The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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She drew her pistol, cocked it, and pointed it at Pierce, who was trembling in every leg, and said: "Look-a-here, you young cuss.

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Green's first impulse was to pull the bell rope, and order the cuss to get out of the ice house, but he saw the bear coming through the air towards him, and there was not four hours to lose, so he drew the revolver, took aim at the bear's left eye, and pulled.

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"I don't give a cuss if they're married and have sixteen children!" shouted the exasperated Crow, his badge fairly dancing.

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Supposin' there is some poor cuss out there huntin' a place to sleep.

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Harry Squires is a purty sly cuss.

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The Government shet off the pension jest as soon as she got married ag'in, and then that blamed cuss took in washin' fer her.

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"He came crawlin' up to my place about six o'clock in the mornin'," explained Alf, "an' I took the poor cuss in.

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"So it may be; but cuss me if you ain't a fool if you attempt that!"

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That little cuss is shore a mighty good railroad man.

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They always threatens that way--them sort always does, and none ever the worse--not but she would if she could, mind ye, but there it is; she can't do nothing but bite her nails and cuss us--not she--ha, ha, ha!'

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"And Nella-Rose, the little no-count; did she repay Jed, the poor cuss?"

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Yo' can steal what's our'n,--an' with that she took the bantam and fo' I could say a cuss, she wrung that chicken's neck right fo' Nella-Rose's eyes!"

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Pete was right sober for him and spruced up owing to facts I am now coming to and when Pete's sober there ain't a more sensible cuss than what he is nor a gentlemaner.

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By all this you will judge what a comical little cuss Betty is, but all the same I am quite serious in urging you to come home before I grow desperate.

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But they're out thar in the woods a-waitin', Henry an' Tom Ross an' that ornery cuss, Jim Hart."

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"Jest my luck," said Shif'less Sol, "to be left on a desert island with an ornery cuss like Jim Hart."

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Then both stopped to hear Paul begin the story of Troy for the second time, but when he came to the death of Hector he would have to stop to let Shif'less Sol utter what he called a "few cuss words."

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I am three hundred ahead of this cuss yet, and--" "You'd better quit where you are!" said the other, decisively.

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"The cuss under my left-hand aim."

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"Better let ther capt'in say what we shall do wi' yon cuss o' creashun!" suggested one who was apparently a leading spirit; "it's _his_ funeral, ain't it?"

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"It's thet scarlet chap, Fearless Frank!" he announced, hopping about like a pig on a hot griddle "w'at I war tellin' ye about; the same cuss w'at desarted Charity Joe's train, ter look fer sum critter w'at war screechin' fer help.

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My cuss upon Lord Melbun, and On Jonny Russ-all-so, That forc'd me from my native land Across the vaves to go-o-oh.

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Tommy about to charge, with his head down, now walked away so quietly that Shovel, who could not help liking the funny little cuss, felt a twinge of remorse, and nearly followed him with a magnanimous offer: to treat him as if he were still respectable.

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Warn't I in larst year, and the cuss as runs the show, he says to me, 'Allers welcome,' he says.

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I demands to see the cuss what runs--" "Jest keeping on me out 'cos I ain't done nothin'.

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That lady as is my one, she's called her ladyship, and she don't care a cuss for boys as has repented," which of course was a libel, her ladyship being celebrated wherever paragraphs penetrate for having knitted a pair of stockings for the deserving poor.

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Thinks I, when I sot it, I'll tell the leetle cuss whar it wuz; then--I must hev forgot it.

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"Ill-tempered cuss!" said Nick.

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"You will have ample opportunity in the future," Nick assured him genially, "though, as I think I told you long ago, I'm the most well-meaning little cuss that ever walked the earth.

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Kind of a cuss'd 'skeeter hole, ain't it?'

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And in the last campaign He stumped old Morgan County, through the sunshine and the rain, And helt the banner up'ards from a-trailin' in the dust, And cut loose on monopolies and cuss'd and cuss'd and cuss'd!

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"Ole Mowley's in there, and she'll cuss you."

