Vulgar words in The Long Roll (Page 1)

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cuss x 1
damn x 42
make love x 1
white trash x 1
            

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"Stuart's men have the sweetest time!--just galloping over the country, and making love, and listening to Sweeney's banjo-- If you want to have a good time-- If you want to have a good time, Jine the cavalry!-- What's that road over there--the cool-looking one?

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Bad habit, I acknowledge, but the occasion excuses--My battery has spent the morning, sir, on the Henry Hill, and damn me, if it hasn't been as lonely there as the Ancient Mariner!

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"In '53, when I was with Lopez in Cuba, I had a little black mare that was just as well worth dying for as a woman or a man or most causes, but, damn me!

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"Damn you, Maury, whom does he like?

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"Why, damn it all!" said the colonel.

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I 'spec he come marchin' wif you down de pike f'om dat damn battlefield?

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"I's asked erbout fifty gent'men ... Reckon Marse Charlie so damn tired he jes' lain down somewhere an' gone ter sleep.

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"I am glad to hear you say that, for damn me, confidence is what I want!

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damn you, where's my sword and sash?"

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"That certainly is damn funny!" said Harris; "unless I've taken to seeing sights."

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Apparently we're leaving the Valley--damn it all!

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Says people all think we've gone to reinforce Richmond without caring a damn what becomes of the Valley.

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Damn it, gentlemen, I'm a major-general on a seesaw!

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"Damn me, general!

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"Get off the top of my broken leg--damn you to everlasting hell!"

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Pity you didn't have just one neck so's he could do the whole damn thirteen millions of you at once!--Jeff Davis and Lee and Johnston were hanged at noon.

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"You damn po' white trash, shet yo' mouf or I'll mek you!

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The horses moved toward what seemed lusher grass, one of the poker players said "Damn!" the reader turned a leaf of the Greek Testament.

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"Damn you!

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You held the trumps--Damn me!

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Fire!--Damn it all, what's the use?

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In the field and on the Staunton road all was commotion; wagons with their teams moving in double column up the road, negro teamsters clamouring with ashen looks, "Dose damn Yanks!

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I gather you didn't use any cuss words.

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they're damn slow, and ain't a man over here got anything to drink!

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"Damn!

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"I ain't going that-a-way and meet that gunner again--damn him to everlasting hell!"

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All right--" "He wore a blue damn-Yankee coat All buttoned down before--" The Stonewall Brigade passed a new-made grave in a small graveyard, from which the fence had been burned.

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Damn it, fire!

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"Cut her loose, damn you!--I'll take the helm--" He, too, died.

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Damn!

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If anything could induce me to be a damn Yankee 'twould be them guns of their'n!

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And in the night-time the damn Yankees continued to retreat away.

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Yes, we were right tired, damn Yankees and all of us....

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Well, boys, the damn Yankees continued their retreat to Harrison's Landing, where their hell-fire gunboats could stand picket for them.... Say, ma'am, would you kindly tell me why that four-post bed over there is all hung with wreaths of roses?--'Isn't any bed there?'

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I see it.... Evelington Heights--and Stuart dropping shells into the damn Yankees' camp....

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Eveling--Well, the damn Yankees dragged their guns up there, too....

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--"Here you fellows--damn you!

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"Halt, damn you!

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It's the aristocracy, damn you!

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Now you just turn out into the woods yourself, and the next time I tell you to halt, damn you, halt!"

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Damn it, sir, six of us!"

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a stream of them--up that narrow valley!--Now--now--now Early has touched them!--Damn you, Billy!

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Damn you, Maury, I don't want you to stay!

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Why, damn it all!

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