Vulgar words in The Danger Mark (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 7
damn x 17
make love x 3
            

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"Damn him," repeated Scott, a little frightened at his own words and attitude; "I've had enough of this baby business; I'm eighteen and I want two things: some friends to go about with freely, and some money to do what other boys do.

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"I'm an ass to do it, but I want to tell you."

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I suppose that's the reason you find it amusing.... Not that I think there's any real harm in you----" "Thanks," laughed Dysart; "it only needed that remark to damn me utterly.

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"In other words," she said disdainfully, "you are beginning to make love to me again."

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Can anybody with any rudiment of intellect feel otherwise in the social environment you and I inhabit--where distinction and inherited position count for absolutely nothing unless propped up by wealth--where any ass is tolerated whose fortune and lineage pass inspection--where there is no place for intelligence and talent, even when combined with breeding and lineage, unless you are properly ballasted with money enough to forget that you have any?"

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I wanted you to see what I do, say what you think, like it or damn it--only do something about it!

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"Damn this sort of thing," he muttered, looking piteously after Geraldine.

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Women don't love unless made love to.

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He's just a plain ass--an average ass--ownerless, and, like all asses, convinced that he can take care of himself.

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But Muriel says 'damn!' and Rosalie says 'the devil!' and when anything goes wrong and I say, 'Oh, fluff!'

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She clasped her hands behind her, confronting him with that gaily audacious allure which he knew so well: "Does a man really care whether or not he is in love with a woman before he makes love to her?"

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_Now_, do you understand, damn you!"

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For God's sake, survey us damn fools, herded here in our pinchbeck mummery--forcing the sanctuary of these decent green woods, polluting them with smoke and noise and dirty little intrigues!

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He said laughingly, not looking at her: "Oh, I wasn't ass enough to be deceived, Sylvia.

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If I can't be anything more, I'm not worth a damn.

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She said: "I'm sorry; only it made me think of 'Sermons in stones, Books in the running brooks,' and the indignant gentleman who said: 'What damn nonsense!

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He hesitated, then frankly awkward: "I say, Mallett, I'm a sort of an ass about these things.

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Guy, I don't care a damn about anything except his health and happiness.

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He said, very red in the face, but with a voice well modulated and even: "I think I've made a good deal of an ass of myself.

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Dysart gave an ugly laugh and turned short on his heel: "The whole damn lot of you make me sick," he said.

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Quest refused with an oath, and, leaning forward and hammering the padded chair-arm with his unhealthy looking fist, he broke out into a violent arraignment of Dysart: "Damn him!" he yelled, "I've written him, I've asked for an explanation, I've 'm-manded t' know why his name's coupled with my sister's----" Duane leaned over, slammed the door, and turned short on Quest: "Shut up!" he said sharply.

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I'll say what I damn please----" "Haven't you any decency at all----" "I've enough to fix Dysart good and plenty, and I'll do it!

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"Damn him!" said the old man fiercely, "no wonder he ain't a-feedin'!

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Only they're too damn rough with a man.

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A cab stood there; he entered it, fell heavily into a corner of the seat, bade the driver, "Keep going, damn you!" and sat swaying, muttering, brooding on the wrongs that the world had done him.

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And they knew it, damn them!

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