Vulgar words in Hidden Water (Page 1)

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about the size of it x 1
bastard x 1
cocky x 1
cuss x 1
damn x 2
            
god damn x 1
make love x 1
shoot up x 1
snag x 1
            

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God damn 'em!" he added passionately, and it sounded like a prayer.

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"Well, that's about the size of it," admitted Hardy.

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"Why, damn it, man, I'm an inch too short!"

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It was the old shame of the sheepman, the shame which comes to the social outcast, and burns upon the cheek of the dishonored bastard, but which is seared deepest into the heart of the friendless herder, the Ishmaelite of the cow-country, whose hand is against every man and every man's against him.

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He sat on his heels by the canvas, with the boss sheepman on the other side, and the Mexicans who had been so cocky took their plates and retired like Apaches to the edge of the brush, where they would not obtrude upon their betters.

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Its waters flowed thin and impotent over the rapids, lying in clear pools against the base of the black cliffs, and the current that had uprooted trees like feathers was turned aside by a snag.

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But I'm a law-abidin' cuss myself.

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I'll bet you forty dollars to the price of a drink that old Bill Johnson has been shootin' up their camps.

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"I can keep a tally book and order up the grub from Bender; but, durn the luck, when it comes to makin' love on paper I'd rather wrastle a bear.

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"Well--damn--me," he said, "for a pin-head!

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