The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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But even ef they caird the day, there would n't be no endurin' To stand upon a platform with sech critters ez Van Buren;-- An' his son John, tu, I can't think how thet air chap should dare To speak ez he doos; wy, they say he used to cuss an' swear!

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Yet he never went to meetin' what you'd call reg'lar and he did cuss consider'ble.

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To most men tub time is the jolliest in the day; here it is one of evil temper, for after you have waited say twenty minutes in a passage for your chance, you get into a little wet steamy place over the engines, with possibly no port and poorly ventilated, and have your tub in a hurry for you know other fellows are waiting outside, and instead of gaily carolling your morning song you feel angry and cuss cusses, not loud, but profound as Tuscarora Deep.

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A fat little cuss was leading them, and the way he plowed through that underbrush was a caution.

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"The cuss ought to be reduced to the ranks," said another.

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Then, in addition to the honor of moving in distinguished society, before the very eyes and in the high places of those who have hitherto always considered him as a lowly cuss, the Romany realizes far more than the common peasant the contrast-contradiction, or the humor of the drama, its bit of mystification, and especially the mystification of the house-folk.

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Dey bust out cussin', but what did a bee keer about cuss words!

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I ain't never hear Marse Henry cuss but once an' dat wus de time dat some gentlemens come ter de house an' sez dat dar am a war 'twixt de north an' de south.

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She plowed a hateful little donkey dat wuz about as hongry as she wuz, an' he wuz a cuss if'en dar eber wuz one.

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When dey goes ter de kitchen whar mammy am cookin' she cuss dem out an' run dem outen her kitchen.

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He aint never whup ner cuss me an' do we had our fusses an' our troubles we trusted in de Lawd an' we got through.

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Sometimes he'd lose his temper an' cuss, den he'd say right quick, 'God forgive me, I pray.'

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So, you see, it may have been the charming Doris, or Howes here, or my unworthy self, that put those obnoxious questions to your sister--no one knows for sure, and the mean cuss won't tell."

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She might have stayed with Billy till mornin', the impatient little cuss."

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Before I had time to explain the matter to myself, Williams spoke: "I guess he's got out all the vigilantes;" and then bitterly: "The boys in old Mizzouri wouldn't believe this ef I told it on him, the dog-goned mean cuss."

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I jes teck my foot in my han' an' come 'long way by myself, 'cuz I think maybe a ooman 'at could cuss like a man mout shoot like a man too."

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Luck liked Scotty more'n me.-- _I_ got married: Scotty, he Never even would _apply_ Fer the pension-money I Had to beg of "Uncle Sam"-- That's the kind o' cuss _I_ am!-- Scotty allus first and best-- Me the last and ornriest!

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"I ain't goin' to kill ye this time, b'y; it's another cuss I'm after, a kinder sort o' skunk of a different colour, I guess.

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"I'se know what dat mean cuss do it fo'--'cause I wouldn't bring no hot coffee to um cabin fo' him dis mornin'.

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"I guess the stoopid cuss can't make no durned mistake about thet," I heard the captain say to Mr Flinders, as he came down the companion hatchway, rubbing his hands, as if in anticipation of his dinner; "an', by thunder, I dew feel all powerful hungry!"

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"Cuss ye, b'y.

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"I wer comin' fur ye presently, ye durned cuss!

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Ha ain't worth a cuss!

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"Well, ye young cuss!" said the skipper, who had been giving all his orders from the lower deck, which he had not left since he had rolled out from the cuddy under the poop in the paroxysm of passion and pain that led to such a dread catastrophe--all that had happened, although it takes a long time to describe, having occurred within a very brief interval of his first outburst on me.

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"The durned cuss brought it on hisself, I reckon; fur, if he hedn't climb'd into the riggin' he wouldn't hev dropped overboard!"

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The little cuss warn't to blame; the nigger said so, hisself!"

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Sam sed as how his father, a darkey too, in course, wer a fetish man; an' I rec'l'ects when I wer to hum, down Chicopee way, ther' wer an ole nigger thaar thet usest to say thet same, an' the ole cuss wud go of a night into the graveyard, which wer more'n nary a white man would ha' done, ye bet!"

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"He will, ye bet yer bottom dollar on thet, Cholly, if he ain't made comfable down below in Davy Jones' locker, whar the poor old cuss air now," said the American sailor in his deep voice, increasing my superstitious fears by the very way in which he spoke.

