The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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"Cuss ye, Reddy, yer goin' to side with Thirkle ag'in' me, I can see that."

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An' I started sayin' grace at table, an' lef' off the on'y cuss-word I ever did use, which was "durn."

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"Cuss a little--it may help you."

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"He will not drink, he does not smoke, and I never have heard him cuss."

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If you will cuss a little it will relieve my feelings immensely."

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Don't you ever cuss, Frank?"

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"Forgot the yaller cuss!" replied he.

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He noted the place where Jack used to scratch the door to get into the cabin, and started at the thought that he should hear it no more, and told himself, with many cuss-words, that he was "mighty glad of it."

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Funny, now the scare is over and he is all safe, I shall probably cuss him out as hard as ever next time he tries to preach at me."

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"Sez he, 'What did you bring this pussylanermus cuss here fur?' and he hit the wax figger another tremenjis blow on the bed."

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I was told not to lose my ticket, or I could not get in; and when the ticket taker seized hold of it, I held on until he finally yelled angrily, "Let go, you little cuss!" whereupon my father came to his rescue.

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Mr. Hooper would cuss.

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Old boss didn't cuss.

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Mad--"It pesters a man dreadful when he git mad an' don' know who to cuss."

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It's ten to one he sent that cuss to watch 'em.

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Our old indulgences are now not cricket; Whate'er one does _some_ Minister will cuss; In Tube and Tram young ladies punch one's ticket, With whom one can't be cross or querulous; All things are different, but still we stick it, And humbly hope we help a little thus.

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"Pointed--the little cuss!"

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I don't like babies--except Mrs. Rickett's and he's such a jolly little cuss."

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They got along all right with the little one, the one they called John Calvin Sorrow--only the little cuss kicked and scrambled so that we both had to see to him for a minute, and when we was ready for the other, there he was at least ten rods away, a-legging it into the scrub oak.

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He also said, in his subsequent narrative to the Entablature of Truth: "You know I've always took Brother Rae for jest a natural born _not_, a shy little cuss that could be whiffed around by anything and everything, but when I drove off he had a plumb ornery fighting look in them deep-set eyes of his, and blame me if I didn't someway feel sorry for him,--he's that warped up, like an old water-soaked sycamore plank that gits laid out in the sun."

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"I don't know anything about all this hell-talk, but I see I can't kill you--you're such a poor, miserable cuss.

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I didn't guess what for, but the first thing I knew the other boy was scratching, and kicking, and hollering, and like to have wriggled away, so the cuss that was with me ran up to help.

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Think of that girl going to a low cuss of a Gentile when Brigham wants her.

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"And maybe this cuss has got friends," suggested Glines.

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His master learnt him in books and to how to cuss.

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She said in living with them in the house, she learned to cuss from him.

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She would be locked up in the seed bin and she would cuss the preacher out so he could hear her.

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They sure did cuss him: 'The ----, ----, ----, old senator,' they would say.

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I don't like to hear nobody cuss.

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So 'ere's our philosophy, simple an' plain: Wotever we 'ates in the bloomin' campaign, 'Tis balm to our souls, as we grumble an' cuss, To feel that the Boches are 'atin' it wuss.

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He had got about twenty ounces in his belt, and we shifted it into our bag, and were just going on when 'Zekel--that is one of my mates--said, 'I know this cuss, Dave; it's the chap that lived in that village close to where we were working six months ago; they said he had been fossicking all over Arizona, and that he was the only one who ever came back out of a party who went to locate a wonderful rich spot it was said he knew of.

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Said Purdy: "I had to think up some things that would get the old cuss his money and dummed if he didn't take it all serious and think he did have 'em!"

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Ballad of Eels (A), 164 Books and Books, 403 Change Cure (The), 84 Constable Jinks, 188 Cuss-Control, 254 Game of His Life (The), 124 In Wild Wales, 228 "Jong," 204 Lips and their Lessons, 424 Lines on Re-reading "Bleak House," 176 Margarine, 387 New Mrs. Markham (The), 272, 285, 308, 317, 348 Old Song Re-sung (An), 93 Our Mighty Penmen, 54 Pure English, 243 Rhymes for the Times, 275, 307 Sirens and Their Successors, 43 Spoil-Sport (The), 134 Stanzas on Tea Shortage, 291 Sugar, 372 Test of Type (The), 196 To "Martin Ross", 412 Tropical Tragedy (A), 260 Weary Watcher (The), 27 Woman as Usual, 5 HEILGERS, MISS LOUISE.

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Mars Marrabo wuz monst'us mad, en hit would 'a' made yo' flesh crawl fer ter hear him cuss, 'caze he say de spekilater w'at he got Tenie fum had fooled 'im by wukkin' a crazy 'oman off on him.

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W'en Kunnel Pen'leton went out ter de stable en see de hoss's laigs, hit would 'a' des made you trimble lack a leaf fer ter heah him cuss dat hoss trader.

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Patrollers "Me and old lady Eford would be out in the yard and I would hear her cuss the pateroles because they didn't want folks to 'buse their niggers.

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We would hear the hounds baying after them and old lady Eford would stand out in the yard and cuss them--cuss the hounds I mean.

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I wasn't thinking cuss-words at all.

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If you feel like cussing me hearty when the time comes go ahead and cuss, but I got to hear that story."

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I think he is a mean cuss.

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And, though I don't like cuss-words, I have to acknowledge that I enjoyed the two or three that he promptly ejaculated.

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Camp cried, "All the more fool--" but Baldwin interrupted him by saying-- "That only shows what a mean cuss Cullen is.

