The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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'Twuz de fus' time dat I evah heah'd him cuss.

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Ye'd better let a woman go the whole figger when she gits started, just as ye'd better give an ugly cuss of a horse his head up hill an' down.

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"He's a mean old cuss, anyhow," said the young man, with a defiant laugh.

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"Cuss the luck!" he gasped hoarsely, and I let go of him, scarcely able to ejaculate in my intense surprise at that familiar voice.

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I don't give a tinker's cuss what you are.

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"An amusing cuss, Mark Twain," is all very well as a popular verdict, but what of Mr. Clemens the man and the hero, for he is both and in the front rank, too, with Sir Walter.

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"Proud little cuss," he told himself, as he strode on along the street.

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"Ben an' the Lark--that's what they call that little cuss bossin' the second gang--listen to him whistle an' you'll know why--know well what to do.

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He was a little cuss an' dressed to kill, with gloves on, an' all that.

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Unfairly WINSTON CHURCHILL Invades the Sunday sheets; Unfairly MRS. ASQUITH With serious scribes competes; But these are minor evils-- What makes me cuss and damn Are novels from the nursery And poems from the pram.

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An' I ain't a'goin' to pay no more 'tention to the chaplain's sermons, 'cause 'twuz that there chaplain as fust got me in this here mess, cuss him!"

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"Because I'll have to court the old fellow anyhow, cuss him!" was Broussard's inner belief.

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They would rather have a clergyman who golfed and knew "a cuss word" when he saw it, than a saint who couldn't wield a club and might faint at such words as golf elicits.

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These kept silent during the game and talked with their hands, but frequently when I tackled one hard and fell on him, I could hear him cuss under his breath."

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"Nobody'd buy Snatchet--he's only a poor, damn, shiverin' cuss."

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"Nope," replied the other; "but I wish we had that cuss of a Flukey to open up them doors, or else Eli was here.

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"Well, he be a mean cuss; but there be other cusses besides Lem, Mister."

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"Do ye mean, Flea, that ye'd rather come to the scow than go with the young, good-lookin' cuss?"

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He's a mean cuss--" "You see me now, don't you?"

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It's agin the law to cuss in Pittsburgh, even by telegraft."

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A drunken, unruly Cuss seeing that your father appeared quiet and peaceable thought it safe to play the bully at his expence so he commenced to insult and threaten Mr. Greely in a pretty rough manner.

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Seeing that your father was quiet and peaceable and did not wish to quarrel with the Cuss I took the Cuss in hand, and spoiled his beauty for him, and taught him a lesson to mind his own business.

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Did he set an' cry An' cuss the harricane sweepin' by?

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That had been done by some cowboys who were in town the day before, and the fellow they 'd done for was an ornery cuss of a half-breed Mexican, who was a whole lot better off dead than alive, anyway.

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So the poor cuss was in luck by the affair after all, for he got a mass said over him.

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THE STORY, OF A CHINEE KID "Little Ah Sid Was a Chinee Kid, A cute little cuss, you 'd declare, With eyes full of fun And a nose that begun Right up at the roots of his hair."

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There he was, down there at the bottom of the lake--an' I 'm a-tellin' you the Gospel truth, an' you may take me out an' drown me in that there very lake if I ain't--there was that ornery, stingy cuss down there takin' his time to empty the powder out o' my flask into his'n!

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Den I jes swore rite up, Miss--rite into dat Masr's face an' eyes--'I'm neber gwine to hab no more chilun,' an' he says to me, 'Matt, you got to do jes as I say,' an' I swear agin, an' he cuss and swear, an' then, I got sich a floggin'--Miss, but I didn't keer, an' I would never done as dat man sed, an' I 'spected to die, but a New Orleans trader cum dat way, an' I was sold, and Mas'r Sumner said, de las' thing, 'You'll get killed now, Matt.'

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I kin keep f'om downright swahin' all de time I 's on de go, But my hea't is full o' cuss-wo'ds w'en I's trampin' thoo de snow.

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Ef de chillun pestahs, An' de baby's bad, Ef yo' wife gits narvous, An' you're gettin' mad, Des you grab yo' boot-strops, Hol' yo' body down, Stop a-tinkin' cuss-w'rds, Chase away de frown, Knock de haid o' worry, Twell dey ain' none lef'; Tek a little trouble, Brothah, wid yo'se'f.

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He pulled the finger out of the man's mouth, and snapped the blood off it, looked at him, and said: 'There, you lantern-jawed cuss, you have made me cut my finger.'"

