Vulgar words in A Son of the Hills (Page 1)

This book at a glance

about the size of it x 1
cuss x 1
damn x 1
fag x 1
half-wit x 2
            
hussy x 1
spunk x 1
white trash x 8
            

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Me, the po' lil' white trash in Crothers' factory--everybody!

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Her contempt of the po' white trash faded before the pathetic desolateness of Liza's glance.

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You be as fool-like as dis yere old hen-hussy.

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"Miss Ann, honey," she said in her soft, old drawl, "dem cattle down by de Branch is all that stan's 'twixt us-all and we-all becoming white trash!

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"We-all are poor white trash!

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poor white trash!

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"Poor white trash!"

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Cynthia, beside the prostrate woman, was crooning as to a baby, and over and over the desperate old voice wailed: "We-all are poor white trash!"

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And so boy and dog, muddy and fagged, came to the end of the hill, to the edge of the town and the first house, known as Stagg's Place, where room and board could be obtained for a consideration!

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So it was that ten days later the Markhams, with their "po' white trash," left The Forge--Bob rebelliously struggling in the baggage car.

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Awed and afraid, Greeley tiptoed from the house, and all the way back to the waiting County Club he muttered like a half-wit: "Fighting a worm!

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"That's about the size of it.

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"An' I reckon I wouldn' ha' let my po' lil' half-wit chile go--if I could ha' helped it.

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"Sandy Morley would like to get the girl," Crothers reasoned primitively; "and if this-er-Treadwell or Hertford can smirch her--it will finish Sandy; take his appetite for The Hollow away and--clean up the whole business--getting me even for past hurts, too--damn her!"

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An idiotic thing occurred to me and you are such a tragic cuss that I never can think things are as bad with you as you imagine."

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"If that ain't spunk and real grit."

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