Vulgar words in The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (Page 1)
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You're damn poor company.
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The Platonians raced toward their various goals of high-school teaching, or law, or marriage, or permanently escaping their parents; they made love, and were lazy, and ate, and swore off bad habits, and had religious emotions, all quite naturally; they were not much bored, rarely exhilarated, always ready to gossip about their acquaintances; precisely like a duke or a delicatessen-keeper.
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"Dear Lord, please just let me take out just one bonehead and beat him to a pulp, and then I'll be good and not open my head again," was his perfectly reverent prayer as he stripped before his locker.
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Tommy La Croix, the French Canuck, a quick, grinning, evil-spoken, tobacco-chewing, rather likeable young thug, stared directly at Carl and said, loudly: "'Nother thing I noticed was that Frazer didn't have his pants pressed.
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"I'll be darned!" thought Carl.
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Damn coward!
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Yet constantly the law of the adventurer, which means the instinct of practical decency, warned him that this was no amour for him; that he must not make love where he did not love; that this good-hearted vulgarian was too kindly to tamper with and too absurd to love.
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Walking through San Mateo, Carl swung his cocky green hat and scanned the sky for aircraft.
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I tole you to fly t'ree time around--you fly to Algiers an' back--you t'ink you are another Farman brother--you are a damn fool!
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All the way across.... No, not like _that_, you boob!...
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several of her friends there and usual excitement and fool questions about being an aviator, it always makes me feel like a boob.
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But after last night afraid I'll get so I depend on her, and the aviator that keeps his nerve has to be sort of a friendless cuss some ways.
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Parade of the Aero Club and Squadron A, me in an open-face hack, feeling like a boob while sixty leven billion people cheered.
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That will be something like it, seeing new country instead of scrapping with fair managers about money.
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"Gosh, and Tony such a nice little cuss," was about all he said, but he looked white around the gills.
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Say, speaking of Plato, of course you know they ousted old S. Alcott Woodski from the presidency, for heresy, something about baptism; and the dean succeeded him.... Poor old cuss, he wasn't as mean as the dean, anyway.... Say, Carl, I've always thought they gave you a pretty raw deal there----" Gertie (interrupting): "Perfectly dreadful!...
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True that when he got home, half an hour later, and in the dark ran his nose against an opened door, he said, "Damn it!" very naturally.