The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 883   ~   ~   ~

Damn you, Mosely!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 945   ~   ~   ~

No, suh, not by a damn-sight you won't!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,615   ~   ~   ~

"Damn!" exploded Peter.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,326   ~   ~   ~

"Now, have you a presentable pair of gloves, Croesus?--Oh, damn your legs, Champneys!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,474   ~   ~   ~

And now she was facing slow starvation--Oh, damn!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 34   ~   ~   ~

To teach my flock I never miss'd: Kings are by God appointed; And those are damn'd that do resist, And touch the Lord's anointed: And this is law, I will maintain Until my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, I will be Vicar of Bray, sir.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 38   ~   ~   ~

The Church of England's glory, Another face of things was seen, And I became a Tory: Occasional conformists base, I damn'd their moderation, And thought the church in danger was By such prevarication, And this is law, &c. When George in pudding-time came o'er, And moderate men look'd big, sir, I turn'd a cat-in-pan once more, And then became a Whig, sir: And so preferment I procured By our new faith's defender, And always every day abjured The Pope and the pretender.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,384   ~   ~   ~

They were going on in a little thriving posture, when the three unnatural rogues, their own countrymen too, in mere humour, and to insult them, came and bullied them, and told them the island was theirs; that the governor, meaning me, had given them possession of it, and nobody else had any right to it; and, damn them, they should build no houses upon their ground, unless they would pay them rent for them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,079   ~   ~   ~

he no hear you swear, curse, speak the great damn?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 586   ~   ~   ~

"Did you," continued the prisoner's counsel, "ever say, 'Damn her for a black bitch!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,730   ~   ~   ~

Did you ever say, "Damn her for a black bitch; I should be glad to see her go up the ladder and be hanged"?--No, sir, I never did in my life.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,919   ~   ~   ~

I have heard her curse Miss Blandy, and damn her for a bitch, and said she would not stay.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,920   ~   ~   ~

Since this affair happened I heard her say, "Damn her for a black bitch.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,152   ~   ~   ~

He tells you that after Mr. Cranstoun was gone from Henley, in August 1750, he has often heard the prisoner say that she heard music, which portended death in the family, and sometimes thought it might be herself, sometimes her father, because he was so much broken; that he has heard her say death would happen before October; that he has often heard her curse her father, damn him for a rogue and a toothless old dog, within two months of his death and a great while before; that he has told her himself that he thought Mr. Blandy seemed broken, upon which she said she thought so too, and that the music portended his death.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,172   ~   ~   ~

She then calls her witnesses, and the first is Ann James, who tells you she lives at Henley, and used to wash at Mr. Blandy's house; that she remembers that some time before Mr. Blandy's illness there was a difference between the prisoner and Elizabeth Binfield, and that the latter was to go away; and that she has heard Elizabeth Binfield curse the prisoner and damn her for a bitch, and say she would not stay; that since this affair happened she heard her say (speaking of the prisoner), "Damn her for a black bitch; she should be glad to see her go up the ladder and swing."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 244   ~   ~   ~

said to the Virginian commissioners, pleading the cause of learning and religion, "Damn your souls!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,739   ~   ~   ~

They simply don't care a damn about the hero, or about the audience, or anything, and they scarcely pretend to.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,666   ~   ~   ~

He asked: "Damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 144   ~   ~   ~

"You ain't so purty now as you was then: Yer eyes is nothin' but two prospect holes, An' women which are hitched to better men Would hardly for sech glances damn their souls, As Lengthie did.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 703   ~   ~   ~

For me--unread in the occult, I'm fain To damn all mysteries alike as vain, Spurn the obscure and base my faith upon The Revelations of the good St. John.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,123   ~   ~   ~

I defy any jeweller in London to come up to the fineness of these hinges, and delicacy of the carving---" "Pshaw, damn it!" said Douglas, turning away, and addressing some remark to the General, who was provokingly attentive to everything that went on.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,033   ~   ~   ~

She swore like the set, using about one "damn" or one "bloody" to every four cigarettes, of which she smoked, perhaps, fifty a day--including some in taxis.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,679   ~   ~   ~

Next week I may be in heaven or hell or anywhere, or blind for life or without my legs or any damn thing you please.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,960   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the girl!" said G.J.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,079   ~   ~   ~

Her voice came smothered from the cushions: "Damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,265   ~   ~   ~

I shall have all the latest dodges in the sublime and fatal art of make-up, and if any of the Bond Street gang refuse to help me I'll damn well ruin them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,328   ~   ~   ~

There was not a sentiment, however incomprehensible, for which they were not ready to die or to damn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,350   ~   ~   ~

