Vulgar words in White Shadows in the South Seas (Page 1)
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In the diving season it's the only damn thing that'll pass.
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He demanded brusquely, "What are you _oui-oui_-ing for?" and occasionally interjected a few words of bastard French in an attempt to be jovial.
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All the company laughed at this, except Madame Bapp, who glared angrily and exclaimed, "_Coquine!_" which means hussy.
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I tried to damn my mood, but found no profanity utterable.
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I have known a Hawaiian nobleman who, commenting on this fact, said that the system had merit in that no child could be called a bastard, and that the woman, who suffered most, was rewarded by pride of posterity.
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I am by myself and damn everybody!"
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He was damn hypocrite.
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His misery made me feel bad, and the damned _nonos_, too, and I cried--I don't know how damn sentimental it was, but that was the way it affected me.
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Mango and limes, breadfruit and cocoanut, _pomme de Cythère_, orange and papaws, banana and alligator-pear, candlenut and chestnut, mulberry and sandalwood, _tou_, the bastard ebony, and rosewood, the rose-apple with purple tasseled flowers and delicious fruit, the pistachio and the _badamier_, scores of shrubs and bushes and magnificent tree-ferns, all on a tangled sward of white spider-lilies, great, sweet-smelling plants, an acre of them, and with them other ferns of many kinds, and mosses, the nodding _taro_ leaves and the _ti_, the leaves which the Fatu-hivans make into girdles and wreaths; all grew luxuriantly, friendly neighbors to the Swiss, set there by him or volunteering for service in the generous way of the tropics.
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"This man made love to me and lived with me.
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"By damn, yes," croaked the hermit, in the voice of a raven loosed from a deserted house.