Vulgar words in The Dust Flower (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
bonehead x 2
cuss x 1
damn x 2
fag x 1
            
hussy x 3
make love x 1
spunk x 2
            

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"What's the good o' goin' on like that just because a silly ass 'as married beneath 'im?"

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If a hussy had been put to reign over them, reigned over by a hussy none of them would be.

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As a parting shot he declared on leaving the kitchen, "The trouble with you girls is that you ain't got no class spunk, and that's why, in sperrit, you'll never be nothink but menials."

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To a virtuous woman, starched and stiffened in her virtue, steeped in it, dyed in it, permeated by it through and through, nothing so stirs the dramatic, so quickens the imagination, so calls the spirit to the purple emotional heights, as contact with the sister she knows to be a hussy.

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"They suffers--nobody knows what they suffers better nor me--just because they ain't got the spunk to do anything _but_ suffer.

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To take the "cuss" off his refinement, as he put it to Barbara, he scattered modern American office bits among his luscious brown surfaces, adorned with wreaths and lictors' sheaves in gold, though to himself the wrong note was offensive.

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She spoke with a decision and an authority which made love at first sight a fancy to blush at.

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Boneheads that wouldn't know a white man from a crane."

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"Damn you!

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Now you'd hardly believe the work I've had to show that lot of boneheads that because a guy's a detective in one line, he ain't a detective in every line.

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He passed the great milestones, Fourteenth Street, Twenty-third Street, Forty-second Street, Fifty-ninth Street, and not till crossing the last did he begin to feel fagged.

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She was damn well here the day before yesterday."

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