the revenge I had taken on the mate ... and also how I had thrown all the keys overboard, Hoppner, instead of joining in with my laughter, struck at me, not at all playfully, "What kind of damn jackass have I joined up with, anyhow," he exclaimed.

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I couldn't discover what it was about, myself ... only that one man was a fool ... another, a silly ass ... another, a bloody liar!

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We hurried down the ladder to gobble up what was left of the cornbeef and potatoes.... Nippers looked up at me, with a hunk of beef sticking from his mouth, which he poked in with the butt-end of his knife.... "Say, didn't the old man cuss wonderful, and him lookin' like such a lady!"

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es I was sayin', I'm a bum myself, an' proud of it ... and I think these here damn bulls (policemen ... who were sitting nearby, waiting for us to finish) have mighty little to 'tend to, roundin' up you boys, now the orange-pickin' season's over with, an' puttin' you away like this ... why, if any one of them was half as decent as one o' you bums--" "Sh!

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"You'd better beat it on out of the South as quick as you can," an old tramp had warned me, "they're hell on a bum down here, and harder yet on a Yankee ... no, they haven't forgot _that_ yet--not by a damn sight!"

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--s a damn lie ... you 'en Jimmy hev bin a-gamblin' all night," interjected the sheriff, in angry disgust.

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"You romantic jack-ass," yelled Bud, his nerves on edge.

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She would bring them up to us and hand them in through the chuck-hole, which the village blacksmith had repaired and once more reinforced with extra bars, "so them bastards won't even think of sawing out again," as the jailer had expressed it.

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"Damn you, Jacklin," shouted the sheriff, "I believe you're a little soft on the gal ... come here ... you swing the whip an' I'll hold her arms."

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"I'm glad we're getting out, but there's more damn fools in the world than I thought," he remarked, with a sour smile of gratification.

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He cut in with the final pronouncement: "Damn fool, you'll git pneumony."

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And made the old man use a strong horse-medicine on him ... which he himself brought up from the stables.... "The boy is such an ass ..." Spalton told me laughingly, "that it's a veterinarian he needs, not a doctor."

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"The damn fool's ruined a whole keg."

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"Why, then, I'm heartily sorry ... and it was rough of me ... and will you tell the professor for me that I sincerely apologise for having hurt his feelings ... tell him I have so many jackasses attending my lectures all over the country, who rise and say foolish and insincere things, just to stand in well with the communities they live in--that sometimes it angers me, their hypocrisy--and then I blaze forth pretty strong and lay them flat!"

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retailed to me the practical jokes they had played on each other since I had been gone from among them ... on big Sam, the chocolate-coloured shoemaker who had his shop next door ... and an obscene one on a half-wit named Elmer, who was one of Frank's helpers ... that, though it was pretty raw, made me choke and gasp with merriment ... and they told me how, one night, they had wired the iron roof in the back, so that about ten cats that were mewling and quarrelling there, received a severe electric shock ... how funny and surprised they'd acted.

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"Yes; we printed his first article, you know ... just as we gave you your start.... "Baxter is the most remarkable combination of genius and jackass I have ever run into.

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We had taken on, as one of our firemen, a Canuck, who, from the first, boasted that he was a "bad man"....

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The Canuck, at the very first meal, terrorised the crew that sat down with him.

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The Canuck was finishing his meal in silence.

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"Don't be an ass, Jack!"

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I'm so sorry for Penton ... for both of them.... "Penton _is_ such a jackass, Johnnie," she gulped, "and God knows, as I do, he's such an honest, good man ... helping poor people all over the country ... really fighting the fight of the down-trodden and the oppressed."

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"Damn it, there's Darrie waked up."

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I'm only wild about the way she encourages Mubby to talk over his troubles with her--and tell her about him and me, asking _her_ advice ... as if _she_ could give any advice worth while-- "They began to talk and talk about me just as if I were a laboratory specimen.... "Damn this laboratory marriage!

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damn this laboratory love!

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"Only this," his voice replied, as if rehearsing a set speech, "yesterday afternoon I sent a telegram to my lawyer to institute proceedings for a divorce, and I mentioned you as co-respondent...." "Damn you to hell ...

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"Damn you, Penton ... needn't tell _me_ about the news leaking out ... you've done it yourself ... now I want you to promise me only one thing, that you'll hold the reporters off for a couple of hours, till we have a good start."

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"Johnnie, don't be such a damn fool!

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"As long as I pretend not to be living with you I'm considered a sly dog that seduced his friend's wife and got away with it ... 'served him right, the husband, for being such a boob!'

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"Damn it, Jerome, you don't understand, you don't get what we radicals are driving at...." "I'll take a chance with my job and quash this interview--that's how much I like you, Johnnie."

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Damn all marriage!

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Damn all free love!

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God damn to hell all women!

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