The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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"It's all very well for you to laugh, but I tell you I was so startled, I hit his cuff hard, and turned around, and cut out of the room-I left him-" Cuss stopped.

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"When I hit his cuff," said Cuss, "I tell you, it felt exactly like hitting an arm.

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He looked suspiciously at Cuss.

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Haysman's meadow was gay with a tent, in which Mrs. Bunting and other ladies were preparing tea, while, without, the Sunday-school children ran races and played games under the noisy guidance of the curate and the Misses Cuss and Sackbut.

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At that precise moment Mr. Cuss and Mr. Bunting were in the parlour.

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And on the table under the window where the stranger had been wont to work, Cuss had hit almost at once on three big books in manuscript labelled "Diary."

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"Diary!" said Cuss, putting the three books on the table.

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"Diary," repeated Cuss, sitting down, putting two volumes to support the third, and opening it.

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Cuss turned the pages over with a face suddenly disappointed.

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"No illustrations throwing light-" "See for yourself," said Mr. Cuss.

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"A general impression first, Cuss, and then , you know, we can go looking for clues."

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Then he took the volume Cuss handed him in a leisurely manner.

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And "Please shut that door," said Mr. Cuss, irritably.

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"I daresay so," said Cuss.

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"One thing is indisputable," said Bunting, drawing up a chair next to that of Cuss.

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I cannot of course believe in this absurd invisibility story-" "It's incredible," said Cuss-"incredible.

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I don't know if you have ever seen a really good conjuror-" "I won't argue again," said Cuss.

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He looked into the face of Cuss, close to his own, and each saw a horrified reflection of his own sickly astonishment.

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"Mr. Cuss, I s'pose," said Hall.

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And suddenly the parlour door was opened, and Mr. Cuss appeared, and without glancing at her rushed at once down the steps toward the corner.

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The face of Mr. Cuss was angry and resolute, but his costume was defective, a sort of limp white kilt that could only have passed muster in Greece.

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In another moment Mr. Cuss was back in the parlour.

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"Invisible Man," said Cuss, and rushed on to the window.

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"Yes," replied the soldier, desperately, "en the lieutenant is ther man ter shoot me--cuss his red-hot blood!" and he stalked away toward the stables as if possessed by a sudden resolve.

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Whately was ter'ble stirred up 'bout the Yank's talkin' ter his cousin, en would like ter kill 'im, but his officer-notions won't let 'im kill the blue- coated cuss ez I would.

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I 'lowed he orter talk ter us 'bout wages en he des larf en cuss me.

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"That Yankee cuss dead?" cried Perkins in undisguised exultation.

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Ef thar's a cuss yonder makin' this 'sturbance we'll roast 'im alive."

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"I say, Hob't Ma'tine," he began, "don' yer cuss me fer eatin' all the supper.

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This yere Jackson's a lively cuss, en I 'low we'll chin till mawnin'."

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"Ye're a lively cuss, en I hopes we'll have a chaince to chin agin."

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One glance would tell you he was the comical cuss.

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"Cuss it!" said he, strongly, "if that ain't too bad!

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"Why," said he, thoughtfully, stroking the white goatee on his chin, "cuss me if that ain't from the speech that country bumpkin, Lincoln, made in June last before the Black Republican convention in Illinois."

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"Cuss me if I understand him," said Mr. Worington.

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"Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket."

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"Cuss it!" said he, strongly, "if that ain't too bad!

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"Why," said he, thoughtfully, stroking the white goatee on his chin, "cuss me if that ain't from the speech that country bumpkin, Lincoln, made in June last before the Black Republican convention in Illinois."

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"Cuss me if I understand him," said Mr. Worington.

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"Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket."

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If you mean that smooth-faced cuss that stutters and lives on Braden's Hill, I called on him, but he was out.

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"Job is an independent cuss," he said, "I'm afraid he'd regard that as an unwarranted trespass on his preserves."

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"I've often asked myself why I ever had any use for such a secretive cuss as you," declared young Mr. Gaylord.

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Peter Pardriff's a grateful cuss, all-right, all right."

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If that crazy cuss Crewe hadn't broken loose, it would have been different.

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"Let's roll the cuss in the fancy collar," proposed one of the head-hunters,--meaning me.

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"Why, cuss me if it isn't Billy!

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They didn't cuss you personally,--that'll come later, of course.

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"H-haven't took that Worthington cuss?"

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Mean cuss."

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Hardest man to talk to I ever met--never see a man before but what I could get him to say somethin', if it was only a cuss word.

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"Cuss it!" said he, strongly, "if that ain't too bad!

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"Why," said he, thoughtfully, stroking the white goatee on his chin, "cuss me if that ain't from the speech that country bumpkin, Lincoln, made in June last before the Black Republican convention in Illinois."

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"Cuss me if I understand him," said Mr. Worington.

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"Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket."

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

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No, he wasn't aware that Shackford had had trouble with any particular individual; believed he did have a difficulty once with Slocum, the marble man; but he was always fetching suits against the town and shying lawyers at the mill directors,--a disagreeable old cuss altogether.

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Cuss me for a vool!

