Vulgar words in A Daughter of the Middle Border (Page 1)

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We were familiar figures by this time, and the farmers when they saw me leaping a pasture fence or climbing a hill, would smile (I assume that they smiled), and say, there goes that literary cuss, or words to that general effect.

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One morning as we met at breakfast he replied to my question with a groan and a mild cuss word: "Worse, thank you!

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He wrote me that the men of the lumber camp spoke of him as a "queer old cuss," but that disturbed him not at all.

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