The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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'You shifless cuss!

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I tell ye he'll never make a farmer, an' if he marries an' settles down here he'll git t' be a poet, mebbe, er some such shif'less cuss, an' die in the poorhouse.

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"'Tain't possible thet leetle cuss uv a trout 's heavier 'n mine."

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'He was alwuss a gritty cuss,' said Uncle Eb, wiping his eyes with a big red handkerchief as he rose to go.

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I don't blame him for killin' the cuss, not a bit; I'd have shot any man livin' that 'ad taken a good horse o' mine up that trail.

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You know what a cuss I used to be about fast nags?

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"Looks like a moneyed cuss."

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But they never wore gloves that some other poor cuss earned."

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"The little cuss knows you.

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I stood him while we were two white men against the banana brindles; but now, when there were prospects of my exchanging even cuss words with an American citizen, I put him back in his proper place.

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No, sir, it's human nature; and it was quite natural that Mornie, when she caught sight o' Mrs. Sol's face last night, should rise up and cuss us both.

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cuss you!

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'It won't matter about the grinder hearing him, for he can't learn to cuss worse than he do already!'

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A disposition to smash furniture, and heave knives around; an inclination to howl when drunk, and that frequent; a habitooal use of vulgar language, and a tendency to cuss the casooal visitor,--seemed to pint," added Mr. McClosky with submissive hesitation "that--she--was--so to speak--quite onsuited to the marriage relation in its holiest aspeck."

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See him weep; hear him cuss between the lines!

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She is a literary cuss herself.

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and on the reverse: FOR SALE The proprietor of the hereinbefore mentioned Promise desires to part with it on account of ill health and obliged to go away somewheres so as to let it recipricate, and will take any reasonable amount for it above 2 percent of its face because experienced parties think it will not keep but only a little while in this kind of weather & is a kind of proppity that don't give a cuss for cold storage nohow.

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She is a literary cuss herself.

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and on the reverse: FOR SALE The proprietor of the hereinbefore mentioned Promise desires to part with it on account of ill health and obliged to go away somewheres so as to let it reciprocate, and will take any reasonable amount for it above 2 percent of its face because experienced parties think it will not keep but only a little while in this kind of weather & is a kind of proppity that don't give a cuss for cold storage nohow.

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Now, cuss me out, if you like."

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Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; [spark-spot]; soldier, control."

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"Some trifin' cuss took old Steve Brayton's jes to cross the river, without the grace to tie it to the bank, let 'lone takin' it back.

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(Pa'sons used to cuss in them days like plain honest men.)

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Dat ar expression he signify a darned old cuss dat says to dis child, 'My lord Vespasium, take benevolence on your insidious slave, and invest me in a bread-bag,' instead of fighting for de ladies like a freenindependum citizen.

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"The darned old cuss," said Vespasian, with a pathetic sigh at not being let hit him.

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_Ramgolam (in Hindostanee)._ He whom Destiny, too strong for mortals, now oppresses with iron hand and feeds with the bread of affliction---- _Mr. Tickell (translating)._ He who by bad luck has got into trouble---- _Ramgolam._ Has long observed the virtues that embellish the commander of this ship resembling a mountain, and desired to imitate them---- _Tickell._ Saw what a good man the captain is, and wanted to be like him---- _Vespasian._ The darned old cuss.

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"I'm bound to cross the obsequious cuss with the catawamptiousest gal in Guinea, and one that never saw a blacking bottle, not even in a dream."

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He was going to say "Cuss," but remembering his pupil's late heroic conduct, softened it down to Anomaly.

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He's a cynical cuss.

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He's a cynical cuss.

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But, you see, I've never believed that work was the cuss of mankind, like some folks, and no matter how much money a young feller's got I think he's better off doin' somethin'.

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Then he dropped a cuss or two, and said he'd no longer get his living by curing their twopenny souls o' such d--- nonsense as that (excusing my common way), and he took to farming straightway, and then 'a dropped down dead in a nor'-west thunderstorm; it being said-hee-hee!-that Master God was in tantrums wi'en for leaving his service,-hee-hee!

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Asa Oh yes, lots of them, but the old cuss never read them, though.

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Let the old cuss go, Murcott.

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Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near saying a cuss-word-but you see I'm on an awful strain, in this palaver, on account of having to cramp down and draw everything so mild.

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Old Squire Hogadorn could carry around more mixed licker, and cuss better than most any man I ever see.

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Now do you know, that poor cuss warn't gone only sixteen minutes, and yet that Incorporated Company of Mean Men DOCKED HIM FOR THE LOST TIME!"

