Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 (Page 1)

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cuss x 4
damn x 1
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Then he walked up to George, who was lying on the bench, apparently as soundly asleep as any of them, and, saying to himself, "The damn nigger is asleep,--I'll just take a little rest myself,"--he suited the action to the word.

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In France, where woman is harnessed with an ass to the plough which her husband drives,--where she digs, and wields the pick-axe,--she becomes prematurely hideous; but in America, where woman reigns as queen in every household, she may surely be a good and thoughtful housekeeper, she may have physical strength exercised in lighter domestic toils, not only without injuring her beauty, but with manifest advantage to it.

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I didn't ax him to come here plaguing me about the cuss o' Ham.

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"I thought 'twas wicked to cuss, but Massa Minister says Ham was cussed in the Bible.

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"O, what a cuss that Ham was!" groaned Tom.

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"Don't know nothin' 'bout that ole cuss," replied Chloe.

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Soon after, they "knocked him down" for a story; and as it requires more brains to tell a story than to sing a song, the poor butt made an ass of himself.

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"While you were all tippling in the dining-room, he was better employed,--making love by moonlight.

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