Vulgar words in The Bells of San Juan (Page 1)

This book at a glance

cuss x 2
damn x 5
make love x 4
            

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Damn it, do you imagine a man counts 'em?"

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"A man's so damn close to heaven on these mountain tops... Who's that?"

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And then, more weakly still, in a voice which broke despite a manful effort to make it both steady and careless, "I never cuss like that unless I'm delerious, anyhow I never cuss when there's a lady..." "If you'll keep perfectly still," Virginia admonished him quickly, "I'll do all the talking that is necessary.

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"I just ask you, Virginia Page," she said at last, sinking back into the wide arms of her chair with a sigh, "if a man with murder and all kinds of sin on his soul could make love prettily?"

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He had greeted Virginia casually; she, observing him keenly, understood what Florrie had meant by a man's making love with his eyes.

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"Shoot, damn you, shoot!"

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He brings papers to tell who and what he is in Mexico City, whence he has departed because of too damn much fight down there; he wishes to put some money here in the _banco_, which he can take away again to buy a big ranch and many cattle and horses.

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"Damn it, man," cried Struve irritably.

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Jim Galloway was actually making love to her!

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And her heart gave him high praise that toward her he acted with all deference, that with things as they were, while he was man enough to hold her here, he was too much the gentleman to make love to her.

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