The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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MR. H. But then my name--damn my name.

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SECOND GENTLEMAN Damn him, I will affront him.

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damn it, I said, augment it.

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Canon Ainger gives "Damn"] * * * * * COMMENDATORY VERSES Page 61.

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The third line recalls Pope's line-- See Cromwell damn'd to everlasting fame.

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Writing to Moxon in 1833 he says, "I wish you would omit 'by the Author of Elia' now, in advertising that damn'd 'Devil's Wedding.'"

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I could not resist so facile and moderate demand: so scribbled out another, omitting sundry things, such as the witch story, about half the forest scene (which is too leisurely for _story_), and transposing that damn'd soliloquy about England getting drunk, which like its reciter stupidly stood alone nothing prevenient, or antevenient, and cleared away a good deal besides ...

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In 1802 he said "(_dashing his glass down_) Pshaw, damn these acorn cups, they would not drench a fairy.

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The quantity of friends we had in the house my brother and I being in Public Offices &c. was astonishing--but they yielded at length to a few hisses--"a hundred hisses--damn the word, I write it like kisses--how different--a hundred hisses outweigh 1000 claps.

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Nor was thy labour'd drama damn'd or hiss'd, 20 But with a kind civility dismiss'd; With such good manners, as the Wife[17] did use, Who, not accepting, did but just refuse.

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All torments of the damn'd we find In only thee, O Jealousy!

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All that are writing now he would disown, But then he must except--even all the town; All choleric, losing gamesters, who, in spite, Will damn to-day, because they lost last night; All servants, whom their mistress' scorn upbraids; All maudlin lovers, and all slighted maids; All who are out of humour, all severe; All that want wit, or hope to find it here.

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As for the coffee wits, he says not much; Their proper business is to damn the Dutch: 20 For the great dons of wit-- Phoebus gives them full privilege alone, To damn all others, and cry up their own.

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Then damn not, but indulge his rude essays; Encourage him, and bloat him up with praise, That he may get more bulk before he dies: He's not yet fed enough for sacrifice.

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Next summer, Nostradamus tells, they say, That all the critics shall be shipp'd away, And not enow be left to damn a play.

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Now, should it fail (as Heaven avert our fear), Damn it in silence, lest the world should hear.

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If, notwithstanding all that we can say, You needs will have your penn'orths of the play, And come resolved to damn, because you pay, Record it, in memorial of the fact, The first play buried since the woollen act.

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When Greece and Rome have smiled upon this birth, You can but damn for one poor spot of earth: And when your children find your judgment such, They'll scorn their sires, and wish themselves born Dutch; Each haughty poet will infer, with ease, How much his wit must underwrite to please.

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POETS, like lawful monarchs, ruled the stage, Till critics, like damn'd Whigs, debauch'd our age.

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But after he's once saved, to make amends, In each succeeding health they damn his friends: So God begins, but still the Devil ends.

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8 When men will, needlessly, their freedom barter For lawless power, sometimes they catch a Tartar; There's a damn'd word that rhymes to this call'd Charter.

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But for the pit confounders, let 'em go, And find as little mercy as they show: The Actors thus, and thus thy Poets pray; For every critic saved, thou damn'st a play.

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The Poet has one disadvantage more, That if his play be dull, he's damn'd all o'er, Not only a damn'd blockhead, but damn'd poor.

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Yet worse, their brother poets damn the play, And roar the loudest, though they never pay.

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To live uprightly, then, is sure the best, 850 To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.

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I should be loath to lay you on a bier; And though there lives no pothecary near, I dare for once prescribe for your disease, And save long bills, and a damn'd doctor's fees.

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Yet (lest surprised, unknowing what to say, 100 Thou damn thyself) we give thee farther day: A year is thine to wander at thy will, And learn from others, if thou want'st the skill.

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Will it give you pleasure in after years to think of her life embittered--of _his_ life embittered, too, by a piece of gossip, woven out of a tissue of half-truths--that will damn her--as half-truths do?"

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"If one is guiltless one does not fear the truth," he muttered slowly, "nor does virtue fear a lie--but a half-truth will damn even the innocent, Mrs. Hammond."

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Damn that Kentuckian!"

