Vulgar words in The Night of the Long Knives (Page 1)

This book at a glance

boob x 1
bugger x 19
cuss x 2
damn x 6
loony bin x 1
            
make love x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 4   ~   ~   ~

I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 27   ~   ~   ~

None of the three other buggers and me had had too clear an idea of where Nowhere had been--hence, in part, the name--but I knew in a general way that I was somewhere in the Deathlands between Porter County and Ouachita Parish, probably much nearer the former.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 28   ~   ~   ~

* * * * * It's a real mixed-up America we've got these days, you know, with just the faintest trickle of a sense of identity left, like a guy in the paddedest cell in the most locked up ward in the whole loony bin.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 72   ~   ~   ~

Some buggers claim they just feel it, though I've never known any of the latter too eager to navigate in unfamiliar country at night--which you'd think they'd be willing to do if they could feel heat blind.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 175   ~   ~   ~

* * * * * Now I am a bugger who believes in carrying _one perfect knife_--otherwise, I know for a fact, you'll go knife-happy and end up by weighing yourself down with dozens, literally.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 272   ~   ~   ~

For a catchy starter, I could tell her about Nowhere, how these five other buggers and me found ourselves independently skulking along after this scavenging expedition from Porter, how we naturally joined forces in that situation, how we set a pitfall for their alky-powered jeep and wrecked it and them, how when our haul turned out to be unexpectedly big the four of us left from the kill chummied up and padded down together and amused each other for a while and played games, you might say.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 274   ~   ~   ~

And, of course, how when the loot gave out and the fun wore off, we had our murder party and I survived along with, I think, a bugger named Jerry--at any rate, he was gone when the blood stopped spurting, and I'd had no stomach for tracking him, though I probably should have.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 352   ~   ~   ~

Yes, kind!--damn him!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 368   ~   ~   ~

* * * * * We were almost close enough now and he was steeling himself to shoot and I remember wondering for a split second what his damn gun did to you, and then me and the girl had started the alternation routine.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 392   ~   ~   ~

* * * * * The girl, who was clearly a most cool-headed cuss, snatched for his gun where he'd dropped it, to make sure she got it ahead of me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 412   ~   ~   ~

And there's one bad thing about a bugger so knife-happy he lugs them around by the carload--he's generally good at tossing them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 423   ~   ~   ~

He just assumed equality with us right from the start and he talked in an absolutely matter-of-fact way, neither praising nor criticizing one bit--too damn matter-of-fact and open, for that matter, to suit my taste, but then I have heard other buggers say that some old men are apt to get talkative, though I had never worked with or run into one myself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 464   ~   ~   ~

"Well, the fact is, Ray, I carry them to impress buggers dumber than you and the lady here.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 505   ~   ~   ~

I've heard other buggers tell the yarn of how they met (and invariably rubbed out) the actual guy who pushed the button or buttons that set the fusion missiles blasting toward their targets, but I felt a sudden curiosity as to what Pop's version of the yarn would be.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 647   ~   ~   ~

I didn't like the idea of those two buggers poised above me while my hands were helpless on the sill.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 736   ~   ~   ~

Not openly mean and death-on-Deathlanders like Walla Walla or Porter, but buggers who swing too close to Atla-Hi have a way of never turning up again.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 737   ~   ~   ~

You never expect to see again two out of three buggers who pass in the night, but for three out of three to keep disappearing is against statistics.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 746   ~   ~   ~

Stubborn single-minded cuss!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 877   ~   ~   ~

By the time I'd got my strength back I'd started to be a new bugger.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 918   ~   ~   ~

"Buggers who pad together tell everything."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,041   ~   ~   ~

I guess any bugger that could kid religion the way Pop could got a little silver star in her books.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,297   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you, Pop!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,302   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the both of you!" she finished.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,328   ~   ~   ~

"I hate to think of what happened to the last bugger made the mistake of forgiving me."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,342   ~   ~   ~

"The buggers!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,376   ~   ~   ~

You could easily imagine such folk, unimpeded by the boobs, creating a wonder world in a couple of generations.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,548   ~   ~   ~

Of all things, Pop was saying, "Yep, I imagine Ray must be good to make love to, murderers almost always are, they got the fire.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,602   ~   ~   ~

"Pop," I said--almost whined, to be truthful, "why'd the bugger ever have to land here in the first place?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,708   ~   ~   ~

Ray, I don't think you're going to get your baby A-blast, and what's more I'm afraid you've wasted something that's damn valuable.

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