Vulgar words in The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Page 1)
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She was reminded of what Strang had so often said, referring to their lonely quest--that actual existence was like a forlorn shipwreck of some other life, a mere raft upon which, like grave buffoons, the ragged survivors went on handing one another watersoaked bread of faith, glassless binoculars of belief, oblivious of what radiant coasts or awful headlands might lie beyond the enveloping mists.
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At the sound of a footfall or the soft creak of a plank I felt that I might lose all control and leap up and brain him with the heavy bottle in my grasp.
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"Gee, that's damn tough," said Joel, who had grown from darn to damn.
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I've told you now, Mary, what I swore I'd never tell.... _Damn you_!"
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So thus they made love--she bending down toward him, he clutching with toes and hands at the wall, her whispers making him dizzier than his perilous posture, her tears falling upon his lips through a space so little, yet greater than the distance between two stars.
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He retorted: "If you could have seen what an ass he made of me that time, you would not at this moment be holding his hand.
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Evans's eyes were open; he watched the other, and at last he said huskily: "I say, you know, I'm a bit knocked up."
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Now I say, damn the people anywhere in the whole country that won't pay their debts from pioneer to pioneer; that lets us fight the wilderness barehanded and die fighting; that won't risk----" A gray film dropped down over the world, a leaden shroud that was not the coming of twilight.
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(_See 1918._) **Boob Spelled Backward.
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#Level, Maurice.# (_French._) *Bastard.
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Pink Knickers and the Desperate Ship.