Vulgar words in Under Fire: the story of a squad (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 195 ~ ~ ~
"Ass!" comes the chorus.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 355 ~ ~ ~
Ah, if I were boss, they should damn quick take our places in the trenches, and they'd have to work for a change.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 608 ~ ~ ~
"They damn well did it themselves, I give you my word!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 659 ~ ~ ~
The beastly bastard!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 786 ~ ~ ~
Do it or don't do it--doesn't matter a damn to me."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,165 ~ ~ ~
I shall have my two hands on the counterpane, and they'll do damn well nothing, like things to look at--like toys, what?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,357 ~ ~ ~
"Damn those chaps that got on the midden before us!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,410 ~ ~ ~
Lamuse whispers to me, in a torment of fear and cupidity, "Let's hope she'll catch on, the filthy old slut.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,489 ~ ~ ~
"I know; it's the same tale everywhere and always, but all the same--" "Damn the thieving natives, ah, oui!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,726 ~ ~ ~
And among the idle poilus of the guard-room at the end of the place, under the wing of the shaking and rattling signboard which serves as advertisement of the village, [note 3] a conversation is set up on the subject of this wandering buffoon.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,159 ~ ~ ~
"'Damn,' says the man, 'for I see there's no loft, either.'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,299 ~ ~ ~
"I don't care a damn, but--" "But you wish it was you, eh?" chaffed the invisible neighbor, who concealed in the depth of the hood on which the reservoirs of space were emptying either a supreme indifference or a cruel desire to take a rise out of Volpatte.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,403 ~ ~ ~
As a matter of fact, he was all in a flummox in front of his typewriter, the chump, because he'd forgotten, he said, to press on the capital-letter lever, and so, instead of underlining the heading of his page, he'd damn well scored a line of 8's in the middle of the top.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,484 ~ ~ ~
They looked at me out of the corner of their eyes, and took damn good care not to touch me in passing, for I was still war-mucky.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,561 ~ ~ ~
He'd have done a damn sight better, oui.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,854 ~ ~ ~
To get as elevated as one ought, and to avenge himself on the life of the moment, he would certainly need--damn'ation--a liter and a half, In this place, a liter of red ordinary costs twenty-one sous.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,259 ~ ~ ~
"Same with the kid; when she found herself alongside a simpleton that doesn't tell her to go and play with herself, she ends by wanting to get on his knee.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,425 ~ ~ ~
"Damn!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,556 ~ ~ ~
"Now, blockhead and son of misery, turn my jacket back.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,577 ~ ~ ~
"I've got a Boche drinking-cup," says Barque; "it's flat, so it goes into a side pocket if you like, or it goes very well into a cartridge-pouch, once you've fired the damn things off or pitched them into a bag."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,687 ~ ~ ~
"Ass!" says Poilpot, "if you know how to light it you know how to relight it, seeing that if you light it, it's because it's gone out, and you might say that you're relighting it when you're lighting it."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,812 ~ ~ ~
"Damn," says Fouillade.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,194 ~ ~ ~
So they can destroy your shoulder and damn well knock you down, but they don't spread you about.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,253 ~ ~ ~
"I did not see it."--"Ass!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,310 ~ ~ ~
You could see one of these 380's go into a house at Verdun by the roof, bore through two or three floors, and burst at the bottom, and all the damn lot's got to go aloft; and in the fields whole battalions would scatter and lie flat under the shower like poor little defenseless rabbits.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,676 ~ ~ ~
Damn, your own ticker doesn't know you--it just goes quietly on making little circles."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,701 ~ ~ ~
He goes off, saying to himself, 'Did you see him, the blockhead?'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,748 ~ ~ ~
"'Ah, damn it,' said the captain, 'take it away from my nose, it positively stinks.'"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,116 ~ ~ ~
"I don't care a damn about that, as long as we do get back," said the other; "I want the end quickly, and only that."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,598 ~ ~ ~
"He doesn't care a damn for us, don't fret yourself."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,724 ~ ~ ~
I don't care a damn."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,844 ~ ~ ~
"Ah, damn it, look!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 6,030 ~ ~ ~
Who's the complete ass that's making a light?