Vulgar words in Wings of the Wind (Page 1)
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He was attired in "knickers" and pleated jacket, that looked as if he'd slept in them, and his fat legs were knock-kneed.
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I'm wondering if we aren't a pair of chumps to take him."
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For I am particularly fond of sitting apart and watching an assemblage of handsomely groomed men and women laughing, talking and making love.
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"You fascinating little ass," Tommy murmured, "did you ever hear of love?"
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No, Jack says that she's a lady in need, who lives in the pocket of her father's white serge coat that hangs behind his stateroom door; and she's in a helluva lot of trouble, but Jack doesn't know where else she is, so we're going to comb out the universe and find her!
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Indeed, now that the thing had disappeared, I felt like an ass; and, resuming my seat, attempted to make the best of it.
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"I'm serious, all right," Tommy purred, and I knew, from the unusually soft quality of his voice, that, indeed, he was--"for, if you don't believe in ghosts, you believe we're a bunch of damn crooks--oh, yes you do!--and I may say that if you don't, you're a damn fool.
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Personally, I felt like a howling ass to be staked out and exhibited as somebody's jilted Romeo, but this was a welcome compromise; thrice welcome, since Hardwick's next words showed that he had forgotten, or dismissed, the prelude to my burst of confidence about "a man in the restaurant," for arising he said: "Well, we've kept you longer than we should.
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There was nothing gentle in his voice this time as he sharply commanded: "Look at me, you damn slacker, and let's see if I'm talking to the man I fought the Boche with!"
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"Oh, that doesn't amount to a damn," Tommy replied with supreme indifference, and for a moment I feared Monsieur was going to have a stroke of apoplexy.
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"Damn his hide, he nearly shot off my finger!"
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"Don't bother about how you'll feel if anything happens to _me_; keep those regrets for the moment a hot pill investigates your own honorable insides, Mr. Jackass!
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A fellow's _savoir faire_ is far from being faultless on such occasions, but if he's mad--damn mad--he gets along rather well, and Tommy's insulting words turned the trick for me.
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"Well, I'll be darned," Tommy grinned.
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"By the way, Smilax, how do you say 'damn old scoundrel' in Seminole?"
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He was a funny cuss, but I let it go at that.
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I don't know what fiends possessed me to be such an unmitigated ass!
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Therefore, after I thought the silence had become sufficiently impressive, I yielded to an impulse that many men find irresistible--I made an egregious ass of myself.
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Now, when a fellow has made a blatant ass of himself, I hold that the quickest road to salvation is "own up and shut up."
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Now, I had no intention of making love to her.
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Shooting fast I heard Doloria give several quick gasps of excitement as I knocked up the ash dust close to them, and although, their number was not reduced we gained a feeling of greater security to find the fort more impregnable than I had prophesied.
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But a second shot from the tree, slanting downward, struck the surface of the sand filling we had used between our walls; it hit a few inches directly in front of my face, knocking up a shower of grit that, for the moment, completely blinded me.
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Taking them in retrospect, it's a question if the thing they called sacrifice wasn't plain damn foolishness.
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The rest of us lunched in moody silence, except Monsieur who grew loquacious to the point of making himself an ass.
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"The trouble with fishing parties is," Tommy drawled, "that there's always some damn fool along who wants to fish."