The 17,250 occurrences of damn
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Everybody was satisfied--Hogan, Simpkins, Asche, McGurk, even Delany, because the fleas upon his back were satisfied and he was planning ultimately to get rid of the whole damn tangle by having the indictment quietly dismissed when nobody was looking, by his friend O'Brien, to whom the case had been sent for trial.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 571 ~ ~ ~
He began to wish he had never touched the damn case.
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Experience is the only teacher, which, in the language of Amos Eno, who left two millions to the Institute of Mechanics and Tradesmen, is "worth a damn."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,461 ~ ~ ~
When it was represented to him that Caput might die, fade away entirely, in which case the office would be left without any indictment clerk, the Honorable Peckham profanely declared that he didn't care a damn.
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And I'll tell you something, Peckham--which is that the human heart is a damn sight bigger than the human conscience."
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"No use goin' back right off and getting stuck onto another damn case!
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"You're nothin' but a damn fool!"
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"I don't care a damn about Brown!" he assured them.
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Aymen... Now I'll go an' 'av' a look at our Bill's drains, damn 'is eyes!
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What pity is it, that an unfortunate, as well as a false step, should damn a woman's fame!
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"Here, orderly, take the rein; quick now, damn you!"
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Damn you, are you totally devoid of all sense of personal honor?"
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"Damn you!" he yelled.
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Damn the fellow!" thought Mr. Krause.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,221 ~ ~ ~
Be thou a Spirit of Health, or Goblin damn'd; Bring with thee Airs from Heav'n, or Blasts from Hell; Be thy Events wicked or charitable; Thou com'st in such a questionable Shape That I will speak to thee.
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Thus_ Aristotle's _Soul of old that was, May now be damn'd to animate an Ass; Or in this very House, for ought we know, Is doing painful Penance in some Beau.
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Here, while seeing in Addison a man _Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to live, converse, and write with ease,_ he said that should he, jealous of his own supremacy, damn with faint praise, as one _Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint the fault and hesitate dislike, Who when two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of both, but likes the worse the best: Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sits attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise: And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who would not laugh if such a man there be?
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you damn'd confounded Dog, I am to rise and speak the Epilogue.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 26,842 ~ ~ ~
The brainless Stripling,--who, expell'd to Town, Damn'd the stiff College and pedantick Gown, Aw'd by thy Name, is dumb, and thrice a Week Spells uncouth _Latin,_ and pretends to _Greek._ A sauntring Tribe!
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Him the damn'd doctor and his friends immured; They bled, they cupp'd, they purged, in short they cured, Whereat the gentleman began to stare-- 'My friends!' he cry'd: 'pox take you for your care!
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Away with your whore, A plague o' your whore, you damn'd Rogue, Now ye are cur'd and well; must ye be clicketing?
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Damn it, then, tell me!
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~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,690 ~ ~ ~
After Johnson's death she published a volume of her reminiscences of him, which may be allowed to have been worthy neither of him nor of her, and which was ridiculed by Peter Pindar in "A Town Eclogue," in which the rivals Bozzy and Piozzi, on Virgil's principle--_Alternis dicetis, amant alterna Camaenae_--relate in turn anecdotes of Johnson's way of life, his witty sayings, &c., &c. Sir John Hawkins, as judge of the contest, gives neither a prize; tells the lady, "Sam's Life, dear ma'am, will only _damn your own_;" calls the gentleman "a chattering magpie;" and-- Then to their pens and paper rush'd the twain, To kill the mangled RAMBLER o'er again.]
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'It's a damn-sight too near to be pleasant.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,161 ~ ~ ~
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 rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts, that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, others teach to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools; by flatt'rers besieg'd; And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd.
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Damn the cold!"
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"Damn the snow!" he said.
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Damn you, Marshey, if your old farm was worth taking I'd have you out in this snow, you old scamp!"
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Now I say, damn the people anywhere in the whole country that won't pay their debts from pioneer to pioneer; that lets us fight the wilderness barehanded and die fighting; that won't risk--" A grey film dropped down over the world, a leaden shroud that was not the coming of twilight.
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But I said to myself I'll keep out an eye; maybe it's on the level--any damn thing can happen.'
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_Sav._ Would all his damn'd tribe were as tender hearted.
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Now will you speak, damn you!"
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"Where is it, damn you?" said Gunn, from between his teeth.
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Now will you speak, damn you!"
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"Where is it, damn you?" said Gunn, from between his teeth.
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"Damn him, I tried to tell him!" groaned Bill, his face hidden behind his palms.
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"No, damn 'em, they won't let me near him," said Bill, ashamed of his violence.
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"If my company doesn't damn you beyond all hope, you may get out of the scrape.
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The kid said: 'None of your damn business!'
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"Oh, damn you and your Committee!" gritted Bill Wilson, out of the bitterness that filled him.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 689 ~ ~ ~
"He'll go and get his light put out--and he won't help Jack a damn bit," he told himself miserably, and went in.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 762 ~ ~ ~
"Oh, damn the Committee!--as Bill remarked after the trial."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 770 ~ ~ ~
"I wouldn't give two pesos for this buckskin, but we're going to add horse-stealing to our other crimes; and while it's all right to damn the Committee, it's just as well to do it at a distance, just now, old man."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,077 ~ ~ ~
I know to an inch just where it will land--oh, damn the luck--It was some of those fellows camped by the orchard, and when I find out which--" "Keep your head on, anyway," advised Dade more equably.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,296 ~ ~ ~
"Damn!" he said viciously, as if his vocabulary was so inadequate to voice his emotions that the one expletive would do as well as any to cover his meaning; and sat down heavily in a cushioned chair.
