Vulgar words in The River Prophet (Page 1)

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cocky x 1
damn x 1
scrap x 1
snag x 2
white trash x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 27   ~   ~   ~

Once, in the fervour of the hope that he was called upon to raise corn for humanity, he raised five hundred bushels, only to give it all away to poor white trash who had not raised enough for themselves.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 471   ~   ~   ~

Boldly she pulled into an eddy just before sunset, and had made fast to a snag and a live root when the little boat came dropping down in the edge of the current hardly forty feet distant, with the man leaning on his sweeps, watching her every motion, especially fastening his gaze upon her trim figure.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 994   ~   ~   ~

"No-o; reckon I pick my own people to scrap."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,801   ~   ~   ~

For the first time in my life I'm free--and--and I don't--I don't care a damn!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,916   ~   ~   ~

In the restaurant he talked with a cocky little bald-headed man all spruced up and dandyish.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,652   ~   ~   ~

What dangers might engulf him was not plain, not the waves, for his skiff bobbed and rocked over them; not river pirates bent on plunder, for they could not see him; perhaps a snag in the shallows of a crossing; perhaps the leap of a sawyer, a great tree trunk with branches fast in the mud and the roots bounding up and down in the current; perhaps a collision with some other craft.

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