Vulgar words in A Poor Man's House (Page 1)
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Either the sea has been too rough to ride to a slingstone[1] for blinn and conger, or else too calm, so that the mackerel hookers[2] could not sail out and therefore no fresh bait was to be had.
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"'Tis al'ays like that, putting off from thees yer damn'd ol' baych.
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"God damn the child--that ever I should say it--get 'long!
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We lingered over our tea till he said: "Must go out an' clean they ther boats--the popples what they damn visitors' children chucks in for to amuse theirselves, not troubling to think us got to pick every one on 'em out be hand, an' looking daggers at 'ee when you trys to tell 'em o'it so polite as yu can.
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Tony is hard of hearing, catches the meaning of dialect far quicker than that of standard English, and I notice that the damn'd spot _sir_ seldom blots our conversation when it is carried on in dialect.
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Then you are damn'd!
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"Well," said Luscombe, "all I know is, when a man tells me he's never been afraid of anything anywhere, I tells him to his face, 'You'm a damn'd liar!'
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Blow, damn ye, blow!
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I mind when yu cude haul in a seine so full as.... Might pick up a shilling or tu t'night shrimping, if they damn visitors an' bloody tradesmen an't been an' turned the whole o' Broken Rocks up an' down.
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As I lay flat on the rock to drop my nets, the rattle and roar of the sea beyond, vibrating through the solid stone, the whistle of the wind through the downhanging oarweed, sounded like an orchestra of the mad damn'd.
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'Tis, 'Back oar-for'ard--back wi' inside--steady--steady--damn yer eyes!'
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"Sarve thee damn well right!" said Mam Widger.
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He fails to restrain his cuss-words for example--but then cuss-words were invented to impress fools.
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"Damn'd if us bain't going to see some sport!" shouted John as we hastened back to take up the road.
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"Be damn'd if yu shan't!" said Tony.