The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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He took a cup of coffee and some biscuits and some beans, And then began to talk and tell about foreign kings and queens,-- About the Spanish war and fighting on the seas With guns as big as steers and ramrods big as trees,-- And about old Paul Jones, a mean, fighting son of a gun, Who was the grittiest cuss that ever pulled a gun.

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But I never spilled a cuss word and I never spilled a squeal-- I was building reputation on that gol-darned wheel.

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I was an honest man When I first took to the road, I would not swear an oath, Nor would I tap a load; But now you ought to see my mules When I begin to cuss, They flop their ears and wiggle their tails And pull the load or bust.

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Kin cuss an' fight an' hold or free 'em, But I know them mavericks when I see 'em,-- Way down south in Dixie, Oh, boys, Ho.

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But Jack kept reasoning with him Till the poor cuss gave a yell And lowed he'd been mistaken In his views concerning hell.

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To the dickens with your city Where they herd the brainless brats, On a range so badly crowded There ain't room to cuss the cat.

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Well, the cuss stayed around for two or three weeks, till at last he was ready to go; And that cuss out yonder bein' too poor to move, he gimme,--the cuss had no dough.

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For that was what the other cuss called him,--just Freckles, no more or no less,-- His color,--couldn't describe it,--something like a paint shop in distress.

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Now, bear in mind before you start, That you'll eat jerked beef, not ham, And antelope steak, Oh cuss the stuff!

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Cuss 'em, I might have known."

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I don't grumble to you, but it's a reg'lar dog's life I lead; bully and cuss and swear at you, and then not even well fed."

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If the press-gang--cuss 'em!--ever does come along here we shall know who put 'em up to it, and if they take any of our chaps--mind yer they won't take all, and them behind'll know what to do.

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And when no one spoke he began to cuss 'em for a set o' idgits, and they all went below with the lanthorn, and come up again along o' you.

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"Frenchy was all talk about our being orficers and gentlemen if we rose again Captain Berriman, but as soon as we did rose he pumps hisself up, and it's all Captain Jarette, and every one else is nobody at all 'cept for him to cuss at."

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Why, dodrabbit ye, Leezur!" said this native Artichoke, "ye never done an ongodly thing in yer life--'cept, maybe," he added, "to cuss a little when ye was fishin' for the bucket."

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"'I know not why I love her, The fair an' beau'chus she; She bro't the cuss upon me, Und'neath the apple-tree: But she asked me for my jack knife, And halved 'er squar' with me, Sence all'as lovely woman Gives the biggest half to thee.'"

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It's a regular cuss.

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"Cuss them!"

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No, Lord, people own home don' never stop to cuss dem no time.

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Pa Cudjo say, he pray en he cuss en when he look up, he see a boat makin up de river wid two men in it en me lyin dere 'tween dem.

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Pa Cudjo say, when he see me, he been so happy, he pray en he cuss.

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All the time cuss!

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The first time of being mustered on deck, says Bill to me, "Cuss my eyes, Bob, if there isn't the 'farnal Quaker!"

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"Well," says he, "if a fellow was green as China rice, cuss me if the reefers' mess wouldn't take it all out on him in a dozen watches.

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Finally, in desperation, blushing fiery red, he blurted out "a lot of cuss-words."

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I'm sorry I called Jack Mullins, or whatever his name is, such a lot of cuss-word names.

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It's somethin', I s'pose, that we've pulled through without losin' our hair; but we _have_ pulled through all right, an' now we want t' make this business pay; an' unless we go for that gold this business won't 'a' paid worth a cuss--an' instead o' comin' out on top we'll be left th' very worst kind!"

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These pots full of arrow-heads an' such stuff was only one of his little jokes, showin' that he must 'a' been a good-natured, comical old cuss, th' kind I always did like, anyway.

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Closer an' closer come tenderfoot, An' harder the whip to the hoss I put; But the Eastern cuss, with a smile on his face Ran up to my side with his easy pace-- Rode up to my side, an' dern his hide, Remarked 'twere a pleasant day fer a ride; Then axed, onconcerned, if I had a match, An' on his britches give it a scratch, Lit a cigarette, said he wished me good-day, An' as fresh as a daisy scooted away.

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I'm jes a rider of the range, plumb rough an' on-refined, An' wild an' keerless in my ways, like others of my kind; A reckless cuss in leather chaps, an' tanned an' blackened so You'd think I wuz a Greaser from the plains of Mexico.

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Don't no sooner hit the saddle than the exercises start, An' they're lackin' in perliminary fuss; You kin hear his j'ints a-crackin' like he's breakin' 'em apart, An' the hide jes' seems a-rippin' off the cuss, An' you sometimes git a joltin' that makes everything turn blue, An' you want to strictly mind what you're about, When you're fightin' with a broncho that has got it in fur you An' imagines that's the time to have it out.

