Vulgar words in The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul (Page 1)
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"If it ain't no great output to you, mister, to tell, do you happen to know who was the nub of that streak of wind and cuss-words that jest went past here?"
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If you and the rest ain't got any spunk, I have.
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"I've got goods that will break and I'll be cuss-fired if I'll break 'em for you nor the whole Smyrna Fire Department!" screamed Brackett; but when he tried to pull up his steed, the Cap'n, now wholly beside himself and intent only on unrestricted speed, banged a leather bucket down across the driver's hands.
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"Damn the expense!
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You've just escaped by luck, chance, and the skin of your teeth from a cuss that northin' is too low for him to lay his hand to.
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Even his name written on a piece of paper is a cuss to the man that lugs it!"
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And him and that woman, by Alcander Reeves's advice, are teaming that old cuss of a husband back and forth acrost that strip and markin' down a trespass offence every time he lugs an armful of wood."
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"They beat his brains out, gents," she screamed--"beat the brains out of the husband that had just come home to me after roamin' the wide world over.
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"Get a few elders to put up here," suggested Mr. Brackett, venomously, "and new management might take a little cuss off'm the reppytation of this tavern."
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He's got to be like rats and hossflies and other pests--you cuss 'em, but you reckon they've come to stay."
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"And even that old cuss wa'n't so skin-tight as you be.
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"I ain't any hand to make love to Portygee sailors," he cried; "I don't believe I could stand it to hold one on my knee more'n half an hour at a time.
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"Got to have money to square up bills and take the cuss off'm this town of welchin' on a straight proposition to outsiders who came down here all in good faith after prizes."