Vulgar words in The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems (Page 1)

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buffoon x 1
cuss x 5
make love x 2
            

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I'd be a damned mean cuss, to do such a turn by any woman, wouldn't I?

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Evidently a vein of drollery in his nature had been better appreciated, and oftener exhibited to admiring audiences, than any of the finer qualities of thought or sentiment of which you instinctively knew him to be capable; and yet the face protested against it, too, by a gentle irony with a hint of self-scorn in it, as if its owner, in his own estimation, wrote himself a buffoon for his condescension.

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"You miserable cuss," snarled Chillis, in his wrath, "be d----d to you, then!

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As he was a-swearin' an' a-tearin' with all his might, an' a-callin' on God to cuss him ef he didn't do so an' so, all of a suddent, just as his mouth opened with a oath, he was struck speechless, an' never has spoke a word till this day!--leastways, not that I ever heard ov."

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His luck an' his cuss don't hurt him none for me.

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"Waal, you heerd Tom Davis' blab this evenin'; an' you know that Bob's got the idee into his intelleck that the cuss of a sart'in man as he onct wronged is a-stickin' to him yit, an' never will let loose till he passes in his checks?"

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I'll get him his _congé_ if I have to make love to her myself."

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But I never made love to Miss Jorgensen.

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