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'Damn the post-office!' yelled Mr. Farmiloe, alone with his errand-boy, and shaking his fist in the air.

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I say--_damn_ the post-office.'

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And yet a few, I'm sorry to own, Made side-remarks in an undertone, Like those we hear, when, nowadays, Good-natured friends, with seeming praise, Contrive to damn.

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Damn your stony heart!"

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"A regular damn dude," he was saying to himself.

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"What a damn fool I've been!"

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With a survey of Arthur's fashionable attire, "I should say he might do fairly well in a gent's furnishing store in one of those damn cities."

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"The boys say," growled Waugh to Howells, "that he acts like one of them damn spying dude sons proprietors sometimes puts in among the men to learn how to work 'em harder for less.

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"The damn fool!" he fumed.

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Already I've had a thousand damn-fool ideas knocked out of my head."

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"I've felt like a damn fool ever since I began to face that gaping gang."

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What can a wise man, who insists on showing that he's wise, expect in a world of damn fools?"

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As for the girl, she's got a showy streak in her--she's your regular American woman of nowadays--the kind of daughter your sort of mother and my sort of damn-fool father breed up.

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_N final_ preceded by _m_, is silent; as in _hymn, solemn, column, damn, condemn, autumn_.

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O this would make a learned and liberal soul To rive his stainéd quill up to the back, And damn his long-watched labours to the fire-- Things that were born when none, but the still night And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes; Were not his own free merit a more crown, Unto his travails than their reeling claps.

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but were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged; And so obliging that he ne'er obliged; Like _Cato_,[142] give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars[143] every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise-- Who but must laugh if such a man there be?

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A moiety of the last-mentioned--dirty, besotted, ragged creatures--had a glare in their eyes which made one shudder to look at them, and, while spasmodically twirling their billies or clenching their fists, talked wildly of making one to "bust up the damn banks", or to drive all the present squatters out of the country and put the people on the land--clearly showing that, because they had failed for one reason or another, it had maddened them to see others succeed.

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"By damn, pigs was up last Toosday!

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It was not the poor food and the filthy way of preparing it that worried me, or that Mr M'Swat used "damn" on an average twice in five minutes when conversing, or that the children for ever nagged about my father's poverty and tormented me in a thousand other ways--it was the dead monotony that was killing me.

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I was pronounced too ill to act as scribe; Lizer was suggested, and then Jimmy, but M'Swat settled the matter thus: "Sure, damn it!

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Sure, damn it, wot's the good er bein' alive if we can't help each other sometimes.

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I don't mind how much I help a person if they have a little gratitood, but, damn it, I can't abear ingratitood."

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The author seems to have apprehended, and experienced, some opposition on account of this second name; and although he deprecates, in the epilogue, the idea of its being a party play, or written to gratify the Puritans with satire at the expense of the Catholics;[17] yet he complains, in the dedication, of the number of its enemies, who came prepared to damn it on account of the title.

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To damn, at once, the poet and his play: But why was your rage just at that time shown, When what the author writ was all his own?

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"Damn you, sir!" yelled Sir Samuel back to him.

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"Damn all the war!" she wrote; and again: "War is surely more hellish than hell could be!"

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Damn priests!

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"Damn!" said Mr. Lewisham.

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"Oh!--_damn_!"

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"Oh, _damn_ Miss Heydinger!" said Lewisham, and suddenly, abruptly, uncivilly, he turned away from Parkson at the end of the street and began walking away southward, leaving Parkson in mid-sentence at the crossing.

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"Damn that infernal hurdy-gurdy!" he whispered.

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Then he heard Chaffery's voices and whispered a soft "damn!" to himself.

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For a time the portmanteau refused to emerge, and he marred his stern resolution by a half audible "Come here--damn you!"

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'I don't care a damn for that sort of tucker,' he said, as though he despised potatoes from the bottom of his heart.

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"I ain't going to have any of this damn sentimental nonsense here, sir," old Osborne cried out at the end of the interview.

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Let us damn with faint praise Bishop Butler, in whom many atoms combined To form that remarkable structure which it pleased him to call his mind.

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Damn it, those Brulls were all men, anyhow!...

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"Damn the liars!" cried Rafael hotly.

