Vulgar words in Rope (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
buffoon x 1
cuss x 2
damn x 10
fag x 1
            
hussy x 2
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 35   ~   ~   ~

You go and make fools of yourselves over these short-skirted little hussies all powdered up like a box of marshmallows.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 241   ~   ~   ~

"Besides, you're awful young, both of you--and damn it, if you don't cash in on it now, next thing you know you'll be wonderin' where the time's gone, anyway.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 243   ~   ~   ~

Oh, I suppose I'm a kind of a sentimental cuss, but--must be I like the feelin' of it."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 265   ~   ~   ~

I can put it up to him in _writin'_ twice as good as Henry put it up to me by talkin', anyhow.... And I'll put an announcement in the _Herald_ that'll take the cuss off.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 539   ~   ~   ~

He'd do a damn sight better with it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,081   ~   ~   ~

And damn him, he had _looked_!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,085   ~   ~   ~

Conceited young ass!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,522   ~   ~   ~

"Why, _enforce_ the damn' law--just once.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,544   ~   ~   ~

And _one_ damn fool law'd be fixed so's the Police Department'd know how to handle it."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,831   ~   ~   ~

But there's other ways o' goin' at that damn League, and we're goin' to use _all_ of 'em.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,354   ~   ~   ~

Only tonight we're going out to a restaurant and eat ourselves logy, and you won't wash a damn dish.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,670   ~   ~   ~

_We_ thought it was for some forum, or something; and the damn place was shut down anyway; so we made a lease.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,677   ~   ~   ~

He signed up the whole damn Exhibitors' Association.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,712   ~   ~   ~

"If it wasn't for your damn League we'd _all_ be makin' money."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,792   ~   ~   ~

Henry's nerves were fagged, his muscles were twitching, the inside of his head felt curiously heavy and red-hot; the spring was calling him, but he didn't dare to listen.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,030   ~   ~   ~

She had made him a laughing-stock, a buffoon, a political joke.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,339   ~   ~   ~

"But I'm dashed if I'm blind.... Immodest little hussies.

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