Vulgar words in The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Page 1)

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cocky x 1
cuss x 1
pimp x 1
scrap x 1
sleazy x 2
            
slut x 1
            

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The clothing outfit consisted of a pair of light-blue pantaloons, similar colored overcoat with a cape to it, dark blue jacket, heavy shoes and woolen socks, an ugly, abominable cocky little cap patterned after the then French army style, gray woolen shirt, and other ordinary under-clothing.

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It was brief, occupying only about four pages of the small, sleazy note paper that we bought in those days of the sutlers.

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"Why, Sal Leadbetter!" she exclaimed, "you dirty slut!

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He had served in the Florida and the Mexican wars, and he also had been in much scrapping with hostile Indians in the vicinity of the Pacific Coast.

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The only garment I had on was a white, sleazy sort of cotton bed-gown, which they garbed us all in when we were taken to the hospital; and this chap's eyes, as he stared at me, looked as if they would pop out of his head.

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It was taking part in an active campaign, in which fighting was expected, and the idea was intolerable that the other boys should be at the front, marching and fighting, while I was in the rear, playing the part of a "hospital pimp."

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He hunted up a cozy corner on the leeward side, set me down carefully, and then said, "Now, you d--d little cuss, I guess you won't fall down here."

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