Vulgar words in In the Days of Poor Richard (Page 1)
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The peg-leg cuss swore a blue streak an' flung the knife at him.
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He dodged an' rushed in an' grabbed holt o' the club an' fetched the cuss a whack in the paunch with his bare fist, an' ol' Red Snout went down like a steer under the ax.
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I wish I'd 'a' killed the cuss, but as 'twere, we had consid'able trouble on our hands.
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"Here are the damn Tories!" one of them shouted.
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A man back in the crowd let out a laugh as loud as the braying of an ass.
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They left Boston by stage and one evening in early April, traveling afoot, they saw the familiar boneheads around the pasture lands above Albany where the farmers had crowned their fence stakes with the skeleton heads of deer, moose, sheep and cattle in which birds had the habit of building their nests.
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In a moment Jack heard him muttering, "It's a damn wicked thing to do--which there ain't no mistake."
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"What an ignorant cuss you be!"
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They's a cuss on that tub that I helped put a coat o' tar an' feathers on in the Ohio kentry.
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I don't know his name but they use to call him Slops--the dirtiest, low-downdest, damn Tory traitor that ever lived.
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"'Souls--damn your souls!
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Jack, I have told you all this and shall tell you more because--well, you know Plato said that he would rather be a blockhead than have all knowledge and nobody to share it.
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"It should never be a qualification of the voter, because it would lead us up to this dilemma: if I have a jackass I can vote.
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If the jackass dies I can not vote.
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Therefore, my vote would represent the jackass and not me."
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He is what you would call 'a mean cuss.'
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"'Cause they're goin' to fight with the British an' we shoot so damn well they want to git us out o' the way an' do it sly an' without gittin' hurt.
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That damn German King ain't a-goin' to have his way much longer here in Boston jail."
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"He were a mean cuss.
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'Twere a cold night an' I held him ag'in' me to keep the leetle cuss warm.'
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The man who respects no authority above his own intellect is a conceited ass and would be a tyrant if he had the chance.
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I dim' up an' grabbed my rifle an' thar were 'nother cuss out on the logs not more'n ten rod erway.
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"'Damn the ol' British tub.
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All the while he had that damn black pipe in his mouth.