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All this misery, all that damn thing over there"--he waved his paw at the darkening hills beyond which was a great hostile army--"the sight of all these refugees spilt out of their cities and homes as though a great hand had tipped up the earth, is beginning to tell on us, my lads.

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They didn't care a damn for old Von Kluck and all his hordes.

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"Serve him damn well right!" said a sergeant to whom I had been talking.

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One of them, a most buxom and jolly soul, who, as she confided to me, "didn't care a damn," had established friendly relations with a naval lieutenant, and I had great trouble in dragging her away from his engaging conversation.

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Of course our Government had been asleep as usual, and didn't care a damn.

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"Make a move, damn you,"--one of the revolvers had returned to its holster, the free hand was upon the bolt,--"and I'll drop you, every cursed one of you, in your tracks.

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"Damn you, O'Reilly," he challenged, "you're free with your tongue."

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Damn reformation, teetotality, the earnest, and the strenuous.

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Was it _his_ fault that his officers were fools and his men damn-fools?

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Oh, damn it!

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The white man would say, 'I'm goin' to vote as I damn please.'

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The Yankees say, 'Let the damn fool alone--here we are tryin' to free her and she ain't got no sense.'

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'Why, I can see all over and whip all over, and that's as much as any damn man can do.'

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They told the one that asked that it was a damn nigger that owed money back in Louisiana and got smart and run away without paying up.

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Yet in one or another of his "powerful" articles we seem to have seen something like "Damn the Kaiser" and "To Hell with Hindenburg."

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The Spirit of God then strikes in, and shows that he has no good thing in him by nature; then he sees that he is altogether gone out of the way, that he is altogether become abominable, and the poor creature is made to lie down at the foot of the throne of God and to acknowledge that God would be just to damn him, just to cut him off, tho he never had committed one actual sin in his life.

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But before you can speak peace to your heart you must be brought to see that God may damn you for the best prayer you ever put up; you must be brought to see that all your duties--all your righteousness--as the prophet elegantly expresses it--put them all together, are so far from recommending you to God, are so far from being any motive and inducement to God to have mercy on your poor soul, that He will see them to be filthy rags, a menstruous cloth--that God hates them, and can not away with them, if you bring them to Him in order to recommend you to His favor.

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After we are renewed, yet we are renewed but in part, indwelling sin continues in us, there is a mixture of corruption in every one of our duties, so that after we are converted, were Jesus Christ only to accept us according to our works, our works would damn us, for we can not put up a prayer but it is far from that perfection which the moral law requireth.

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And can you now say from your heart Lord, thou mayest justly damn me for the best duties that ever I did perform?

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The artist turned at the mocking, suggestive tone and answered savagely, "I suppose you have got to know, damn you!

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If you are, of course--" "Damn Mrs. Taine's portrait!" ejaculated the man, rising hurriedly.

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If twenty years acquaintance goes for anything, she's one of God's own kind, and I don't care a damn what her history is.

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Damn me, but I'm game for a good time yet!

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You're--wrong--damn you--you're wrong.

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I'm glad--you love him--damn glad--because--I know that after--what he's seen of me--even if he didn't love--that mountain--girl, he wouldn't wipe--his feet on you.

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"Damn!" said the Celestial eloquently; and retired to his kitchen to ruminate upon the ways of "Mellican women."

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They were all there, the pretty maids and wrinkled matrons, the young rakes of twenty, ready for a frolic, and the old rakes of thirty too weary to do much more than go to the theatre and cry out, "Damme, this is a damn'd play."

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Here was a chance, therefore, to damn the latter writer, and accordingly the malcontents repaired to the theatre, hissed the performance roundly, and then went home with the comfortable reflection that they had gotten their revenge.

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"On the first day of 'The Provok'd Husband,'" says the Poet Laureate, "ten years after the 'Non-juror' had appear'd, a powerful party, not having the fear of publick offence or private injury before their eyes, appeared most impetuously concerned for the demolition of it; in which they so far succeeded that for some time I gave it up for lost; and to follow their blows, in the publick papers of the next day it was attack'd and triumph'd over as a dead and damn'd piece: a swinging criticism was made upon it in general invective terms, for they disdain'd to trouble the world with particulars; their sentence, it seems, was proof enough of its deserving the fate it had met with.

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