The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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I don't mind its huskin' my voice, for there is no one to talk to, but cuss it, it has softened my bones.

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Cuss 'em!

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Cuss 'em, let any o' these Britishers give me slack, and I'll give 'em cranberry for their goose, I know.

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Lord, I'll shack right over their heads, as they do over a colonist; only when they do, they never say warny wunst, cuss 'em, they arn't civil enough for that.

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"'See 'em, cuss 'em, I don't want to see 'em, I tell you.

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"I shall be off to the highlands this fall; but, cuss em, they hante got no woods there; nothin' but heather, and thats only high enough to tear your clothes.

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cuss the cost!' sais you.

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Cuss them sarvants!

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Oh, cuss 'em, I have no patience with them.

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If they don't, it's their own fault, and cuss 'em they ought to be kicked, for if they ain't too lazy, there is no mistake in 'em, that's a fact.

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Why, cuss 'em, half a dozen of these gents own the country for miles round, so they have to keep some company at the house, and the rest is neighbours.

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Cuss them fellers that spoke, they are wuss than assembly men, hang me if they aint; and _they_ aint fit to tend a bear trap, for they'd be sure to catch themselves, if they did, in their own pit-fall.

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Cuss 'em, they won't visit a new man, or new plantation.

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Cuss 'em, the state would be a nation sight better sarved, if one o' these old rooks was sent out to try trover for a goose, and larceny for an old hat, to Nova Scotia, and you was sent for to take the ribbons o' the state coach here; hang me if it wouldn't.

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Cuss that word Bunkum!

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They have travelled by stumblin', and have measured every thing by the length of their knee, as they fell on the ground, as a milliner measures lace, by the bendin' down of the forefinger--cuss 'em!

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Cuss, these English, they can't live out of mobs.

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They ain't men, they hante the feelin's or pride o' men in 'em; they ain't what they used to be, the nasty, dirty, mean-spirited, sneakin' skunks, for if they had a heart as big as a pea--and that ain't any great size, nother--cuss 'em, when any feller pinted a finger at her to hurt her, or even frighten her, they'd string him right up on the spot, to the lamp post.

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Now, I'll send for Old Clay, to come in Cunard's steamer, and cuss 'em they ought to bring over the old hoss and his fixins, free, for it was me first started that line.

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Why, cuss 'em, says they, 'any fool knows that.'

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"Cuss 'em," said he, "I'll attract more attention afore I've done yet, when Old Clay comes, and then I'll tell 'em who I am--Sam Slick, from Slickville, Onion County, State of Connecticut, United States of America.

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Whips wear out, and so do spurs, but a good sneezer of a cuss hain't no wear out to it; it's always the same.'

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Once upon a time the Captain had been on Old Pepper's staff, so he could cuss and blind in the most approved style.

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At every slap a big round juicy cuss word would escape from his lips followed by: "'Good, Fine, Marvelous, Pretty Work, Direct Hits, All!

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"Burm" to Tommy is a cuss word, because he has to "go over the top" at night to construct it.

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"Cuss the letter!" said Uncle Chirgwin, getting red in the face.

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"Cuss it, I says, for gwaine an' turnin' up just this day!

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But we was nigh enough then; and just as the Ingin was reaching down from his pony for the kid, Al Thorpe--he was a powerful fine shot--draw'd up his gun and took the red cuss off his critter without the paint-bedaubed devil know'n' what struck him.

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He missed the old brute, but hit his pony just behind its rider's leg, which started the animal into a sort of a stampede; his ugly master could not control him, and thus the immediate peril from the persistent cuss was delayed.

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"Ex-cuse _me_, Bart," he drawled, "but no cuss words don't go."

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The old cuss knows it, too, which is a pity!

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So he wanted a piece of one of them tomfoolery kind for the little cuss to speak the last day of school.

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He's not only a talented cuss, but his genius is always fresh and original."

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He just told us to take care of its remains, patted the old cuss on the head a little and walked off.

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Years ago there used to be a pompous cuss in southern Wisconsin, who was a self-made man.

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He said, "I allus thought this here Jesus Christ was a cuss-word; but these folks say he was some religious guy!"

