The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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There's times when I cuss it like you cuss the waters that hand you your life.

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But I don't reckon he cares a cuss anyway.

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I've seen them sweat, and cuss, and work like a beaver for a wage, and they've been as happy as a doped Chinaman.

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You'll work, and cuss, and sweat, and fight, just the same as you're ready to do now.

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"And we cuss the poor darn neche for a savage."

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I don't care a cuss for the law of this thing.

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One on 'em is a big, long, rangy cuss, like a yearlin' colt, by gosh, and ther other's the dead spit of the school teacher at ther Four Corners, back er hum."

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"Dod bam it, did ye ever hear the beat o' that!" shouted a pious fellow who was inventing cuss words that would pass the charge of profanity.

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Misc Somers say she don't think it was Gineral Washin'ton, caze he cuss so.

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I never liked the cuss."

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Why I luved that cuss like--like--" he hesitated for a simile--"like my own son," he added, with the passing of one of his brood, and forthwith whacked the youngster for overturning the bait can.

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Turning to the 'judge,' he added, in a more respectful tone: 'I doan't know th' fust thing 'bout lor, Major Gaston, an' this man's nigh as mean a cuss as th' Lord ever made; but ef ye'll 'cept me, I'll go in fur him!'

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Fred Thurman had been one; a "bull-headed cuss" who had the temerity to fight back when the Sawtooth calmly laid claim to the first water rights to Granite Creek, having bought it, they said, with the placer claim of an old miner who had prospected along the headwaters of Granite at the base of Bear Top.

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"He's all right--just a good-natured kinda cuss that wouldn't harm anybody."

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You're a nice friendly cuss, you are.

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He ran around the country a good deal, however, tuning it up and trying it out, and as he was a sociable cuss, some of us always went with him.

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"He's a lean, blighted cuss," Murphy had explained; "what God intended for an engineer, but Nature stepped in and flambasted his constitootion, and so he took to preaching--that not demanding no bodily strength.

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"Do you know," he said at length--"and I hope you'll excuse me--I think you're the most comical cuss that ever happened."

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Look at him now--he sees the joke, the brazen little cuss, he's actually laughing in our faces."

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Now any one with an open mind would have been blamed glad when that poor little cuss cut loose.

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"There are times when I think you're a comicaller little cuss than your brother!"

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"Billy'll cuss us."

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"Wal, ef yo' aint jus' th' cutes' little cuss I ever seed paddlin' aroun' out here in the ice like a beaver."

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Why, that little chunky cuss has an eye, and he can sting the ball--he's almost as good as Reddy.

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I heard a squeal from the bushes, and here comes a funny little cuss.

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Bill's _goin'_ to lick him, but cuss me if I see _how_.

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He was playing 'em right down to cases, yet the way he talked, he seemed like the most liberal cuss that ever threw good money away.

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The poor cuss changed face for the first time.

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I don't think I ever noticed what a handsome big cuss Ag was till seein' him walk beside that girl.

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One thing made the cow-punch ready for gun practice right off, Mr. Troy was a slippery cuss, and he had rather ki-boshed Jack Hunter's girl.

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However, Grim is an aggravating cuss when so disposed, and he kept me waiting until the creaking of the departing cart-wheels and the blunt bad language of the man who drove the mules could no longer be heard through the open window.

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As by his side lopes Bill, the Guide, A wicked-looking cuss-- "Chee-chee!" the little birds exclaim, "Ain't Teddy stren-oo-uss!"

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How the Rebel bullets whizzed round us When a cuss in his death-grip turned!

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go home, lilly baby, to your mudder, and git sugar plum--I no want kill puttee lilly boy--' "'Kum on!--don't be afeerd!--don't go for to run away!--I'll ketch you and lick you--' "'You leetul raskul--I'll kuss you by all our gods--I'll cut out your sassy tung--I'll break your blackguard jaw--I'll rip you up and give um to the dogs and crows--' "'Don't cuss so, ole Golly!

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At Natchez she's got to discharge an all-fired lot o' casting an' boilers, things she can't put ashore 'ithout han'spikes, block-an'-taickle an' all han's a-cuss'n' to oncet.

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He's a funny little cuss; like you, a trifle puny.

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"Little cuss," beamed Mr. McBride, "goin' off, locking up her old grandfather and meetin' young chaps.

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"Cuss 'im!

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I'd be a damned mean cuss, to do such a turn by any woman, wouldn't I?

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"You miserable cuss," snarled Chillis, in his wrath, "be d----d to you, then!

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As he was a-swearin' an' a-tearin' with all his might, an' a-callin' on God to cuss him ef he didn't do so an' so, all of a suddent, just as his mouth opened with a oath, he was struck speechless, an' never has spoke a word till this day!--leastways, not that I ever heard ov."

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His luck an' his cuss don't hurt him none for me.

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"Waal, you heerd Tom Davis' blab this evenin'; an' you know that Bob's got the idee into his intelleck that the cuss of a sart'in man as he onct wronged is a-stickin' to him yit, an' never will let loose till he passes in his checks?"

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[Illustration] WILL O' THE WISP Ef de Wul o' de Wust would cuss an' swear An' take some shape, an' rip an' tear, It wouldn't sen' col' chills down a nigger's spine Like de changeable expression of a mystery shine.

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He don't care a cuss anyway.

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But--it don't signify a cuss anyways.

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Feller with swell folks way down east, an' who guesses the on'y sort o' farmin' worth a cuss is done in Ju Penrose's saloon.

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I don't care a cuss on my own account.

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But when you've got just about ten thousand dollars that's telling you you're all sorts of a fool, and you're yearning for 'em to believe you're a twin brother to Pierpont Morgan, why, you don't feel your hide's made of gossamer, and don't care a cuss if folks start right in to hammer tacks into it for shoe leather."