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He turned round, looked me coolly in the face, and said, 'Why, what a blundering old cuss you are!'"

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Gentlemen, if one of our New England ancestors were here to-night, expounding his views to us, I am very much afraid that you and I would be tempted to turn round and say: "Why, what a blundering old cuss you are!"

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If a fellow could quote classical "Mehercule," and Shakespearean cuss-words, he would not perhaps be so vulgar as to say "hell."

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"Oh, dear; don't cuss," Cried the Octopus, And he walked off on his ear.

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A man ain't considered worth a cuss in Indiany what hasn't got his brand on a hundred head.'

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"With that, the Indiany man went into a full explanation of the affair, and, gettin' warmed up as he went along, begun to cuss and swear like he'd been through a dozen campaigns himself.

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"Some bright day I'm goin' to git tired o' hearin' you cuss my proxy," Mr. Gibney bawled after him, "an' when that fatal time arrives I'll scatter a can o' Kill-Flea over you an' the shippin' world'll know you no more."

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The little cuss!

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Dat night de young Nigger was tellin' a old slave 'bout it, and de old man jus' laughed and said: 'When Marster pesters me dat way I jus' rise up and cuss him out.'

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Marster called to him again, and den dat fool Nigger cut loose and he evermore did cuss Marster out.

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When he tried to talk to dat old slave 'bout it de old man laughed and said: 'Shucks, I allus waits 'til I gits to de field to cuss Marster so he won't hear me.'

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Says Mr. Holmes: "If anybody comes to your house an' you don't want 'em dere, when dey leaves you take some salt an' throw it at 'em when dey gits out of hearin' you cuss at 'em an' dey won't never come back again."

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After she got so sick she couldn't get off the bed she would cuss 'em and yell to the top of her voice 'til they left.

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When they prayed for the Lord to have mercy, their marster would cuss the Lord and tell 'em they better not call his name again."

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When I think of--well, of the little cuss I was, and of you--why, I tell you, I cannot get too soon into harness.

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Just think of it, all you housekeepers--no gold plate or silverware to send to the vault, no bric-a-brac to pack, no furniture to cover, no bedding to put away, no rugs or furs or clothes to send to cold storage, no servants to wrangle with or discharge, no plumbers to swear over, no janitors to cuss at, no, not even any housecleaning to do before you depart--just move and nothing more.

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And while the lot of us sat and stood about perfectly motionless, not daring to say a word one way or the other, lest the wrathful old cuss squinting down the gun-barrel _would_ shoot, the policeman took his foot off the empty cause of the disturbance, and deliberately turning his back on Piegan's leveled six-shooter, walked calmly over to his waiting horse.

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"Well," I blurted out, as near angry as I ever got at MacRae in all the years I'd known him, "you're a high-headed cuss, confound you!

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I did think uh tryin' t' get off with their hosses, but I figured it wouldn't pay with that sharp-eared cuss on the watch.

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"Oh, cuss away, y' old varmint!" sang down Mr. Edwards cheerfully.

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"The louder you cuss, the better the hearin'; 'means ye have air to breathe an' nothin' broke internal... Eh?

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Cuss away, cuss away--proper quarter-deck you're givin' us!

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He picked up a stone, and flung it at the dog, exclaiming, "Get along home; there is limping enough here without you, you little lame cuss, coming limping after us!"

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Jake cuss Sam.

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Jake cuss Jackson.

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Jake _cuss_.

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Jake cuss Injun.

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She happens to forget an engagement, which was of no sort of importance, and this is how she apologises:-- "To think that every hour since you said you would come I have repeated to myself--Gosse at 5, Gosse at 5, and then after all to go meandering off and leaving you to cuss and swear on the doorstep, and you will never come again now, really.

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You make your personal check for the nine thousand, and give it to the old cuss who's in the county treasurer's office now, with the descriptions of the land, and get the tax receipts; he'll bring the check back to the bank; you give him credit on his pass-book with the other checks, and just hold your own check out in the drawer as cash.

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Quick the answer came from heaven; Muckintosh, the famous thinker, Muckintosh, the great and mighty, Felt a trembling, felt a quaking, Saw the earth about him open, Saw the iron from the mountains Form a quaint and queer machine, Saw the lead from out the lead mines Roll into small lettered forms, Saw the fibres from the flax-plant, Spread into great sheets of paper, Saw the ink galls from the green trees Crushed upon the leaden forms; Muckintosh, the famous thinker, Muckintosh, the great and mighty, Felt a trembling, felt a quaking, Saw the earth about him open, Saw the flame and sulphur smoking, Came the printer's little devil, Far from distant lands the printer, Man of unions, man of cuss-words, From the depths of sooty blackness; Came the towel of the printer; Many things that Muckintosh saw,-- Galleys, type, and leads and rules, Presses, press-men, quoins and spaces, Quads and caps and lower cases.