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He stands still with feet a-sprawlin', An' his eye shows lots of white, An' he kinks his spinal column, An' his hide is puckered tight, He starts risin' an' a-jumpin', An' he strikes when you get near, An' you cuss him an' you thump him Till you get him by the ear,-- Then your right hand grabs the saddle An' you ketch your stirrup, too, An' you try to light a-straddle Like a woolly buckaroo; But he drops his head an' switches, Then he makes a backward jump, Out of reach your stirrup twitches But your right spur grabs his hump.

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"To Algiers, de city ob pirits; de hotbed ob wickedness; de home ob de Moors an' Turks an' Cabyles, and de cuss ob de whole wurld."

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We look a good 'eal worse than we are, besides; an' then the poor cuss couldn't talk to us, anyhow, an' he's be'n shy ever since he came, in October."

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"I reckon you've laid in a big supply of cuss-words as a stock in trade!

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I know'd the poor cuss was in misery, an' I know'd what I'd expect a chum o' mine to do if I was in Tom's place.

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He'll cuss the war, but you never hear him cuss'n' the United States.

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And, say, when Rupert gets that way he's an appealin' cuss.

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An' then I'll wake up that other cuss an' get rid of 'im.

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Ez for their l'yalty, don't take a goad to 't, But I do' want to block their only road to 't By lettin' 'em believe thet they can git More 'n wut they lost, out of our little wit: I tell ye wut, I 'm 'fraid we 'll drif' to leeward 'Thout we can put more stiffenin' into Seward; He seems to think Columby 'd better act Like a scared widder with a boy stiff-necked Thet stomps an' swears he wun't come in to supper; She mus' set up for him, ez weak ez Tupper, Keepin' the Constitootion on to warm, Till he 'll accept her 'pologies in form: The neighbors tell her he 's a cross-grained cuss Thet needs a hidin' 'fore he comes to wus; "No," sez Ma Seward, "he 's ez good 'z the best, All he wants now is sugar-plums an' rest"; "He sarsed my Pa," sez one; "He stoned my son," Another edds.

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That young cuss can fight like a tiger!

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We've got an old steer out at the packing-house that stands around at the foot of the runway leading up to the killing pens, looking for all the world like one of the village fathers sitting on the cracker box before the grocery--sort of sad-eyed, dreamy old cuss--always has two or three straws from his cud sticking out of the corner of his mouth.

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Milligan just stood there like a dumb Irishman and let me get through and go back and cuss him out all over again, with some trimmings that I had forgotten the first time, before he told me that you were the fellow who had made the bull.

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There was one old chap in the town--Bill Budlong--who took a heap of pride in being the simon pure cuss.

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When it came to cows, he had had a liberal education and he made out all right, but by and by it got on to ploughing time and Jeff naturally bought a mule--a little moth-eaten cuss, with sad, dreamy eyes and droopy, wiggly-woggly ears that swung in a circle as easy as if they ran on ball-bearings.

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A good many young fellows come to me looking for jobs, and start in by telling me what a mean house they have been working for; what a cuss to get along with the senior partner was; and how little show a bright, progressive clerk had with him.

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I wasn't really disposed to add a dog to my troubles, but on general principles I asked him what he wanted for the little cuss.

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I simply mention Josh in passing as an example of the fact that a fellow can't bank on getting a chance to go back and take up a thing that he has passed over once, and to call your attention to the fact that a man who knows his own business thoroughly will find an opportunity sooner or later of reaching the most hardened cuss of a buyer on his route and of getting a share of his.

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You can cuss him out till you've nothing but holy thoughts left in you to draw on, and you can lay the rawhide on him till he's striped like a circus zebra, and if you're cautious and reserved in his company he will just look grieved and pained and resigned.

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He's a good deal like the little red-headed cuss that we saw in the football game you took me to.

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He couldn't cuss even.

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I don't know any one who has better opportunities for making himself unpopular than an assistant, for the clerks are apt to cuss him for all the manager's meanness, and the manager is likely to find fault with him for all the clerks' cussedness.

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There wasn't any special harm in him, but there wasn't any special good, either, and I always feel that there's more hope for a fellow who's an out and out cuss than for one who's simply made up of a lot of little trifling meannesses.

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"Just you go out there and cuss, and see."

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Amer., _a merry cuss_.]

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The cuss turned green and stammered that he wasn't no animal tamer.

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When I think--Lord!--when she came here I was a friendless young cuss hanging on to a job by the skin of my teeth and now--You know I used to be crazy to know you when I met you in the hall and on the stairs and it was Mary Rose, bless her heart!

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They never want to hear the name of Yukon again except as a cuss-word.

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"Ye be a pert girl, Tessibel, and I were a cuss for trying to scare ye--but the brindle bull has got to die."

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The intense longing and misery in her voice made Tess gasp: "Nope, he air too mean a cuss to live.

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"daddy the ice air a goin out of the lake ben letts air a gettin well he air a cuss i air lonlie yit without ye i red my bible last nite i cribbed it frum the mishion it says as how god air gooder then i thote he wer cum home and i reads as how a brite lite was a shinin about the cross and as how the christ ruz up here air a story bout a squatter brat it air bout tess she cride and cride fer her dady til her eel what she luved herd her and he cride hisself to deth this here mornin he wer belly up in the bucket i air yer brat dady "the man on the cross ruz fer the hull world aint it nise to ruz."

