Vulgar words in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Page 1)

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ass x 2
damn x 1
hussy x 2
jackass x 2
snag x 1
            

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Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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"Perfect jackass-yes, and it ain't going too far to say he is a pudd'nhead.

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"You's jealous, Roxy, dat's what's de matter wid you, you hussy-yah-yah-yah!

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En he's al'ays callin' me nigger wench, en hussy, en all dem mean names, when I's doin' de very bes' I kin.

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"Damn the old woman!"

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She passed many a snag whose "break" could have told her a thing to break her heart, for it showed a current moving in the same direction that the boat was going; but her thoughts were elsewhere, and she did not notice.

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I think there is nothing more pathetic than to see one of these poor old childless couples taking a menagerie of yelping little worthless dogs to their hearts; and then adding some cursing and squawking parrots and a jackass-voiced macaw; and next a couple of hundred screeching songbirds, and presently some fetid guinea pigs and rabbits, and a howling colony of cats.

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It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental.

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