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When he put her down she was afraid she was going to cry, so she began to laugh and to say they mustn't lose that 7.30 to London or the "rag" would be rolling up without her and the "stage damager" would be using "cuss words."

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cuss"; every woman in a barrow had her head-gear in confusion, and she was singing in a drunken wail.

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When he put her down she was afraid she was going to cry, so she began to laugh and to say they mustn't lose that 7.30 to London or the "rag" would be rolling up without her and the "stage damager" would be using "cuss words."

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cuss"; every woman in a barrow had her head-gear in confusion, and she was singing in a drunken wail.

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"My dear fellow," said he, "so long as you regard me as an honest cuss, nothing matters in the world."

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I went to bed with the conviction that he was as honest a cuss as I had ever met.

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[15] VI I was fullied, and then got three stretch for the job,[16] And my trip--cuss the day as I seen her-- [17] She sold off my home to some pals in her mob, [18] For a couple of foont and ten deener.

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They made fun of him till he got mad and jumped up and begun to cuss the crowd, and said he could lame any thief in the lot.

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That man was Kent, and he stayed because, according to his outraged companions, he was an ornery cuss, and his bump of patriotism was a hollow in his skull.

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Course I have to cuss a little sometimes.

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"He's a damned arrogant cuss."

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De skipper he cuss and swear awful.

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Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near saying a cuss-word-but you see I'm on an awful strain, in this palaver, on account of having to cramp down and draw everything so mild.

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Old Squire Hogadorn could carry around more mixed licker, and cuss better than most any man I ever see.

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Now do you know, that poor cuss warn't gone only sixteen minutes, and yet that Incorporated Company of Mean Men DOCKED HIM FOR THE LOST TIME!"

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"I'm the toughest cuss in Coyote county, and no darned greasers from Buller's can close up this town when I'm in it.

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He ha' larning, you see, can read and wroite foine, and ha' got a smooth tongue, and knows how to talk to gals, so some thought she would take him; oi knew well enough she wouldn't do nowt of the koind, for oi ha' heard her say he were a mischievous chap, and a cuss to Varley.

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It'd make a saint cuss to try to reason with 'em, and it's no good.

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I had the satisfaction of kicking that little cuss through the door ahead of me, though I knew it was myself I ought to have kicked.

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Of course that comes partly from fellows like that ornery little cuss we saw to-night, thinkin' they're a good deal because somebody else done something, and the somebody else happened to be their paw; and the women run after 'em, and they git low-down like he was, and so on."

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"Funny what he says to the little cuss that done the damage.

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That's all he did call him--'nothin' else at all--and the cuss had broke both his legs fer him and God-knows-what-all!"

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Good natured cuss; wonder if the Winship'll get him."

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I'll put it on Diablo myself; he's a touchy cuss, and I don't want him ruffled by careless handlin'."

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That Icarus Was a silly cuss-- Him an' his daddy, Daedalus.

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"Who is the cuss?

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He was a tough cuss."

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"Stuck-up cuss!" muttered young Bartlett to himself, as he shoved the signed books into his pocket and pushed his way through the underbrush again.

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I was afraid this scrimmage was going to do for him, but it didn't; and now I think that if somebody near by does a little cussing,--not that anyone can cuss like the boss,--he'll pull through.

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Then, with me to chip in a cuss word now and again when things got hot, he pulled through the day without ripping an oath.

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He was a tough cuss."

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"Stuck-up cuss!" muttered young Bartlett to himself, as he shoved the signed books into his pocket and pushed his way through the underbrush again.

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I was afraid this scrimmage was going to do for him, but it didn't; and now I think that if somebody near by does a little cussing,--not that anyone can cuss like the boss,--he'll pull through.

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Then, with me to chip in a cuss word now and again when things got hot, he pulled through the day without ripping an oath.

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She shore looks fighty, with 'er head down an' 'er eyes rollin' all ways t' oncet, ready fer the first darn cuss that makes a crooked move!

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Nemesis, the cuss, Waltzes up with nary a warnin' nor fuss.

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It is a common saying that in cases of trying illness or serious accident a patient would rather "hear the Doctor cuss, than listen to the parson pray."

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He especially engaged the interest of Tom McNeil, who said admiringly, as I, too, looked through the bars, "Ain't he a prompt little cuss?"