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Take any odds they offer, damn 'em.
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Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd-- Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd!
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The _Wild Gallant_ has quite played out his game; He's married now, and that will make him tame; Or if you think marriage will not reclaim him, The critics swear they'll damn him, but they'll tame him.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,070 ~ ~ ~
All that are writing now he would disown, But then he must except--even all the town; All cholerick, 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, or severe; All, that want wit, or hope to find it here.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,559 ~ ~ ~
As for the coffee-wits, he says not much; Their proper business is to damn the Dutch: 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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Those who write not, and yet all writers nick, Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick.
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sweet sir,--damn'd sir!--I have but one word more to say to you.
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"Damn!" ejaculated the latter, heedless of the strict fines imposed by my Lord Protector on unseemly language.
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I know that Lambert is dangerous ... damn him!
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..." "Let me go!" gasped Sir Marmaduke, whom the icy fear of imminent discovery gripped more effectually even than did the village blacksmith's muscular fingers, "let me go ... damn you!"
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"Give me that apple, damn yeh!" he cried.
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"Why, damn me," said he, looking again at his book, "it _is_ a 'T.'
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"I hope God will damn him," I said; and am ashamed of it now.
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"Bill, you can't bluff worth a damn!"
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"Bill," and Waring's voice was softly insulting, "you can't bluff worth a damn."
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As I told you before, you can't bluff worth a damn."
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Afterward, when he was loping steadily down the coulée bottom with his fresh-made tracks pointing the way before him, he broke out irrelevantly and viciously: "A real, old range rider yuh can bank on, one way or the other--but damn a pilgrim!"
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"But I've got a heap more respect for him than I have for you, yuh damn', low-down brute.
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The Pilgrim--" "_Damn_ the Pilgrim!
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Come on--don't be a damn' chubber!
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"And then--I'd likely get married, and raise a bunch uh boys to carry on the business when I got old and fat, and too damn' lazy to ride off a walk."
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"I wisht he'd _do_ something I could lay my finger on--damn him," he reflected.
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"Damn him, he pulled a knife on me!" he cried defensively.
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If yuh don't, yuh better investigate 'em a lot--because I don't know a damn' thing about the breed, and we're liable to need 'em bad."
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I kinda wish," he added pensively, "we _hadn't_ got so damn' decent and law-abiding.
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After a while he said irritably that a man was a damn fool to go off like that and leave a wife--and family--behind him.
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"Damn these nesters and their fences!"
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"Damn him, I wisht I'd chased him off long ago.
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A quarter of a mile farther, he would "beat his damn' head off," and, as if those were not deaths sufficient, he was after that determined to "take him by the heels and snap his measly head off like yuh would a grass snake!"
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Do yuh know, Dilly, the range is just going t' be a death-trap, with all them damn fences for the stock to drift into.
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If it was me, and me alone, I'd pull stakes and hunt another range--and I'd go gunning after the first damn' man that stuck up a post to hang barb-wire on.
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While we are being 'broken' on the wheel of evolutionary change, he will make his millions--" "Damn him!" gritted Billy savagely, under his breath.
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I know old Brown fine; he'll hold yuh right down t' what yuh turn over, and he'll tally so close he'll want to dock yuh if a critter's shy one horn--damn him.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,455 ~ ~ ~
He rounded up the last of the Double-Cranks, drove them to Brown's place and turned them over, with the home ranch, the horses, and camp outfit--"made a clean sweep uh the whole damn', hoodooed works," was the way he afterward put it.
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So I reckon all I got to do after I pay the boys is take m' little old twenty-three plunks, and my hosses--if I can't sell 'em right off--and pull out for God-knows-where-and-I-don't-care- a-damn!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,570 ~ ~ ~
Right now, I'm going t' give a new one--one that yuh can easy name and do what yuh damn' please about."
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I hope yuh come through better than yuh did with the Double-Crank--but I guess it'll be some considerable time before the towns and the gentle farmer (damn him!)
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are crowded to the wall by your damn' Progress."
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Damn!
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"What's the matter with the damn thing?
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"But damn me!
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"But if you want my honest opinion on the subject, it's damn hot."
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Your work is good, Red, but it's a little lumpy in spots; them two left feet bother you; you're good in your place, but you'd better build a fence around the place--damn the luck!
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This is no child's play, and I don't care a damn what the old lady next door thinks."
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_The wise, and many headed_ Bench, _that sits Upon the Life, and Death of_ Playes, _and_ Wits, (_Composed of_ Gamester, Captain, Knight, Knight's man, Lady, _or_ Pusill, _that wears mask or fan_, Velvet, _or_ Taffata _cap, rank'd in the dark With the shops_ Foreman, _or some such_ brave spark, _That may judge for his_ six-pence_) had, before They saw it half, damn'd thy whole Play, and more, Their motives were, since it had not to doe With vices, which they look'd for, and came to.
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Damn these rotten limbs.
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An' damn me fellows, if that little pocket wasn't all torn to pieces.
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"All same like damn monkey, _Sensei_," he replied.
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Damn me, I love thy gorgeous self, thy beauteous body; thou my ward to have and to hold.
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One was saying: "It's gone, the damn knaves have secreted it; we must have a light, Anson, or the horde above stair will be upon us, and all the fires of hell could hardly show us out of this dungeon."
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