Vulgar words in The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Page 1)
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"'Damn you!'
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Let's wind up this farce and get to anchor somewhere; I'm fagged out.'
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'Damn-fool superstition,' he muttered to me time and again.
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'It was Rounds, damn him, that killed me.'
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"Oh, damn his yellow soul, I'll marry her!"
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She knew how Stires felt on the subject--a damn, dirty ship-chandler no self-respecting officer deals with--" "None of that!"
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"I damn ye!" he cried, raising his arms wildly.
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"Yes, by the Lord, I damn ye up and down.
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--"Neither do I damn thee: go, and sin no more."
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"'Oh, devil take me for a blundering ass!"
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The police of M---- all knew that Peter, a half-wit, or "Silly Peter" as he was called, was perfectly harmless; even though at times he would litter the streets and market-place with bread crumbs.
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That's for Rockefeller and the boobs.
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Don't be a damned boob, Dole.
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You watch me all the same, all the same, you damn--" The reason I didn't up-anchor and get out that night was that, when I came aboard I discovered not far from my berth the unobtrusive loom of that Dutch gunboat, arrived for a "look-in" at last.
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A Canuck queen,' say he.
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'And since when has the Canuck queens been usin' stove polish for talcum powder?'
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Got to run right off and show it to the whole damn length and breadth of the South Seas.
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"Don't be an ass, old fellow.
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"Making love with Johnny Deutra."
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(_H._) Boob's Progress.