Vulgar words in The Miller Of Old Church (Page 1)

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ass x 1
damn x 7
hussy x 1
knocked up x 1
make love x 3
            
white trash x 1
            

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Until the boy grew up an' took hold of things, the Revercombs warn't nothin' mo' than slack fisted, out-at-heel po' white trash, as the niggers say, though the old man, Abel's grandfather, al'ays lays claim to bein' connected with the real Revercombs, higher up in the State--However that may be, befo' the war thar warn't no place for sech as them, an' 'tis only since times have changed an' the bottom begun to press up to the top that anybody has heerd of 'em.

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Damn it!

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The next instant he sprang aside and knocked up Archie's gun, which had been levelled at him.

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"What a damned ass I've made of myself," he thought savagely, when she broke from him and fled over the mill brook into the Revercombs' pasture beyond.

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'Tis al'ays that way in my experience of life--when you glance back or glance befo' 'tis pleasant enough to the eye, but at the moment while you're linin' it thar's al'ays the damn shoe that pinches."

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"It's not you that leads men on to make love to you and then throws them over--as you have thrown me--as you will throw Mr. Mullen."

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"Damn your birds!

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"Oh, damn it!

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I remember yo' grandpa, that same Jacob, tellin' me once that he never sot out to make love that his tongue didn't take a twist unbeknownst to him, an' to his surprise, thar'd roll off 'turnips' an' 'carrots' instid of terms of endearment.

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"He did?--damn him!

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"He's layin' up misery for himself and for all concerned," she said aloud, after a moment, "a girl like that with no name and precious little religion--an idle, vain, silly hussy, with a cropped head!"

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"So it's over," he said under his breath, as he looked through the lacework of ivy on the small greenish panes to the desolate November fields, "and I've been a damn fool for the asking!"

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I haven't the least idea of making love to you--I've had enough of that sort of rot, God knows--but I do like you tremendously, and I want to stand to you as a big brother.

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"Damn you!" said a voice almost in a whisper.

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