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"Well," said he at last, "if a little sawed-off cuss like you can wiggle under a hundred and eighty, I guess I can make it under sixty."

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THE HIPPOPOTAMUS "Oh, say, what is this fearful, wild, Incorrigible cuss?"

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"This _creature_ (don't say 'cuss,' my child; 'Tis slang)--this creature fierce is styled The Hippopotamus.

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This piece of ingenuity, Farmer informed me, was originally and exclusively an inspiration from the intellect which animated his, Farmer's, proper clod; nor was he greatly exhilarated when I narrated to him the tradition of the turnspit, whose memory, I regret to record, he spurned as that of a "mean cuss," destitute of that poetry which dwelleth in the pastoral associations of the dairy.

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"You jest hang onter ther cuss, will yer?

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You should just a-heard him cuss--" and one of Captain Bob's laughs rang through the room.

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"Well, he chucked 'em aboard with another cuss.

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you weak, unfeeling cuss, To get them in this shocking muss; How their pocket-books will rue it!

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Would you, JOSH, believe it true, At the moment, sir, when you Waited for that verdict blue, O'er the wires the message flew, Paid or franked by BOUTWELL through: "The gig is up; the cuss won't do.

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why, doggone my skin, when I wuzn't payin' money to the nigger, darned if I didn't set there watchin' the big, fat little cuss, like he wuz the only baby I ever seen.

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He had a cuss with him that was no better'n him; an' when it come to the time in the signin' that our names was put down, an' my wife was to be 'examined privately and apart'--ez is right an' lawful--ez to whether I'd made her sign or not, this other cuss steps with her into the hall, an' Dickert turns an' says to me, 'You git a thousand dollars each fer your land--you an' that woman,' he says.

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The other cuss he was down on the floor, sorter whimperin' an' workin' over this feller Dickert; an' he begun to yell that I'd killed 'im.

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Besides, being dead, he couldn't get any more offices for his constituents, so they found out they didn't care a cuss for him.

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But one mean cuss from Nigger Crick passed criticisms on 'er,-- Leastwise we overheerd him call her Pettibone's madonner, The which we did not take to be respectful to a lady, So we hung him in a quiet spot that wuz cool 'nd dry 'nd shady; Which same might not have been good law, but it _wuz_ the right manoeuvre To give the critics due respect for Pettibone's shef doover.

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Wall, that wuz quite another thing; we owned that ary cuss Who'd worked f'r Mr. Dana _must_ be good enough fer _us_!

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If any other cuss had played the tricks he dared ter play, The daisies would be bloomin' over his remains to-day; But somehow folks respected him and stood him to the last, Considerin' his superior connections in the past.

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And yet Ah'll bet you foh dollahs right out of mah pay, doze pesky cable-scrapers fo'ward 'll eat all dat meat and cuss me in good shape 'cause it ain't mo', and den, mah golly, dey'll sot up all night, Ah'll bet you, yass, sah, a-kicking dey heads off 'cause dey ain't fed f'om de cabin table.

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Ah ain't gwine tell no boy dat Mistah Hamlin, he say he am supercargo, an' dat he reckon he got orders f'om de owners; and Mistah Cap'n Falk, he say he am cap'n and he cuss su'thin' awful 'bout dem orders; and Mistah Roger Hamlin he say Mistah Cap'n Falk his clock am a hour wrong and no wonder Mistah Kipping am writing in de log-book dat de ship am whar she ain't; and Mistah Kipping he swear dre'ful pious and he say by golly he am writer of dat log-book and he reckon he know what's what ain't.

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"He's the most ungratefullest cuss I ever come up with.

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I don't cuss to speak of, and Ross can lay off on his till the boss comes back.

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"When this cuss Duncan fust come here," he says with a self-contained chuckle, "ev'rybody but me figgered he had stacks of money.

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You're a darned queer ungrateful cuss, and always were."

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"God," she said laboriously, "God is what made us, and a cuss word."

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"Mis' Purdy says if I don't say no cuss words, an' wash meself all over on Wednesdays and Sat'days, she's goin' to help me make myself a new dress!"

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Finally he said, "Ho, there, ain't your name Billy, the boy who used to get along with the Indians so well, cuss your soul?"

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