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"Aw, cuss!

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He air a wicked cuss, he air!"

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And I buys milk for him, and makes him eat, and he sleeps here," Tess pounded her own strong breast, and ended, "till his dead pappy and his ma come after him, poor little cuss."

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I gather you didn't use any cuss words.

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And it isn't worth while to sit around and cuss the labor agents either.

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"The game little cuss would go in a minute if we could get him to the ovoid.

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All he done was jus' set dar and cuss, and a heap of times you couldn't see nothin' for him to cuss 'bout.

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The name of the Count Ro-Say-No would be a sufficient guarantee for anybody in the world but a cuss like me.

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If I were an American I would have no scruples about calling him a 'darned old cuss': as it is, I will smother my feelings, and let you discover his failings for yourself."

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The old cuss was lonely, Cooper told himself.

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We brought up before the saddest-lookin' cuss I ever saw out of bed.

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"Would you like the loan of a few able-bodied cuss-words?"

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I did have something of a chill when I caught sight of a sheepish-looking cuss in the glass.

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'Cuss the brute,' he said, 'the divil's in her, sure an' sartin'.'

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'Cuss her!' reiterated the wizard.

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'Cuss her!' he said again, looking round for the cat.

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'Cuss her!' he said, for the third time that morning, and with additional unction.

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"But the parson, he slep' on't, and then didn't do it: he only come out next Sunday with a tip-top sermon on the 'Riginal Cuss' that was pronounced on things in gineral, when Adam fell, and showed how every thing was allowed to go contrary ever since.

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That 'ere's what I call the _cuss_, the 'riginal cuss, that come on man for hearkenin' to the voice o' his wife,--that 'ere was what did it.

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"'Ef you'd a been left to get that 'are money, there'd a come a cuss with it,' says I.

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We were familiar figures by this time, and the farmers when they saw me leaping a pasture fence or climbing a hill, would smile (I assume that they smiled), and say, there goes that literary cuss, or words to that general effect.

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One morning as we met at breakfast he replied to my question with a groan and a mild cuss word: "Worse, thank you!

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He wrote me that the men of the lumber camp spoke of him as a "queer old cuss," but that disturbed him not at all.

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but didn't them two cheap imitation hunters tell us what they thought o' us pr'fessionals--said 'bout everything anybody could think of, 'cept cuss us.

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"Sock it to the old cuss," commented Amos.

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I know a whole string of cuss words an' I can say them as fast as now-I-lay-me.

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When in doubt consult a good dictionary:_ Chaw, quoth, fake, reckon, dern, forsooth, his'n, an invite, entre nous, tote, hadn't oughter, yclept, a combine, ain't, dole, a try, nouveau riche, puny, grub, twain, a boom, alter ego, a poke, cuss, eld, enthused, mesalliance, tollable, disremember, locomote, a right smart ways, chink, afeard, orate, nary a one, yore, pluralized, distingué, ruination, complected, mayhap, burglarized, mal de mer, tuckered, grind, near, suicided, callate, cracker-jack, erst, railroaded, chic, down town, deceased (verb), a rig, swipe, spake, on a toot, knocker, peradventure, guess, prof, classy, booze, per se, cute, biz, bug-house, swell, opry, rep, photo, cinch, corker, in cahoot, pants, fess up, exam, bike, incog, zoo, secondhanded, getable, outclassed, gents, mucker, galoot, dub, up against it, on tick, to rattle, in hock, busted on the bum, to watch out, get left.

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John is a _crazy cuss_.

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So a deputation of the Crescents and I waited on him, and after a plain talk concluded to "cuss and quit."

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"I have warned you what a slippery cuss Jesse is." said Timberlake, "Now you have seen some samples of it."

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Waal, sir, ther cuss cracked on sail an' fled.

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I reckon Mars Jones gwine cuss a plenty when he fine it out.

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Now all o' these blessins the Wigs might enjoy, Ef they 'd gumption enough the right means to imploy;[14] Fer the silver spoon born in Dermocracy's mouth Is a kind of a scringe thet they hev to the South; Their masters can cuss 'em an' kick 'em an' wale 'em, An' they notice it less 'an the ass did to Balaam; In this way they screw into second-rate offices Wich the slaveholder thinks 'ould substract too much off his ease; The file-leaders, I mean, du, fer they, by their wiles, Unlike the old viper, grow fat on their files.

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Now I haint no objections agin particklar climes, Nor agin ownin' anythin' (except the truth sometimes), But, ez I haint no capital, up there among ye, may be, You might raise funds enough fer me to buy a low-priced baby, An' then, to suit the No'thern folks, who feel obleeged to say They hate an' cuss the very thing they vote fer every day, Say you 're assured I go full butt fer Libbaty's diffusion An' made the purchis on'y jest to spite the Institootion;-- But, golly!

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