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1785 7 Cunningham, Edward Ditto 7 July, 1784 7 Cullen, James Bryen Ditto 6 April, 1785 7 Cullyhorn, John Exeter 22 July, 1782 7 Cudlip, Jacob, alias Norris Bodmin 25 July, 1785 7 Cuss, John, alias Hanaboy New Sarum 11 March, 1786 7 Cuckow, William Davis, Aaron Bristol 29 March, 1785 7 Day, Richard Reading 24 July, 1786 7 Davies, Edward Stafford 27 July, 1785 7 Day, Samuel Glocester 23 March, 1785 14 Davis, Samuel Ditto 13 July, 1785 7 Davis, William Davis, James London 8 Decem.

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I longed to hear him cuss a cosy swear; it would have braced us both.

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He appreciates a good job; he's a sort o' literary cuss himself."

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"You're sure a hospitable cuss," he retorted.

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In discussing the matter with me, one of our Generals said, "I really don't see that it matters a tuppenny cuss why she's fighting, so long as she helps us to lick the Hun and does it quickly."

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"Well," responded Jim, "I don't know nothin' about lawyers, but I'd rather be a natural born cuss nor a hired one."

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"Cuss away, y'ould witch!" said old Tom, with a grin through his pipe-stem.

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"David, my master, drank all he could get, poured it down, and when drunk, would cuss, and tear, and rip, and beat.

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First thing in the morning and last thing at night, you would hear him cussing--he would cuss in bed.

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This made master and mistress 'cuss' all hands at a great rate, and master beat all hands except the one that told.

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'Oh master, I will pray for you, I would cry, then he would 'cuss' harder than ever.'

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That fire was plenty fast enough for the bear, and the old cuss came out without waiting to be choked.

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The little cuss was cute and spry enough to keep out of his reach, though, and he made such a nuisance of himself, without doing any serious damage of course, that the bear got disgusted with the whole performance and hiked out through the brush.

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He's a persistent, wicked old cuss, and would just as soon sit down at the foot of a tree and starve a man out as hunt sheep.

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"I reckon the old bull has made that cuss lose his appetite," chuckled Jeff.

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And the same yellow-skins that howl because he doesn't do that would turn around and cuss him for seventeen kinds of a fool if he did, and ruined himself by doing it.

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Cuss a tack, and grin and bear an amputation!

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"An' t' think," he said at last, like one still wrapped in a great blanket of surprise, "t' think she didn't swear wan cuss th' whole time!

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Go to your grave with my 'ate and my cuss!'

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I beg your pardon,' he continued, as he met a curious look in Harold's eyes, 'I'm a blunderin' cuss, I be.

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Here the squire paused, and looked round to see what impression he was making on his audience, and the momentary silence was taken advantage of by Gladding to observe: "That Pond's a mean cuss."

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"Why the old cuss is a crying," answered Haxall, "or, perhaps, it's the whisky leaking out he took for his morning bitters."

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I guess it's time I took A look inside of me To see-- But, gee, I cuss I'm envious of what the other fellow's got, I loaf a lot, And foolish pleasures often buy-- That is the kind of sham I am.

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It also was a Jew, Who drove a Putney bus-- For flesh of swine however fine He did not care a cuss.

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"IF I LETS THE BLIGHTERS GO THE CORPORAL'LL CUSS ME INTO 'EAPS.

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"Don't get insolent, you young cuss.

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"Carn't wait, ma'am--time's hup"--and just at this moment a two-horse coach is heard stealing up the street, upon which the coachman calls to the horse-keepers to "stand clear with their cloths, and take care no one pays them twice over," gives a whistling hiss to his leaders, the double thong to his wheelers, and starts off at a trot, muttering something about, "cuss'd pair-'oss coach,--convict-looking passengers," observing confidentially to Mr. Jorrocks, as he turned the angle of the street, "that he would rather be hung off a long stage, than die a natural death on a short one," while the guard drowns the voices of the lady who has left her reticule, and of the gentleman who has got no change for his sovereign, in a hearty puff of: Rule Britannia,--Britannia rule the waves.

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Oh, I wish I was in Great Coram Street again!--I'm sure I can't live here--I wonder if I could get a return chaise--waiter--garsoon--cuss!

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A good sleep did more for Mr. Jorrocks than the doctor, and when the "médecin" called in the morning, and repeated the injunction "encore l'eau chaud," he bellowed out, "Cuss your _l'eau chaud_, my stomach ain't a reserwoir!

