Vulgar words in The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Page 1)

This book at a glance

bastard x 1
bonehead x 1
cuss x 3
damn x 9
fag x 1
            

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"'Damn you!' he blubbered.

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'Damn you!'

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This was the tame elephant that they use to subdue the wild ones--this the decoy--the little white bastard.

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Jack's eyes were bigger than usual, and he did look, notwithstanding the feverish flush on his cheeks, rather fagged.

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"You damn, lazy brute, you!

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And it happens this isn't the first time she's--well, damn it all, fourteen years ago I helped pick up this whatever-she-is off the Virginia Capes--in the same sort of condition.

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I pity the poor cuss--Well, there's only one more entry after that.

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Come back to the water again and learn how to wonder--and stop talking like a damn fool.

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"You, with your stout stone buildings and your policemen and your neighborhood church--you're so damn sure.

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"If you're laughing, why, damn me, I'll--" "Go on," I repeated.

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You're too damn smug, Ridgeway.

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"I'm sort of glad he got away--poor cuss!

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Poor cuss!

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When I think of him peeking down at me--and playing off that damn cat--probably without realizing it--scared to death--by gracious!

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Oh, You Bonehead!

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