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"Cuss the thing!" he exclaimed, whilst the skin of his face took a mottled hue that was the nearest approach he ever made to a blush.

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As soon as he saw me he stopped short, as if he had seen a ghost, and said, "Say, ain't you the damned cuss that I fired off my boat?"

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Then the sons within had interfered from their beds, swearing that their father was the noisiest old "cuss" unhung, they having had their necessary slumbers disturbed.

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Sending up here to look for sheep-skins, cuss his impudence!

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"Oh!--cuss the thing!" shrieked Mr. Spriggs, losing his equanimity with his equilibrium.

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"Where's Timmis?" said he, one day after he had taken a seat, and puffed and blowed for the space of five minutes--"Cuss them stairs; they'll be the death o' me."

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"Oh!-cuss the thing!" shrieked Mr. Spriggs, losing his equanimity with his equilibrium.

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"Where's Timmis?" said he, one day after he had taken a seat, and puffed and blowed for the space of five minutes-"Cuss them stairs; they'll be the death o' me."

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The cuss got kind of affectionate, and after a while crawled right into our hut to catch flies and other varmin.

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"I guess that must be a suck-cuss hoss," remarked Mr. Sewell, resting his loosely jointed figure against the rail fence as he watched his departing guest.

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“We went down and down, until I began to think the old cuss was going to get me safe too, so I sung out—‘Hello!

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John, my son, for my sake, a little water.’ “Just then a little rascal stuck a hot iron into him, and off he ran in the flames, ‘cacheing’ on the cool side of a big chunk of fire, a-looking at us for water; but I cared no more for him than the Pawnee whose scalp was tucked in my belt for stealing my horses on Coon Creek; and I said:— “‘This hoss doesn't care a cuss for you; you're a sneaking hypocrite; you deserve all you've got and more too—and look here, old boy, it's me that says so.’ “I strayed off a piece, pretending to get cool, but this hoss began to get scared, and that's a fact; for the devils carried Cormon until they got tired of him, and, said I to myself, ‘Ain't they been doing me the same way?

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"You can threat and cuss all you hanker," he chuckled.

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I'm a persuasive little cuss when I choose to exert myself."

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"Cuss a little, if it will help any," he suggested.

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Now, how shall I proceed to sneak up on that oily old cuss's blind side?"

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"Well, neither do I; but since the cuss has got us into the spending habit, I'm going to be reckless for once and send him a cable myself, just to let him know I'm calling his bluff."

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It was just the old cuss's luck to have a lot of cash on hand; and he bought them cheap, loaded them with general cargo in New York, and paid a nice dividend on them on their very first voyage under the Blue Star flag.

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Just imagine you're on the bridge of a steamer making up to a dock against a strong flood tide, with stupid mates fore and aft, and rotten lines that won't hold when you get them over the dolphins, and the tide has grabbed you and slammed you into the dock and done five hundred dollars' worth of damage--just feel like that, Matt--" "If I do I'll cuss something scandalous," Matt warned him.

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That big bulldog of his had him treed on a beam, but when we got there, just after dark, the darned cuss was gone, an' the dog was trapped up in a box-stall.

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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 he b'longed to a church."

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Chris Crosshaul was a careless cuss.

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See him weep; hear him cuss between the lines!

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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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"That's a very pretty story, Cassius, and no doubt will make a tremendous hit with the jury, but what were you doing with a loaded revolver in your hand, and why were you so full of vituperation,--I mean, what made you swear so when I--" "You let somebody hit you a wallop on the jaw and bang your head against the wall and dance on your ribs, and you'll cuss worse than I did."

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"I never dreamed there were so many cuss-words in the world," gasped Mr. Yollop, blinking.

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Thinks I, you poor cuss, you must 'a' tried to stop that feller on hossback an' he plunked you.

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I ain't in the habit o' bein' ordered aroun' as if I was jest nobody at all, so when he starts in to cuss me about somethin' a week or so ago, I ups and tells him I'll smash his head if he don't take it back.

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He can't cuss because old Miss Tilly is reading the first act of a play she wrote for Julia Marlowe seven or eight years ago.

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"True, but how will we git the cuss outside?"

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This poor little cuss has a complication of infirmities that have kept him on his back most of his life, never knowing other children, never playing, or anything; and he's got ideas and ways that I never saw the beat of!

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At first it was thought they might trace it by the cuss-words it was uttering, but you see by this time everybody was swearing, so it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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When he'd git bilin' mad, I'd say: 'Now, Mr. Wiggs, why don't you go right out in the woodshed an' swear off that cuss?

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You're such a chatty, entertaining, communicative cuss on first acquaintance, too.

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"Then learn to cuss!" admonished Felice, but her eyes twinkled and the emotional Sculptor Girl's eyes twinkled back through her tears--all of them were for Felice, if that despotic person had only known it.

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"Come on," he said, "you little cuss.

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I learned how to treat a stranger in a strange land fer one thing, an' I learned that even a hoss-thief ain't an ongrateful cuss if you give him a night's lodgin' and a meal or two."

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You 'pear to be a very important cuss fer one who ain't never set foot in Indianny before."

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He's a handsome cuss, but he's as wild as all get out,--drinks, gambles, an' all setch.

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