Vulgar words in The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Page 1)
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And Ferguson--your cocky Ferguson--stood and listened, until she had talked herself out, and then went away.
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My second cousin once removed, damn her!"
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Not even"--he lifted a hand against interruption--"if you knew you had the brain you think Ferguson had.
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"So's a trout; but it's got a damn poor show against a shark," the chief had added with a shrug.
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"An' ain't I doin' double work, with that damn Mouse forever sneakin' up to the engine-room?"
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"Damn your squint eyes!" he yelled.
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"You chicken-livered wharf-rat, ain't you got no spunk to answer wid?"
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As the fagged stokers bent before the boilers, the hot water, dripping from the breeching, washed scalding channels through the coal-dust down their bare backs.
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The muscles of his thick neck moved jerkily--"to ask you, Mouse, before--to forgit the damn mean things--I done to you, Mouse."
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Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.
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There they applaud, and clap the hands, when my mother was a queen, or a beggar girl, in the theatre, and make love and kill and fight.
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You're a blockhead, just like your father!'
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'Damn the old hag!' he said.
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George said, 'Damn her soul!
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You're the only one who has the right to check this damn foolishness.
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"I'd like--I'd like--Oh, damn 'em!"
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"And my child is a--a--bastard.