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This Lewis Robards, her first husband, was a quarrelsome 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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I can't write to Carrie because her folks open all her letters and they'd nag her into marrying that old knock-kneed, squint-eyed, fat-necked son-of-a-gun of an Andrew Langly, if they thought she was having anything to do with a worthless heathen cuss like me.

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The cuss-word slipped out.

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I've watched 'em come around too many times not to know how they can cuss a man cold one minute, and then make him plumb ashamed of mankind in general, with beggin' and pleadin'.

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"Well, I dunno who he is, but I'll say this much for him--he's an honest cuss!" ejaculated the fisherman.

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

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When he git mad, he walk fast, dis way and dat way, and when he stop, would say terrible cuss words.

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I does not cuss, nohow, kaise it sho am wicked and I is had de Holy Spirit in my soul, now gone sixty-five years, since I jined Padgett Creek Church.

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Marse Gregg, him 'low, always have more money and niggers than you could shake a stick at, more land than you could walk over in a day, and more cuss words than you could find in de dictionary.

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They glare at each other and begin to talk harsh and cuss each other.

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Old marster went to de field and cuss a nigger woman for de way she was workin', choppin' cotton.

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"I'll tell you one thing, stranger," Bud Lee was saying to him softly, as his hand tore open Donley's shirt, "you open your dirty mouth to cuss just once more in Miss Sanford's presence and I'll ruin the looks of your face for you.

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She's a low-down, deceitful jade, that's what she is, sired by a sheep-stealin', throat-cuttin', ornery, no-'count, worthless cuss!

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He shook his head, admitted to himself that the "ol' duck" was a keen ol' cuss, returned to his book, began stripping the paper from the first stick of gum, and knew no more of what went on about him.

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"You'll need a cuss-word now; any other finish will sound flat."

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Nail him, Steve; for the love of Mike, nail Andy Sprague quick before the crooked little cuss finds out jus' how bad you need the pasture an' sticks you accordin'.

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They would come right up to him at his table and shove a _pièce d'identité_ under his nose, with a tremulous request for a visé; he would turn upon them and growl, "_Bas bossible; keine Zeit; laissez mois dranquille, nom de D----!_" He switched languages with wonderful facility, and his cuss words were equally effective in any language that he tried.

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I'm a generous cuss with the company's money when they give me full swing."

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And if I don't cuss this thing in a minit more I'll be about fitten to preach."

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And Laz broke in: "He don't cuss hisse'f, Jedge, but he knows good cussin' when he hears it."

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B. Sanderson--I didn't notice the name before--was my own nephew, the very young cuss whose picture kept me from marryin' the baby's mother!

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"John, I don't care a continental cuss how good he was, the baby was good enough for him--too good--I just said nothing--and watched the signals.

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I then carefully opened the key and had just begun to speak to the despatcher when one of the men suspected me and said to the leader, "Bill, watch that little cuss.

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Then the one with the lantern said, "Well, fellows, the little cuss is game.

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"No," I answered, "the wire hasn't gone down, but that cuss up in 'CH' who signs 'JL' has been pounding the eternal life out of me and I've just given him a piece of my mind."

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Now the chief operator in this place was a scaly sort of a cuss--in fact, it was said that he had done time in the past for some skullduggery--and when the horses went to the post, he stood by the switchboard and deliberately cut the pool room wire, so the report didn't go through.

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"I was born in St. Louis; mother died when I was a kid, and Dad was such a drunken worthless old cuss and beat me so much, that I brought up in a foundling asylum.

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He's got a season contract an' I ain't breakin' my word with the cuss.

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"But I'm some sorry for the cuss," he added.

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"Shy cuss," he said, grinning contemptuously.

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"I reckon I'm sorry, you damned little cuss," he said huskily as the youngster looked up into his face.

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The durn cuss likes me!"

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I thinks we'll never get there, 'n' I begins to cuss Peewee fur bringin' me.

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"I goes on the stage just because I starts to cuss a dog I owns one day," said Blister.

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"'You look like a smart little cuss,' he says.

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Then what's the use in quittin' it fer something I don't know, and don't care a cuss for anyway?"

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