Vulgar words in The Crisis — Complete (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
buffoon x 1
country bumpkin x 1
cuss x 4
damn x 2
            
white trash x 7
            

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"Cuss it!" said he, strongly, "if that ain't too bad!

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Poor white trash!

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"Poor white trash, sir!

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Now the galoot knew old Bell was looking over the fence So he says, 'All right,' and he gives Jim the first shot--Jim fetched down the big pear, got his teeth in it, and strolled off to the house, kind of pitiful of the galoot for a, half-witted ass.

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And the wonder in Stephen's mind was that this man who could be a buffoon, whose speech was coarse and whose person unkempt, could prove himself a tower of morality and truth.

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"Then, sir," he continued, "they introduced these damned trotting races; trotting races are for white trash, Mr. Brice."

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"Why," said he, thoughtfully, stroking the white goatee on his chin, "cuss me if that ain't from the speech that country bumpkin, Lincoln, made in June last before the Black Republican convention in Illinois."

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"You mean that this white trash Lincoln may be President?" she exclaimed, seizing his arm.

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The regiment with its freight moves on to make place for a battalion of regulars, amid imprecations and cries of "Hurrah for Jeff Davis!" and "Damn the Dutch!

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"Cuss me if I understand him," said Mr. Worington.

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"You--you white trash!" cried Mammy, bursting with indignation.

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"Honey," said the Colonel,--"I reckon we're just as poor as white trash."

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"Damn you Yankees," he continued, in the same amiable tone, "you've brought us a heap of misfortune.

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"Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket."

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He might have stood for many of the poor white trash farmers she had seen in Kentucky--save for the long black coat.

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