Vulgar words in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 (Page 1)
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Damn his uncle's wines, and his mushrooms, and his soft-footed servants, and his house of nuances and evasions, and his white grapes, large and outwardly perfect, and inwardly sentimental as the generation whose especial fruit they were.
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Damn!"
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But I'm a ghastly jackass--I didn't get any fun out of it at all--because I really didn't even see her.
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Damn fool!
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Don't care if you do hate swearing--damn fools are damn fools, and there's an end to it.
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It's because I know what a heavenly brick you are that I could have killed that statistical jackass for bothering you; but I'll forgive him, since you say that it's all right.
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"Trouble is," said Perry, who had just banged his hair with Bailey's comb and was tying an orange tie round it to get the effect of Julius Caesar, "that you fellas can't sing worth a damn.
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At the sound of a footfall or the soft creak of a plank I felt that I might lose all control and leap up and brain him with the heavy bottle in my grasp.
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And to-night, right now, he's lying in Bellevue, both legs broken, skull fractured, and not a damn cent in the world except insurance enough to bury him.
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When a snag caught her snowshoe and tripped her, there was hysteria in her cry of resentment.
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Damn' smart, but not too smart for me, you woman!"
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Shoot, damn you, and have it done with.
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I didn't realize the bigness of the thing, didn't appreciate that what I wanted to do didn't count for a damn.
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"'Yes,' sez Rathbone, slowly, as if he was thinkin'--'yes, it's a damn shame!'"
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"And the other two gobs who wasn't as sober as Rathbone, they sez, too, 'Yes, it's a damn shame.'"