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Oh, cuss Mrs. J----; I knows nothing about her--been reading the Riot Act, and giving her red rag a holiday all the morning--wish to God I'd never see'd her--took her for better and worser, it's werry true; but she's a d----d deal worser than I took her for.

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"Real mean of that darned Baptist pointing you out Bunker's Hill," said the sea-captain from Maine; "just like the ill-mannered republican cuss!"

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We hurried down the ladder to gobble up what was left of the cornbeef and potatoes.... Nippers looked up at me, with a hunk of beef sticking from his mouth, which he poked in with the butt-end of his knife.... "Say, didn't the old man cuss wonderful, and him lookin' like such a lady!"

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The people cuss him, but he may determine who is going to win."

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"Come, wake up here, Phil," roared the soldier who was awake; "the fellow here says he must step out; cuss these Yankees; no better edication than to be gettin' up on nateral necessities at this time o'night.

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"Then they'd cuss it out and let it pass, and the dear old pin-head public would eat it up."

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And then, more weakly still, in a voice which broke despite a manful effort to make it both steady and careless, "I never cuss like that unless I'm delerious, anyhow I never cuss when there's a lady..." "If you'll keep perfectly still," Virginia admonished him quickly, "I'll do all the talking that is necessary.

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ab rupt' dis cuss' a cross' a gree' an nul' de duct' a dopt' a sleep' con struct' in duct' a loft' es teem' in struct' re but' a non' de cree' in trust' re sult' be long' de gree' at tire' in vite' com port' dis close' en tice' o blige' re port' dis pose' en tire' per spire' con sole' re store' in cline' sub lime' re pose' en throne' in cite' sur vive' con voke' ex plode' Lesson 62.

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"The little cuss!" cried Al, delighted.

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I give in tho, that he was a brave cuss; anybody who stood up and shot "bull" like he did for two solid hours, must have been brave.

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But by the Lord Harry, he's an inquisitive cuss.

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What did the grizzly old cuss do, however, but commence darncin and larfin in the most joyous manner?

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Who cares a cuss for Rights of Man, Checked by that bugbear Duty?"

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The peg-leg cuss swore a blue streak an' flung the knife at him.

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He dodged an' rushed in an' grabbed holt o' the club an' fetched the cuss a whack in the paunch with his bare fist, an' ol' Red Snout went down like a steer under the ax.

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I wish I'd 'a' killed the cuss, but as 'twere, we had consid'able trouble on our hands.

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"What an ignorant cuss you be!"

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They's a cuss on that tub that I helped put a coat o' tar an' feathers on in the Ohio kentry.

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He is what you would call 'a mean cuss.'

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"He were a mean cuss.

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'Twere a cold night an' I held him ag'in' me to keep the leetle cuss warm.'

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I dim' up an' grabbed my rifle an' thar were 'nother cuss out on the logs not more'n ten rod erway.

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And then such awful swearing!--for there's one of them that cusses Enough to shock the cads that hang on opposition 'busses; For he cusses every member that's agin him at the poll, As I wouldn't cuss a donkey, tho' it hasn't got a soul; And he cusses all their families, Jack, Harry, Bob or Jim, To the babby in the cradle, if they don't agree with him.

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He's a mean little cuss, but I am not mean.

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Aaron shifted his quid, and said with emphasis, "Want me to hitch up and bring that little red-haired cuss back?"

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"Cuss the War!" said Nicky-Nan wearily.

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And them that be careless of a lover's wishes before marriage won't care a cuss for 'em after.

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He was strong and agile seemingly, and he began to gibber and cuss and chatter like an ape the moment he catched sight of her.

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Every four or five feet somebody would run into you an cuss you.

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I wish you could have heard the Major cuss.

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"I don't know what a cow-cuss is."

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Come mornin' I took a look at things, and there was half my hay not worth a cuss for horse or ass, and thirty feet of fence fit for nowt but firewood.

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"You young cuss," I addressed him savagely.

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A man was popularly known as an affected cuss when he could handle anything more erudite than a nasal past participle or two in his own language, and any one who wanted to qualify as a humorist had to be able to mispronounce any word of over three syllables.

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Brother Kimball is a gay and festive cuss, of some seventy summers, or some'er's there about.

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So that's what she sent this poor cuss the money for, was it?

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