"Damn him!" said Dorian, as he shook himself back into a somewhat normal condition and spat red on the ground.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 587   ~   ~   ~

They're all clever, damn them!" said Steingall, explosively.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,356   ~   ~   ~

When Wessels made a convulsive stab at his ball and luckily achieved good distance, Pollock remarked behind his hand, "A good shot, damn it!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,667   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it!" said Booverman all at once.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,727   ~   ~   ~

[Illustration: Wild-eyed and hilarious, they descended on the clubhouse with the miraculous news] "Damn that sixth hole!" said Booverman, flinging down his club and glaring at Pickings.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,010   ~   ~   ~

Damn him!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,363   ~   ~   ~

But damn that Californian!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,297   ~   ~   ~

"The damn people up there higher than God!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,170   ~   ~   ~

" I don't need a damn thing," he said coldly.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,383   ~   ~   ~

Matter of fact IOm damn sick and sick of you!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 308   ~   ~   ~

Why sure 'tis some comfort that heroes should slay us, If I fall, I would fall by the hand of Aeneas; And who by the Drapier would not rather damn'd be, Than demigoddized by madrigal Namby.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,305   ~   ~   ~

The way every damn thing gets on my nerves, I'd be a hit at a movie, wouldn't I?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,348   ~   ~   ~

Take them empty bottles out of here, Loo, and choke that damn clock with another pillow.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,559   ~   ~   ~

My damn-fool days are over."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,599   ~   ~   ~

I'm damn sick of it all.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,600   ~   ~   ~

Damn sick, if you want to know it."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,911   ~   ~   ~

But, remember, if you wanna drive me out before I'm finished, if you wanna get rid of me a damn sight quicker than any other way, throw me some sob stuff and watch.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,004   ~   ~   ~

You can't, not by a damn sight!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,984   ~   ~   ~

The incident related was a trifle rank for any one to swallow raw, when the same party who had interrupted before sang out, 'That's another damn lie.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,310   ~   ~   ~

And damn the bank and its carmine ducks."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,681   ~   ~   ~

_I_ don't care a damn if you load the schooner up to her maintop with sky-pilots and their dowdy women-kind.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 202   ~   ~   ~

Indeed so full has our Western world become of worry that a harsh and complaining note is far more prevalent than we are willing to believe, which is expressed in a rude motto to be found hung on many an office, bedroom, library, study, and laboratory wall which reads: _Life is one Damn Thing after Another_ [Note: this is outlined in a block.]

~   ~   ~   Sentence 584   ~   ~   ~

"Damn those workmen!" he exclaimed, with sudden irritation, as a louder chattering of pneumatic riveters from the new building all at once clattered in at the window.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 853   ~   ~   ~

"But first, with your permission, I'll point out a few of its main features, and--" "Damn the main features!" cried Flint.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,169   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the luck!" he ejaculated, pacing the office floor, his fists knotted.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,591   ~   ~   ~

"Wally, at last, damn him!" he muttered.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,660   ~   ~   ~

"Damn!" he muttered, under his breath, choosing another stick and glancing with real irritation at Catherine's lithe, splendidly poised figure already some distance down the slope.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,979   ~   ~   ~

_I_ don't give--damn!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,597   ~   ~   ~

"Damn him!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,629   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it, it can't!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,793   ~   ~   ~

"If I didn't need your billion, old man," his secret thought was, as he eyed Flint with pretended humility, "you might go to Hell, for all of me--you and your daughter with you, damn you both!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,501   ~   ~   ~

Damn you!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,836   ~   ~   ~

Damn it, you can't speak to me Flint, as if I were one of the people!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,888   ~   ~   ~

Damn it all, I say, _can't_ you keep things quiet?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,955   ~   ~   ~

They're submissive as so many rabbits, sir, and--" "Damn you, shut up!" roared Flint.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,232   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the weather!" he snarled, his gold teeth glinting.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,577   ~   ~   ~

The floor's a bit damp and cold to sit on, and I want a drink damn bad!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,586   ~   ~   ~

Caught us napping, damn them, after all!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,597   ~   ~   ~

Damn you, don't include _me_ in your blame!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,696   ~   ~   ~

Damn it to Hell--the world, I say!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,018   ~   ~   ~

He was guarded in what he said about Mr. Marlin, yet Charley saw that he was trying to damn the forester by faint praise.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,282   ~   ~   ~

Damn you!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 711   ~   ~   ~

To acquire popularity,... he must lose his money at bluff and euchre without a sigh, and damn up hill and down the sober church-going man, as an out-and-out _blue_.--_The Parthenon, Union Coll._, 1851, p. 6.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 278   ~   ~   ~

