Vulgar words in The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest (Page 1)

This book at a glance

canuck x 1
cuss x 2
damn x 18
make love x 1
            

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But, damn it, kid, you've broke me!

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And that day the wind took his hat and rolled it through the mud, and he said: 'Oh, pshaw!' instead of damn it!

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"Of all expressions coined to damn a man with faint praise, there is only one more effective: 'He means well.'"

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"Y'u damn near made me mad--fer a minute," and he turned to the table.

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Ag'in' spring you'll know a little somethin' about logs, or you'll be so damn sick of the woods you'll run every time you hear a log chain rattle; an' either way, you'll learn who's boss of this here camp."

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He's always willin' to admit he's as shmar-rt as he is, or a damn soight shmar-rter, which don't fool no wan, fer 'tis phwat they expect.

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He's a independent old cuss--work if he damn good an' feels like it, an' if he don't he won't.

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"None o' yer damn business!

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Jest you lay a finger on me, you damn timber-thievin' boot-legger, an' I'll bust you one over the head with the peaked end of a flatiron!

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He said you were a good cook, and I can certainly bear him out in that; but he said that you would only work if you damn good and felt like it, and if you didn't you wouldn't."

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"He's roight agin, an' Oi'll be tellin' ye now Oi damn good an' don't feel loike wor-rkin' f'r Moncrossen, th' dirthy pirate, takin' a man's pay wid wan hand an' shtealin' his timber wid th' other.

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"Him that c'd lay down th' naygers in windrows all day, an' dhrink, an' play car-rds, an' make love all noight--an' at 'em agin in th' marnin'!

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I was too sleepy to give a cuss--they got mine, too."

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"Damn Fallon!" he muttered, and then the pictured lips moved and in his ears was the soft, sweet sound of a voice.

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"Damn you!

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Ye damn' shcoundril, ain't ye dhrounded at all, at all?

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A Canuck swamper named Leduc complained to me that the boss slipped up on him and knocked him insensible with a club.

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"Damn Appleton!

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And damn the crew!

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It's anyways ten days to the break-up; an' I ain't worryin' a damn if I do happen to foul Fallon's drive."

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Damn you!

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