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He's a great amusin' little cuss when you see him on his patch of land.

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I'd hate to get ahead of the little cuss by settin' out my case in private.

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I don't care a cuss who gets it.

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Now, I don't just care a cuss Peters' grazin' two hundred, or five hundred head of stock on my pastures.

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What a cuss of a lay-out wher' you got to set around watching a darnation gang o' toughs whittlin' away your work till they got you beat to a mush.

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Cuss ye!' exclaimed Jones, savagely; 'let me take my own way.'

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"Youns notice how the younguns cuss this day.

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In the olden days the women didn't cuss out loud but they did 'wooden cussin.'

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Some cuss on the inside, I reckon, who doesn't know enough to keep his blame' mouth shut, has gone and leaked."

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Blackwell, he's a cuss, with a snoot like a hawg.

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I think 't if a feller he'ps another feller when he's in trouble, and don't cuss, and don't do no mean things, nur noth'n' he ain' no business to do, and don't spell the Saviour's name with a little g, he ain't runnin' no resks-he's about as saift as if he b'longed to a church."

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"It's none o' my funeral, and personally I don't give a cuss if they _never_ find him, but there are just s-teen reasons why the Old Man wants to see that young man Rawdon forthwith, and as many for believing he's skipped."

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We can cuss the men all we want to, my dear, and some of us unfortunately have a nasty experience with one now and then.

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DEAR GIRL: I have caught my breath, so to speak, but I doubt if ever a more forlorn cuss listened to the interminable clicking of car wheels.

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"Gid's a shifty old cuss, and I ain't taking any chances," he explained aloud to Dud.

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On the occasion of some ruling by the Whig Speaker, Mr. George Bliss, a worthy and respectable old gentleman, Butler called out in a loud voice: "I should like to knife that old cuss."

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In short, he was spoken of by his neighbors as "a hard-working cuss, and tollably well fixed."

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"That cuss thinks he's ol' hell this morning.

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But he's jest the kind of cuss to get holt of all the purty girls."

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And arter the carriage got out of hearing, sir, he stood in that there door there and cussed plump tell he couldn't cuss.

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we're all born under a cuss!" persisted Grandpa, with irate satisfaction.

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Dey duz like dey wanter stan' up an' cuss dersef' case dey wuzent borned men."

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Look sharp, cuss you, else we'll pull off the ruff of the old humstead."

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Cuss all such trash, says I."

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He always does lie, cuss him."

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You Joe Teachman, what are you lazin there about, cuss you?

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"Now, cuss you, don't come foolin' about me," replied that worthy, aiming a blow at me, which, had it taken place, might well have felled Goliah; but which, as I sprang aside, wasting its energies on the impassive air, had well nigh floored the striker.

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cuss you, quit there, leatherin that brute!

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Cuss them, if I doos n't sarve them out for it, my name's not Thomas Draw!"

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"Cuss you, and your news too," responded Tom, "you're sich a thunderin' liar, there's no knowin' when you do speak truth.

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"In course not," answered Forester; and at the same instant Tom struck in likewise-- "It's a lie, afore you tell it; it's a lie, cuss you, and you knows it.

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"Why, Timothy's gittin' out the wagon, and we'll drive up the old road round the ridge, and so strike in by Minthorne's, and take them ridges down, and so across the hill--there's some big stubbles there, and nice thick brush holes along the fence sides, and the boys does tell us there be one or two big bevies--but, cuss them, they will lie!--and over back of Gin'ral Bertolf's barns, and so acrost the road, and round the upper eend of the big pond, and down the long swamp into Hell hole, and Tim can meet us with the wagon at five o'clock, under Bill Wisner's white oak--does that suit you?"

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"It'll make the old man cuss."

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'By the roarin' Jasus,' I yells, 'you lay offen that monkey business, you consarned whiskery cuss, or I'll fill you so full o' holes yore own mammy won't know you from a hunk o' cheese.

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I like the old cuss.

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"Kayak'll take her in on that one... By thunder!" he broke out as the boat rushed toward the shore in a smother of foam, and landed well up on the beach, "if that old cuss could rope a steer as well as he can land a boat in a surf, I wonder that they ever let him out of Texas!"

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[1] As if he feared Harlan might think him sentimental, Kayak Bill finished his recital with: "Yas, son, that old cuss partner o' mine was always recitin' them poetry sayin's o' his.

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to think that old cuss can _sleep_ at a time like this!...

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Yes, I picked him up at Albuquerque, a half-starved, skinny little cuss that was cryin' and beggin' me to get him out of there."

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I wisht Collie was here--the little cuss."

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"'The leetle cuss!' says Toledo.

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"Brand says he isn't worth saving, but--I kind of like the cuss.

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"He's thankin' me--the little cuss!

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Did I cuss much?

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A Cuss from Chicago came to see her every two weeks.

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Just now he walked clean over to Pitman's to tell that crusty old cuss that thar was a cow inside his lot fence, an' when Pitman come down hoppin' mad with his shot-gun full o' pease yore father-in--(excuse me)--Mr. Wrinkle p'inted to Pitman's own cow an' said, 'I wasn't lyin' to you, Sam; thar she is.'

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"You know Sheriff Tobe Webb is a dry-talkin' cuss, anyway, an' I had to laff when he got up an' begun his harangue, fer all the world like a feller in front of a side-show tryin' to drum up a crowd to see a passel o' freaks on the inside.

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I'm some ungrateful cuss.

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Now, Jim," he whispered, "watch your man!--recollect--you aim at that tall fellow on your own side,--I'll take the little, skinny cuss--the one who is just turning towards us now.

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"The little, skinny cuss," as Pike had called him, clasping his hands to his breast, had fallen head foremost among the rocks up which he was climbing.

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