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"Guess thaar ain't no jalap in this lot, Flinders, hey?" said the captain, with a snigger; "thet thaar cuss of a stooard would be too skeart of my fixin' him same ez I done thet durned nigger to try on any games, ye bet!"

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I sw'ar, or else I wouldn't a' shot the cuss.

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I specs thet air darkey's sperrit ain't comf'able like, an' ye ken bet y'r bottom dollar he won't rest quiet till he feels slick; fur ye sees ez how the poor cuss didn't come by his death rightful like, in lawful fashion."

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"Guess I'll jump overboard an' drown myself, fur the devil's in the shep, an' thaar's a cuss hangin' over her!"

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"Who's thet durned cuss a-calling o' me names?

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I seed him a-buzzin' round the poop jest now, fur he hailed me ez he poked his long jib-boom of a nose up the companion; but, I didn't take no notice o' the cuss, fur I wer outer sorts like, feelin' right down chawed up!"

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"B'y, thaar's allars a cuss tied on to gold an' greenbacks, sich ez we used ter hev a little time back," said Hiram sententiously.

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Guess I ain't afeard o' no cuss, once I comes across thet cave the Dutch mate wer a-speakin' on!"

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He's a won'erful slimy sort o' cuss, an' since he's ben skeart by Sam Jedfoot's ghostess he hez ben a durned sight too mealy-mouthed fur me!"

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"Guess some cuss hez ben a-cultivatin' hyar," observed Hiram, looking critically round.

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"Durned, though, if Sam's ghostess or any other cuss 'll kep me back now.

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"I'se allers tink afore dat Jim Chowder one pore cuss, but now I'se pray fo' him ebbery day ob my life!"

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"I mean the vall'y whaar the skeletons is crawlin' about an' the skulls grinning--thet air one belongin' to the buccaneer cuss is a prime one, I ken tell ye.

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"Harm, cuss ye?" retorted Captain Snaggs.

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"Guess, we air all on us pretty wa-al season'd to them ghostesses by this time, both aboard ship an' ashore, an' I don't care a cuss fur the hull bilin' on them, I reckon!"

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"Cuss me, Bill!" the latter at length rejoined--"cuss me!

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Cuss the weemen!

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"Cuss yur larfin!" cried he at length.

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Cuss me, eft hain't carried away one o' my ears!"

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how thu 'll cuss when they finds the trap empty.

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"Wal, we've gin them Injuns goss, I reck'n; but cuss the luck, the yeller-bellies hev got clur off.

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The durned rennygade niggur!" he added with angry emphasis, "I know'd we dud wrong to let 'im go; we oughter served 'im as I perposed; we oughter cut his durnation throat, an scalped 'im the minnut we tuk 'im: cuss the luck thet we didn't!

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I'll make a fence the _law_ can't run under nor jump over; and I don't care a cuss for the cattle and pigs.

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"I hope it killed the cuss," said one of the village story-tellers.

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It's ten to one he sent that cuss to watch 'em, Wa'al, they're a queer lot, an' I'm afeared thar's plenty of trouble ahead among 'em.

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I made snares o' it, an' trapped a lot o' the rats; but they grew shy too, cuss 'em!

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Cuss beaver, say this child.

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"Counts six," he continued, muttering to himself while placing the scalp in his belt; "six at fifty--three hunder shiners for 'Pash har; cuss beaver trappin'!

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But she are gone; that leetle gun are gone; an' the mar too; an' hyur I am 'ithout eyther beast or weepun; cuss the luck!"

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Cuss the luck!

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A young lady who served as proof-reader in the establishment had been somewhat shocked by the scant morals of the mother of Luck, and when she came to the scene where Kentuck, after reverently fondling the infant, said, "he wrastled with my finger, the d----d little cuss," the indignant proof-reader was ready to throw up her engagement rather than go any further with a story so wicked and immoral.

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"Sociable cuss," Bowers commented ironically.

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"Cuss him!" said a third; "I was takin' a bully snooze."

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See one 'tis bad luck; see two it be fun or good luck; see three 'tis a wedding; see four and cuss me if it bain't death."

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That, and the occasional whine of a hungry cur, foraging on the outskirts of the camp for a stray bone, alone broke the silence, save when a vicious drop of rain detached itself meditatively from the ridge-pole of the tent, and fell upon the wick of our tallow candle, making it "cuss," as Ned Strong described it.