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After a brief silence, Pat Riley, miner, said: "He's the 15-puzzle, that cuss.

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"SIMON WHEELER," Sonora.-The following simple and touching remarks and accompanying poem have just come to hand from the rich gold-mining region of Sonora: To Mr. Mark Twain: The within parson, which I have set to poetry under the name and style of "He Done His Level Best," was one among the whitest men I ever see, and it ain't every man that knowed him that can find it in his heart to say he's glad the poor cuss is busted and gone home to the States.

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He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray, And dance and drink and jest, And lie and steal-all one to him- He done his level best.

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Cuss'd if I want any breakfast!"

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Relations bound to have it so-don't pay no attention to dying injunctions, minute a corpse's gone; but, if I had my way, if I didn't respect his last wishes and tow him behind the hearse I'll be cuss'd.

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He drew himself to the gratings, grasping them with his hands, and looking out through them, sat waiting till the officer was passing once more, and then said: "Sweetness, you'd better mind your eye, now, because you beats have killed this cuss.

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Relations bound to have it so-don't pay no attention to dying injunctions, minute a corpse's gone; but if I had my way, if I didn't respect his last wishes and tow him behind the hearse, I'll be cuss'd.

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He was a pious cuss, though.

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Say-a friend of mine wants to write a play with me, I to furnish the broad-comedy cuss.

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I mun forgi'e thee; we're owd friends, An' fratchin's not for us; Blackbirds an' spinks(1) I can't abide, At doves an' crows I cuss.

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"Fust off I thought I'd have the old cuss jailed," continued Mr. Saunders.

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Your preacher ain't worth a cuss.

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"The Doc's a pretty level headed cuss.

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He's an ornery cuss, he'd appreciate it all right, that old mule.

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Why," he added, decidedly, "he's more stuck on himself than that mean old cuss you was tellin' about this afternoon, and without half the reason."

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"No," said Bill sullenly, "he's a mean cuss."

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But Jacob was to him always "a mean cuss," and David he could not appreciate.

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"Ornery cuss, eh?" he remarked; "and gall, too, eh?

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And, suddenly conscious that someone nearly behind him had begun talking about his family, he screwed his face round to see an old be-wigged buffer, who spoke as if he were eating his own words--queer-looking old cuss, the sort of man he had seen once or twice dining at Park Lane and punishing the port; he knew now where they 'dug them up.'

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Real jewellery is very like sham jewellery after all, and the "Artemus" vein in Charles Browne's mental constitution--the vein of humour, whose source was a strong contempt of all things false, mean, shabby, pretentious, and only external--of bunkum and Barnumisation--must have seen a gigantic speculation realising shiploads of dollars if the Tower could have been taken over to the States, and exhibited from town to town--the Stars and Stripes flying over it--with a four-horse lecture to describe the barbarity of the ancient British Barons and the cuss of chivalry.

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My show at present consists of three moral Bares, a Kangaroo (a amoozin little Raskal--t'would make you larf yerself to deth to see the little cuss jump up and squeal) wax figgers of G. Washington Gen. Tayler John Bunyan Capt Kidd and Dr. Webster in the act of killin Dr. Parkman, besides several miscellanyus moral wax statoots of celebrated piruts & murderers, &c., ekalled by few & exceld by none.

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My kangaroo is the most larfable little cuss I ever saw.

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The fust time was when I undertuk to lick a owdashus cuss who cut a hole in my tent & krawld threw.

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"I mean the gay and festiv cuss who calls me a man of sin.

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Go it, my gay and festiv cuss!"

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"What under the son are you abowt?" cried I. Sez he, "What did you bring this pussylanermus cuss here fur?" and he hit the wax figger another tremenjis blow on the hed.

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He don't do nobody no good & is a cuss to society & a pirit on honest peple's corn beef barrils.

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So I opened in Kolonial Hall, which was crowded every nite with stujents, &c. Perfesser Finny gazed for hours at my Kangaroo, but when that sagashus but onprincipled little cuss set up one of his onarthly yellins and I proceeded to hosswhip him, the Perfesser objected.

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I will retire and do my lasserated hand up in a rag, and meanwhile I request you to meat out summery and severe punishment to the vishus beest," I hosswhipt the little cuss for upwards of 15 minutes.

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No man on this footstool can rise & git up & say I ever knowinly injered no man or wimmin folks, while all agree that my Show is ekalled by few and exceld by none, embracin as it does a wonderful colleckshun of livin wild Beests of Pray, snaix in grate profushun, a endliss variety of life-size wax figgers, & the only traned kangaroo in Ameriky-- the most amoozin little cuss ever introjuced to a discriminatin public.

