Vulgar words in The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea (Page 1)
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"She's gone, for sure," said Dan to the men around him, for every soul on board, even including old Chasselot--called by the men "Cuss-a-lot"--our cook, was staring into the thick night; "and I wouldn't stake a noggin that her crew ain't cheated the old un at last an' gone down singing.
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You come along, you little cuss, and see if I don't make you dance--oh, I reckon!'
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It is true that I was admitted only to the outer basin, where the coasting steamers lay, and that the man 'Roaring John' threatened me with all the curses he could command if I passed the gate which opened into the dock beyond; but such threats to a man whose business it was to lay bare mystery had no more effect on me than the braying of an ass in a field of clover.
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He was a fine fellow, I doubt not: had much merit of his faultless bow, and great worth in the nicety of his spotless waistcoat, but God never made one so dull or so preposterous a blockhead.
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Your cook, old 'Cuss-a-lot,' will serve us very well during the fourteen or fifteen days we shall need to go across the Atlantic, and we want now only a second and third officer.
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"Oh, you're a funny cuss, ain't you, and pretty with your jaw, by thunder!
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"Ask the skipper, cuss," replied the other, pushing the sleepy man forward to the chair where the Russian stood; and then Black began to speak to them quite calmly-- "Boys," he said, "I got it agen you that you refused my orders, and refused them at a pinch when me and the rest of 'em ran for our lives.