Vulgar words in Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters (Page 1)
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It didn't strike those boneheads that no sane holdup would come walking along the track a few hours after a robbery."
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"By damn, yes!"
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And so Casey Dunne dreamed as he rode--dreamed as he had not dreamed waking since the days when, a little boy, he had lain on warm sands beside a blue inland sea on summer's afternoons and watched the patched sails of the stone hookers, and the wheeling, gray lake gulls, and heard the water hiss and ripple to the long, white beaches.
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"It's that cuss that held us up!" snarled McHale, and swore viciously.
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Serve the cuss right."
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"_Halo_ cuss word--no bad word--no.
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And I'll bet," he added to Keeler, "the infernal old blockhead doesn't understand a word I've said."
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"That's the cuss that blowed the flume," said McHale.
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"But some men make love very well, you know," she smiled.
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I might have been if he had tried to make love to me, but he never did.
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Wade exclaimed, "you don't mean----" "You--you _bonehead_!" she cried, exasperated, and hustled him outside.
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They may be making love on the sly."
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"If I could only git that cuss up there against the sky line----" But the top of the cliff was fringed with bushes.
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The little boy that lay on a lake shore years ago and watched the old stone hookers wallowing through the long swells doesn't seem to be Casey Dunne.