Vulgar words in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 (Page 1)
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"The cows--" "Damn the cows!
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"Damn 'em--I see 'em!"
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Worlds o' flowers comin' out the passes--" "Damn the flowers!"
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Damn 'em--and I'll see 'em dyin' in the sun--lilies like dried, dead weeds on the sand--that's what they'll be in a couple o' days--he said they was pretty, that fello' back there--" Lying with his head on his arm, he lifted a thumb to point over his shoulder.
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Lilies, jest lilies--damn 'em!"
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The uniforms had climbed to the deck and were chattering in a bastard patois behind him; now and then the smell of the town struck across the smells of the sea and the bush like the flick of a snake's tail.
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Twenty-four hours later, when trains were limping into terminals hours behind time, when call after call was going forth to summon aid for the stricken systems of Missouri, when double-headers, frost-caked wheels churning uselessly, bucked the drifts in a constantly losing battle; when cattle trains were being cut from the schedules, and every wire was loaded with the messages of frantic officials, someone happened to wonder what that big boob Garrity was doing with his snow ploughs.
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"The fellow's an ass," I decided.
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And both of them left letters addressed to Pilleux--enough to damn him in the eyes of authority.
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"Pointed--the little cuss!"
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His wife invariably murmured something about a hussy as Florette's pretty bare legs flashed overhead.
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Florette flung herself upright, kissed her hands, the curtain fell, and the barelegged hussy ran up to the dressing room where her little son waited.
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Leggo o' me an' lemme bus' my bean, damn you!" snarled Howard.
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Damn!
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Damn!
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Damn!"
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Damn!" screamed Madame d'Avala again.
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I kin do it better'n any maid you'd get in this helluva school."
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"Aw, I heard you sayin' damn!
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"Because you heard me screaming 'damn'?"
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"Am, cam, dam, damn, ham, jam, lamb----" The far-away look of genius faded out of the poet's eyes.
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It was said in the _patois_, the bastard Arabic of the Tunisian _bled_.