Vulgar words in Mr. Scraggs (Page 1)

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cuss x 9
jackass x 1
            

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If we was going to do the thing, we wanted to do it; and so forth and so forth, till we had him saddled and bridled and standing in the corner of the corral as peaceful as a soldier's monument, for he was the best-hearted old cuss under his crust that ever lived.

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Nervous cuss--oh, awful!

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"Keno Jim and me looked after the lady whilest Hadds pranced around the Major and cussed scientific cuss-words.

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Well, you are an allotropic modification of the genus jackass, like Hadds says of the Major.'

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Them scientific cuss-words cut him to the heart.

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"'Don't abuse the poor cuss,' says I.

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I don't care a cuss whether you believe me or not, dear friends and brothers, but I want to tell you right now that I cleared the creek with something like one hundred and eighty feet to spare!

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The cuss o' Crom'll lie heavy on ye for mistreatin' a poor, lone widdy woman!'

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"'I dunno, Zeke,' says he, 'honest to Gosh'--Pete never used a cuss-word--'honest to Gosh,' says he; 'I dunno.

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At first sight, lookin' careless, you'd say, 'Why, here's the most unforchinit cuss I ever heard about,' but on a sober thought, to a man accustomed to havin' sober thoughts, it seemed as if there was luck in the bank, to pull through such performances and live to tell the tale.

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