Vulgar words in A Daughter of the Snows (Page 1)
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The Miss Mortimer, who spoke Parisian French, took him aback with her symbolists; but he evened matters up with a goodly measure of the bastard lingo of the Canadian _voyageurs_, and left her gasping and meditating over a proposition to sell him twenty-five pounds of sugar, white or brown.
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Carthey, a little Texan who went to work for him for a while, opened or closed every second sentence, on an average, with the mild expletive, "By damn!"
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Once, Carthey's wheel-dog lost an ear in a hasty contention with a dog of the Hudson Bay, and when the young fellow bent over the animal and discovered the loss, the blended endearment and pathos of the "by damn" which fell from his lips was a relation to Corliss.
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And as Carthey, who appreciated him, soliloquized, "The best of it is he likes it damn well, by damn!"
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I can swear from hell to breakfast, by damn, and back again, if you will permit me, to the last link of perdition.
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I can damn near smell the oranges a-ripenin'."
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She talked a bastard English gibberish which was an anguish to hear, so the pocket-miner resolved to smoke a pipe and depart without rudeness.
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If the Welse should procreate a bastard line this day, it would be the way of the Welse, and you would be a daughter of the Welse, and in the face of hell and heaven, of God himself, we would stand together, we of the one blood, Frona, you and I."
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"Damn!" he cried.
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I've capsized damn near every canoe I ever set foot in.
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"Damn St. Vincent, anyway!
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"If you look back, I'll brain you with the paddle," Corliss threatened.
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I t'ink pretty damn cold."
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"Damn poor order you preserve.
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Then he added, "I think Gow damn good man."