Vulgar words in Green Fancy (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
blockhead x 2
boob x 2
country bumpkin x 1
cuss x 3
            
damn x 7
knickers x 2
            

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I want to get a good square peep at a man who has the means to go somewhere else and yet is boob enough to come to this gosh-awful place of his own free will and accord.

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She had confessed to total ignorance regarding the driver of that ramshackle conveyance; to being utterly at sea in the neighbourhood; to having walked like any country bumpkin from the railroad station, lugging an unconscionably heavy bag; and yet, despite all this, she seemed amazingly sure of herself.

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"Telephone for a doctor, Put,--damn' quick!

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Thinks I, you poor cuss, you must 'a' tried to stop that feller on hossback an' he plunked you.

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They are the cleverest, most resourceful people in the world, damn 'em.

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He was instructed to tell Peter to meet the four o'clock train, and the blockhead forgot to give the order.

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The confounded blockhead insists on seeing the colour of my money in advance."

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"If you were a small boy in knickers, O'Dowd, I should say that you were mortally afraid of the place."

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"If I were a small boy," said O'Dowd, "I'd be scairt entirely out of me knickers.

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I ain't in the habit o' bein' ordered aroun' as if I was jest nobody at all, so when he starts in to cuss me about somethin' a week or so ago, I ups and tells him I'll smash his head if he don't take it back.

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"Is it possible that you have never had the pleasure of being transformed into a perfect ass by the magic of a perfect woman, Mr. Barnes?

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He can't cuss because old Miss Tilly is reading the first act of a play she wrote for Julia Marlowe seven or eight years ago.

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"I'll do just as I damn please about running," said Barnes, and there was a deep thrill in his whisper.

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He opened the tank back of the house and let every damn' bit of our gas run out.

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Why, damn it all, Barnes, don't you know who it was that engineered that whole business last night?"

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I was about to say he had old Jones as badly fooled as you--or worse, damn him.

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Being assured that she was just a plain damn' fool and not crazy, he returned and said a great many unpleasant things in the presence of Miss Tilly, who fortunately did not hear them.

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"You have the jewels and--" "Don't be an ass," snapped Sprouse.

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Such words as "slob," "fat-head," "boob" or "you poor nut" never found their way outside the sacred precincts of the theatre.

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