Vulgar words in The Bent Twig (Page 1)

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damn x 5
poppycock x 1
spunk x 1
            

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With an outbreak of temper, for which he had afterwards apologized to his wife, he had forbidden her ever to mention her damn unseemly nonsense to his children again.

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"I'm going to take off these damn socks and shoes," he announced, sitting down in the edge of a flower-bed.

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It makes me sick to look at her and think of the price she paid for her present damn Olympian serenity."

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Maria Perkins, from the limb where she hung by her knees, responded, "Yup, my Uncle Eben says he likes Judy's spunk."

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"Well, may I be damned!" he said to himself with the beginning of a return of his usual assurance--"the damn little spitfire!"

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He spoke with a sudden heartfelt simplicity, "Damn 'f I _know_, Sylvia."

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"When I last saw you, it was some fool socialistic poppycock about the iniquity of private exploitation of natural resources.

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