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Go home, you low cuss!"

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My show konsists of a serious of wax works, snakes, a paneramy kalled a Grand Movin Diarea of the War in the Crymear, komic songs and the Cangeroo, which larst little cuss continners to konduct hisself in the most outrajus stile.

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That Jack Fawlstarf is likewise a immoral old cuss, take him how ye may, and Hamlick is as crazy as a loon.

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But bitterly did I cuss the day I ever sot foot in the retchid place.

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But a low cuss named Iago, who I bleeve wants to git Otheller out of his snug government birth, now goes to work & upsets the Otheller family in the most outrajus stile.

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Mrs. Iago cums in just as Otheller has finished the fowl deed & givs him fits right & left, showin him that he has bin orfully gulled by her miserble cuss of a husband.

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Wall, take the advice of a Amerykin sitterzen, take orf them gownds & don't try to get up a religious fite, which is 40 times wuss nor a prize fite, over Albert Edard, who wants to receive you all on a ekal footin, not keerin a tinker's cuss what meetin house you sleep in Sundays.

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Square Baxter, who Jenerusly refoozed to take a sent for a bottle of camfire; lawyer Perkinses wife who rit sum versis on the Eppisodes; the Editer of the Baldinsville "Bugle of Liberty," who nobly assisted me in wollupin my Kangeroo, which sagashus little cuss seriusly disturbed the Eppisodes by his outrajus screetchins & kickins up; Mis.

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It is here, as ushil; and the low cuss who called it a Wacant Lot, and wanted to know why they didn't ornament it with sum Bildins', is a onhappy Outcast in Naponsit.

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"Sound as a cuss!"

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"Go it, my sweet cuss!"

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I'm for the Union as she air, and withered be the arm of every ornery cuss who attempts to bust her up.

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ORGUSTUS is a ethereal cuss.

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EAGLE!" yelled the infuriated Washington, rolling off his horse and hitting Cornwallis a frightful blow on the head with the flat of his sword, "do you call me a EAGLE, you mean, sneakin' cuss?"

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Justice to the noble aboorygine warrants me in sayin' that orrigernerly he was a majestic cuss.

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Says he, Yes, I have, old hoss-fly (he was a low cuss)--yes, I have.

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"Owdashus cuss!" yelled the capting, "away with thee or I shall do mur-rer-der-r-r!"

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With the exception of my Uncle Wilyim--who, as I've before stated, is a uncle by marrige only, who is a low cuss and filled his coat pockets with pies and biled eggs at his weddin breakfast, given to him by my father, and made the clergyman as united him a present of my father's new overcoat, and when my father on discoverin' it got in a rage and denounced him, Uncle Wilyim said the old man (meanin my parent) hadn't any idee of first class Humer!--with the exception of this wretched Uncle the escutchin of my fam'ly has never been stained by Games.

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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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Brother Kimball is a gay and festive cuss of some seventy summers--or some'ers thereabout.

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But the infamus cuss who I hired to lead me round towns in the day time to excite simpathy drank freely of spiritoous licker unbeknowns to me one day, & while under their inflooance he led me into the canal.

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What a reckless old cuss he was!

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"Let me write the songs of a nashun," sed I, "and I don't care a cuss who goes to the legislater!

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"Cuss your clumsiness," says he, "can't you come to a graffick without punching your ugly hed Into other people's stumucks?"

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I tuk him to bed after the 3d tumbler, that the cuss of a british Waiter might not see one of us free & enlightened citizens onable to walk strate.

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"Take that, you blamed cuss," he said, catching LeNoir in the jaw and knocking his head with a thud against the wall.

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"Mean cuss!" ejaculated Yankee.

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I've been in this burg for near eight years, and I was a drinkin', swearin', fightin' cuss.

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Well, big Jim was always a careless cuss, you know.

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Wad ye have the Cuss o' Jazus upon us all?

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I was told that he was a master of the art of swearing--that he could pour forth a continual flow of oaths for a full five minutes without repeating one single "cuss."

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To the question, "Are the conditions surrounding hired labor on the farm in your neighborhood satisfactory to the hired men?" he answers: "Yes, unless he is a drunken cuss," adding that he would like to blow up the stillhouses and root out whiskey and beer.

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I don't care about the milk but the damn cuss dug up the remains of the cub I had buried in the old ditch, he visited the old meat house but found nothing.

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