Vulgar words in The Harbor (Page 1)
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"Shut up, you damn fool!" he said fiercely.
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From "that boy who will go far" I became "you damn young freshman."
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I was told to make love to a horse's hind leg, I was made to perch on a gatepost and read the tenderest passages of "Romeo and Juliet," replacing Romeo's name by my own, and Juliet's by that of stout Mrs. Doogan, who scrubbed floors in a dormitory close by.
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A little damn prig!
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"But damn it all, why not have a look?
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"Damn fool," I heard someone mutter.
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But we don't care a damn.
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Kid," he ended intensely, "you can take it from me there are going to be big doings soon in this little old world, big doings and great big ideas, as big as what caused the Civil War and a damn sight more scientific.
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Damn the fellow, how much was there in it?
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He was talking to a million people, damn him, and doubtless this was just the kind of writing that would appeal to them.
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"But damn it, Bill, these people aren't alive.
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Their taxes were doubled because of the war, and----" "Oh, damn your war taxes, and damn your plows and your corn and hay!
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Even before it began it had made the South so bitter that just for the sake of attacking the North the Solid South in congress had joined the damn fool Farmer West and attacked our mail subventions.
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Everyone wanted to see something done--and done damn quick--about this, that or the other.
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For, after all, this little Russian cuss had risked his life for fifteen years and expected to lose it shortly.
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You want to look up the fire law about lighted cigarettes and a lantern----" "Oh, damn your fire law," I growled.
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"The damn sea hog!" he muttered.
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"Damn."
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What a paltry looking cuss I was--small, tough and wiry, hair sandy, eyes of no color at all, snub nose and a jaw shut tight as in pain.
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In those Spring days I was fagged and dull, my imagination would not work.
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"If you know a damn thing about this business come back here the minute you've 'phoned!
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It's damn well written."
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It's damn fine writing, I'll say it again, but that's not reason enough for this.
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"Damn little muts," I thought.
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"You comfortable people," he said, "are so damn comfortable you're blind.
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"Not only these damn letters to write--I've got to make up our paper besides--it goes to the printer to-morrow.
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He looked more fagged than the day before.
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Heart failure is damn common here, and if your man gives out it means you double up for the rest of the voyage.
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"I've been hunting for hours for that damn book.
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God damn it all--I can't find anything to-night!"
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"He's so damn old," Joe muttered.
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There is a gong upon the wall, and when it clangs you heave in coal, and if when it clangs faster you don't keep quite up to its pace, a white light flashes out of the wall, and that light is the Chief Engineer's way of saying, 'God damn you, keep up those fires down there!
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Bitter things were said against "coons," not only "scabs" but "all of 'em, God damn 'em!"
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"Some black bastard hurt at last!"
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"Who are all you damn fools?
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"God damn 'em, slaughter 'em, slaughter 'em!"
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An officer knocked up his gun.
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"And I can't say I _care_ a damn.
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"Damn fools not to see it!
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"It's too damn mild.