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1. dis _burse_, purse 2. dis _cord_, heart 3. dis _cuss_, shake 4. dif _fer_, bear 5. dif _fuse_, pour 6. dis _loc_ ate, place 7. dis _miss_, send 8. dis _pel_, drive 9. dis _pose_, put 10. dis _rupt_, break 11. dis _sect_, cut 12. dis _tend_, stretch 1.

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"You're a mighty solemn-faced cuss, young feller," he said, with drunken hilarity; "have a drink with me, and don't be so ---- high and mighty.

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"Not a cuss got in or out for over a week."

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I begun to fear that the varmint had a cave, and so, cuss him!

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Cuss the bar!"

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I had a three days' walk o' it, and prehaps I didn't cuss a few!

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"Up with you, and don't cuss.

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We were running so far behind that the only thing which saved us from a dispossess was the fact that they couldn't get a constable who would carry the snakes out to the sidewalk; but Merritt was a resourceful cuss and I felt confident that he would figure out some scheme to win out.

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But I frar consider'ble nettled by yer words, ye see,--'kase I know I be a powerful, lazy, shif'less cuss----" "Ye know a lie, then," his helpmate interrupted promptly.

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The cuss tried ter be funny.

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But he was cut up, poor old cuss!

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When I'm on de one side de jump-high is on de oder; and if I go back widout one he'll cuss me for a d----d stumbling woolly-head.

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That old seedy cuss?" said the superintendent.

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Others had tried it, but the sudden cooling of the metal had caused the moldboard to warp and lose its shape, and all good plowmen know that a moldboard has to have a form as exact in its way as the back of a violin, otherwise it simply pushes its way through the ground, gathering soil and rubbish in front of it, until horses, lines, lash and cuss words drop in despair, and give it up.

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I ain't seen more than one or two that was worth a cuss--not a one I thought was good enough for my girl.

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That was the first time I ever heard Bonnie Bell cuss.

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But when I think that, like enough, some low-down cuss like me'll come around and break through my fence and carry off my girl, to take such chances as her ma done--I tell you it makes the sweat come right out on me."

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He war a frien'ly sorter cuss, good-nachured an' kind-spoken, but ye could put all the larnin' he hed in the corner o' yer eye."

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"He sha'n't sit up thar an' cuss the baby, Mr. Cheerman."

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I _know_ the law don't 'low a magistrate an' a jestice ter cuss in his high office, in the presence of the county court.

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Dun no ez I ever see a friskier leetle cuss.

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He used to cuss the clerks around the store jus' from habit, an' when I went to work for him he said: "'Young man, maybe I'll cuss you out some mornin', but don't pay no 'tention to it--it's just a habit I've got into, an' the boys all understand it.'

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"You damned little cuss," shouted Jack enthusiastically, as he grabbed the boy and hugged him--"to make a sucker of me that way!

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"I hate to say it, Aurora, but I'm afraid it won't do no good; she's a tough cuss when it comes to money--" "But she must; he's her own flesh and blood and she's cheated him out of what is rightfully his.

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"You're a good-natured little cuss," grinned the man.

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He's a independent old cuss--work if he damn good an' feels like it, an' if he don't he won't.

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I was too sleepy to give a cuss--they got mine, too."

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Them there boys would _just cuss the life out of me_.

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Why, your American soldier is the most independent "cuss" in the world; and if a regiment is in line, and asked to vote, you may rest assured they vote as they please, and are governed by the dictates of their own consciences.

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Onward the boys trudged, seemingly not caring a cuss if school kept or not.

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But cuss the paymaster, "or any other man."

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Folks at home have frequently heard of the strong Union sentiment pervading Tennessee, but, "cuss me" if I haven't hunted in vain for the article during the past two weeks, and, with no exception whatever, save among the laboring class, have I found an out-and-out Union man.

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I was told, by one of the prisoners, that, at one time, twenty rebels were firing at that "little cuss in the blue jacket," as they called the Colonel, during the day's performance.

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"You know I was allus a rough cuss.

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"Ye-e-s," drawled Jim, "but I believe in still stronger measures; and rather than bother with the legislature, owned as it is by the roads, I'd favor writing cuss-words on the water-tanks, or going up the track a piece and makin' faces at one of their confounded whistling-posts or cattle-guards--or something real drastic like that!"

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