The men by whom I was and who were lifting the body, roared into the railings:-- "We'll be coming back for you, damn you."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 459   ~   ~   ~

The exclamations are for the most part in Cree or bad French, and as I crowd in looking for some local terms all that I hear intelligible is, "That is damn close, I think me."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,112   ~   ~   ~

It is not until the idea of the play-test occurs to him that his doubts are once more aroused; and then they return with redoubled force:-- "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 128   ~   ~   ~

Freemont replied, "Damn it, look.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,882   ~   ~   ~

Excited by just a glass too much, he stretched himself on a settee after dinner, sunk in physical and mental ecstasy, which Madame Marneffe wrought to the highest pitch by coming to sit down by him--airy, scented, pretty enough to damn an angel.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,628   ~   ~   ~

"And why are there no trenches?" said a wrongheaded man; "why, it's because they don't care a damn for soldiers' lives."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,442   ~   ~   ~

He talks and talks, and concludes by saying that after all _he_ doesn't care a damn as long as they let him alone.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 420   ~   ~   ~

To the whole human race he seems to utter the terrible words he puts into the mouth of God: "I to such blockheads set my wit, And damn you all--Go, go, you're bit!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,788   ~   ~   ~

What a damn'd imposthume is a woman's will!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,581   ~   ~   ~

Devil Brachiano, thou art damn'd.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,719   ~   ~   ~

I did tell you I would reveal a secret: Isabella, The Duke of Florence' sister, was empoisone'd By a fum'd picture; and Camillo's neck Was broke by damn'd Flamineo, the mischance Laid on a vaulting-horse.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 181   ~   ~   ~

And now, when the old tyrant is dead, and I come home meaning--so help me!--to straighten things out and make friends--come home, to the poverty you pretend not to notice, though it stares you in the face from every wall--come home, only asking to make the best of of it, live on good terms with my fellows, and be happy for the first time in my life--damn them, they won't fling me a kind look!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 375   ~   ~   ~

"Do you know you have accused that young man of a villainy which must damn him for life?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,726   ~   ~   ~

In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,874   ~   ~   ~

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.

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Why, damn it, sir, I'd like to have every one of them, especially Jeff Whitworth, at the end of a halter and feed him a raw mule, hoof and ears.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,543   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you, what's that to you?" snarled the man as he sprang up from beside the Gouverneur and leaned, crouched and panting, against the bars of the cage in which the three of us were inclosed.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,552   ~   ~   ~

Did you get to her in time to save her or--" "Yes, good God, I did and I had--damn you, now I'll have to kill you for getting words out of me that all the lawyers have tried to make me say all this time," and with the oath and a snarl the man made a lunge at my Gouverneur Faulkner with something keen and shining that he had drawn from the top of his coarse boot.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,856   ~   ~   ~

Be sure and repeat slowly all he says, damn him!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,246   ~   ~   ~

"Sir," said the mighty warrior, "dislodge those damn pests in the chimney, without delay."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,480   ~   ~   ~

"Now, if that Maldetto Saint Antonio don't help us, may he feel the coals of hell yet; damn him and his pigs too; if he has the courage to do his duty, all will be well; but he is a cowardly wretch, he cares for nobody, and will not help those who call upon him in trouble.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,578   ~   ~   ~

Damn my old buttons!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 333   ~   ~   ~

Religion, learning, birth and manners, too, All that distinguishes a man from you, Pray damn at will: all shining virtues gain An added luster from a rogue's disdain.

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THERSITES So, in the Sunday papers _you_, Del Mar, Damn, all great Englishmen in English speech?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,398   ~   ~   ~

To save your scoundrel client from a cell As loth to swallow him as he to swell Its sum of meals insurgent (it decries All wars intestinal with meats that rise) You turn your scurril tongue against the press And damn the agency you ought to bless.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,481   ~   ~   ~

Nay, every editorial ass, To prove they never come to pass Will damn his soul eternally, Although in his own journal he May read the printed shame.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,667   ~   ~   ~

You damn all witnesses, all jurors too (And swear at the attorneys, I suppose, But _that's_ commendable) "till all is blue"; And what it's all about, the good Lord knows, Not you; but all the hotter, fiercer glows Your wrath for that--as dogs the louder howl With only moonshine to incite their rage, And bears with more ferocious menace growl, Even when their food is flung into the cage.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,742   ~   ~   ~

But damn you!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,292   ~   ~   ~

My astonishment was very great, and I said that "though I have known Baroness B. quite well since I met her in Paris and Monte Carlo and...." (_five lines scratched out from manuscript_).... "Quit your damn jokes for a while," he exclaimed.

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