Vulgar words in The Death Shot - A Story Retold (Page 1)

This book at a glance

damn x 9
slut x 1
white trash x 3
            

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A short, but profane, speech terminates the terrible episode; four words of most heartless signification:-- "Damn him; he's dead!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 544   ~   ~   ~

Sometimes the sons of "poor white trash" take part in it; but it is usually delivered over to the "darkey."

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Believing it so, he resumes his erect attitude, exclaiming in louder tone, and with like profanity as before,-- "Yes, dead, damn him!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,095   ~   ~   ~

She, daughter of the erst proudest planter in all Mississippi State, has been slighted for a Creole girl; possibly, one of the "poor white trash" living along the bayous' edge.

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Still it is not a log-cabin; but a "frame-house," its walls of "weather-boarding," planed and painted, its roof cedar-shingled; a style of architecture occasionally seen in the Southern States, though not so frequently as in the Northern--inhabited by men in moderate circumstances, poorer than planters, but richer, or more gentle, than the "white trash," who live in log-cabins.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,484   ~   ~   ~

It's never forgiven me since the day I chastised it, when it came after one of our sluts.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,449   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the letter!" exclaims one of the impatient ones, who has already spoken in similar strain; "the picture, too!

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"Damn the luck!" he vociferates, bringing his fist down upon the counter till the decanters dance at the concussion; "I'd 'a given a hundred dollars to 'a been in the place o' that fellow Darke, whoever he is!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,775   ~   ~   ~

An', while I envy this Dick Darke, I say damn him for doin' it!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,776   ~   ~   ~

"Damn Dick Darke!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,777   ~   ~   ~

Damn him for doin' it!" they shout, till the walls re-echo their ribald blasphemy.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,598   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you!" he cries.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,266   ~   ~   ~

Damn the ugly brute of a backwoodsman!

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