Vulgar words in Anderson Crow, Detective (Page 1)

This book at a glance

beat (one's) brains out x 2
cuss x 4
jackass x 1
poppycock x 1
scrap x 1
            
snag x 1
spunk x 2
            

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Just set around the parlour stoves all winter holdin' hands, and on the front steps all summer----" "Like as not the gosh-derned cowards heard what I said and got up spunk enough to tackle matrimony," interrupted the venerable town marshal.

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No scrappin' on the public thoroughfares o' Tinkletown.

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To Mr. Alf Reesling he confided: "I tell you what, Alf, when this here Kaiser comes up ag'inst me he strikes a snag.

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She said I was a finicky old jackass."

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Then while he was looking for something to beat her brains out with, she got up and run into the pantry and locked the door.

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Lum Gillespie declared on the third day after Mrs. Smith's car first came to his garage for live storage, that "that feller Francose" knew more English cuss-words than all the Irishmen in the world.

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Spryest cuss I ever laid eyes on.

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Show her you got a little spunk."

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They've got to be fed, you know,--and it's all damned poppycock discussing the matter any longer."

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"You'd cuss, too," explained the blasphemer to the lady, "if a clumsy elephant, stepped on the only good foot you've got."

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He was a droll sort of a cuss, Jake was.

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And if he hadn't married her, he wouldn't have been placed in a position where he had to beat her brains out.

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