Vulgar words in The Long Shadow (Page 1)
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Afterward, when he was loping steadily down the coulée bottom with his fresh-made tracks pointing the way before him, he broke out irrelevantly and viciously: "A real, old range rider yuh can bank on, one way or the other--but damn a pilgrim!"
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"But I've got a heap more respect for him than I have for you, yuh damn', low-down brute.
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The Pilgrim--" "_Damn_ the Pilgrim!
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He runs about twelve hundred woollies, and is about as unpolite a cuss as I ever met up with.
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Come on--don't be a damn' chubber!
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"And then--I'd likely get married, and raise a bunch uh boys to carry on the business when I got old and fat, and too damn' lazy to ride off a walk."
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"For a steady-minded cuss, yuh do have surprising streaks, Dilly, and that's a fact.
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"I wisht he'd _do_ something I could lay my finger on--damn him," he reflected.
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"Damn him, he pulled a knife on me!" he cried defensively.
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If yuh don't, yuh better investigate 'em a lot--because I don't know a damn' thing about the breed, and we're liable to need 'em bad."
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I kinda wish," he added pensively, "we _hadn't_ got so damn' decent and law-abiding.
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After a while he said irritably that a man was a damn fool to go off like that and leave a wife--and family--behind him.
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"Damn these nesters and their fences!"
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"Damn him, I wisht I'd chased him off long ago.
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A quarter of a mile farther, he would "beat his damn' head off," and, as if those were not deaths sufficient, he was after that determined to "take him by the heels and snap his measly head off like yuh would a grass snake!"
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"Charitable old cuss--that same Brown!
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Do yuh know, Dilly, the range is just going t' be a death-trap, with all them damn fences for the stock to drift into.
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If it was me, and me alone, I'd pull stakes and hunt another range--and I'd go gunning after the first damn' man that stuck up a post to hang barb-wire on.
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While we are being 'broken' on the wheel of evolutionary change, he will make his millions--" "Damn him!" gritted Billy savagely, under his breath.
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I know old Brown fine; he'll hold yuh right down t' what yuh turn over, and he'll tally so close he'll want to dock yuh if a critter's shy one horn--damn him.
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He rounded up the last of the Double-Cranks, drove them to Brown's place and turned them over, with the home ranch, the horses, and camp outfit--"made a clean sweep uh the whole damn', hoodooed works," was the way he afterward put it.
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So I reckon all I got to do after I pay the boys is take m' little old twenty-three plunks, and my hosses--if I can't sell 'em right off--and pull out for God-knows-where-and-I-don't-care- a-damn!"
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Right now, I'm going t' give a new one--one that yuh can easy name and do what yuh damn' please about."
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I hope yuh come through better than yuh did with the Double-Crank--but I guess it'll be some considerable time before the towns and the gentle farmer (damn him!)
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are crowded to the wall by your damn' Progress."
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"If I were a marrying man, I am not sure but I should make love to Flora--h-m-m!--this 'Bachelor's Complaint' here--have you read it, William?