Vulgar words in Children of the Bush (Page 1)
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I don't cares a damn for der bain; but dis is der tird year--und I vas going home dis year--after der gontract--und der gontract yoost commence!"'
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She had been breaking her heart for the great ass all these months.
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"You're allers findin' excuses for blacklegs an' scabs, Mitchell," said Barcoo-Rot, who took Mitchell seriously (and who would have taken a laughing jackass seriously).
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Well, a rush came along just as Campbell got free from his horse, and he went down-stream one side of a snag and his horse the other.
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I don't care a damn for that.
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An' he dies, an' I have ter pay a man ter bury him (an' knock up a sort o' fence round the grave arterwards ter keep the stock out), an' send the buggy agen for a parson, an'--Well, what's a man ter do?
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But, inside a week, he was calling the doctor 'Ol' Pill-Box' behind his back, and making love to one of the nurses.
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Then Tommy said, with that delightful tact which usually characterizes young Tommies: "Well, Mary needn't be so cocky about Harry Dale, anyhow.
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You're a cruel, deceitful, brazen-faced hussy, and he's a heartless, deceiving blackguard."
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Shortly after last New Year Ryan's bull had broken loose and gone astray for two days and nights, breaking into neighbours' paddocks and filling himself with hay and damaging other bulls, and making love by night and hiding in the scrub all day.
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And, coming back into civilized life, these men, who had been well brought up, drop into their old manner and style of speaking as readily as the foulest-mouthed man in a shed or camp--who, amongst his fellows, cannot say three words without an oath--can, when he finds himself in a decent home in the woman-and-girl world, yarn by the hour without letting slip a solitary little damn.
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"Nothing matters much, it seems to me, nothing matters a damn.
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And--well, have you, as a man, ever, with the one woman that you can't have, and no matter at what time or place, felt a sudden mad longing to take her in your arms and kiss her--and damn the world?
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"Damn it all," said Mitchell, sitting up, "I'm getting sentimental."