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"Git as angry as yer ---- please," roared the sheriff wrathfully, "but ---- my soul to ---- if any ---- ---- cuss has a right to use such ---- ---- talk in the presence of a lady!"

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Evidently that cuss isn't here, but he's likely to come by and by.

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"I told yer this was the last place to look for the cuss, Mr. Camp," he said.

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There's a pretty mess come o' that, by-the-by; for, out of the talk there was among the gentlemen about that difficulty, the Squire laid a bet as _he_ would drive stags; not as _we_ do, mind you, but in harness, like carriage-horses; and, cuss me, if he hasn't had the break out half a dozen times with four red deer in it, and you may see him tearing through the park, with mounted grooms and keepers on the right and left of him, all galloping their hardest, and the Squire with the ribbons, a-holloaing like mad!

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"Cuss him!

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"He was an awful-lookin' cuss," said the other, with a nod of affirmation.

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You could take these men and soak their heads overnight in a pailful of ideas, and they wouldn't absorb anything but the few loose cuss-words that you'd mixed in for flavoring.

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A broad-gauged merchant is a good deal like our friend Doc Graver, who'd cut out the washerwoman's appendix for five dollars, but would charge a thousand for showing me mine--he wants all the money that's coming to him, but he really doesn't give a cuss how much it is, just so he gets the appendix.

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Absalom Magoffin, who had had all the post-mortem trade of the town for forty years, was a queer old cuss, and he had some mighty aggravating ways.

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Then, too, I never saw such a cuss for system.

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I didn't dare send Sol to the machine-shop, because I knew he wouldn't have been there a week before he'd have had the shop running on Götterdämmerung or one of those other cuss-word operas of Wagner's.

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Of course, I didn't let on that I knew anything about a quarrel, but I gradually steered the conversation around to you, and while I don't want to hurt your feelings, I am violating no confidence when I tell you that the mention of your name aroused about the same sort of enthusiasm that Bill Bryan's does in Wall Street--only Helen is a lady and so she couldn't cuss.

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And when there's a cuss in the family and it comes down to betting which, on general principles the man always carries my money.

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While I don't mean to say that the average wedding present carries a curse instead of a blessing, it could usually repeat a few cuss-words if it had a retentive memory.

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Naturally, Percy had hardly got the pap-rag out of his mouth before he learned to smoke cigarettes, and he could cuss like a little gentleman before he went into long pants.

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It's a mighty good thing to understand French if you can use it to some real purpose, but when all the good it does a fellow is to help him understand the foreign cuss-words in a novel, or to read a story which is so tough that it would make the Queen's English or any other ladylike language blush, he'd better learn hog-Latin!

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When Buck himself had used up all the cuss-words in Missouri on his conduct, she had sense enough to know that his stock of trouble was full, and that if she wanted to get a hold on him she mustn't show him stripes, but something in cheerful checks.

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Curious old cuss, the Doc.

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Well, sir, I'm hanged if that fellow, whom I'd raised from the time he was old enough to poke a barrel along the runways with a pointed stick, didn't blow a cloud of cigar smoke in my face to show that he was just as big as I was, and start tight in to regularly cuss me out.

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One bad boy in a Sunday-school picnic can turn it into a rough-house outfit for looting orchards, and one little cuss in your office can demoralize your kids faster than you can fire them.

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He was a solemn little cuss, but I didn't get much chance to size him up, because his ma started right in to explain how he'd been raised--no whipping, no--but I cut it short there, and asked her to get down to brass tacks, as I was very busy trying to see that 70,000,000 people were supplied with their daily pork.

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he'll sit in a small game with a large cigar, breathing a blend of light-blue cigarette smoke and dark-blue cuss-words, and next day, when his heart beats four and skips two, and he has that queer, hopping sensation in the knees, he'll complain bitterly to the other clerks that this confining office work is killing him.

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Was a mighty particular cuss.

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For when a fellow's given to that, his men secretly won't care a cuss whether he's pleased or not.

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Almost looked to Thorn as if he might have to go to work for a living, but he was a tenacious cuss, and stuck it out till one day when Jim came back to Leadville from a near-by camp, where he'd been looking at some played-out claims.

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She's jest the cutest little cuss ever you see.

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But if we haven't anything to sell, we ain't doing anything to shove the world along; and we ought to make room on it for some coarse, commercial cuss with a sample-case.

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A boy doesn't pick up cuss-words when his mother's around or learn cussedness from his father.

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Things wuz ripenin' fust-rate with Buchanan to nuss 'em; But the People they wouldn't be Mexicans, cuss 'em!

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Things looks pooty squally, it must be allowed, An' I don't see much signs of a bow in the cloud: Ther' 's too many Decmocrats--leaders, wut's wuss-- Thet go for the Union 'thout carin' a cuss Ef it helps ary party thet ever wuz heard on, So our eagle ain't made a split Austrian bird on.

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He once more shifted the wad of tobacco, as a preliminary to expectorating gravely into the sand floor, and pronounced his sentence with a promptness that savored of relish: "The verdict of the jury is that we hang Jack Allen for killin' Texas and Rawhide, and for bein' a mean, ornery cuss, anyway."

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Why don't you kick me for being such a selfish cuss?"

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Your testimony on the jingle feature ain't worth a cuss.

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"Kind of a complimentary cuss, ain't he?" queried Pat, turning to his assistant.

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He runs about twelve hundred woollies, and is about as unpolite a cuss as I ever met up with.

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"For a steady-minded cuss, yuh do have surprising streaks, Dilly, and that's a fact.

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"Charitable old cuss--that same Brown!

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It seems but yesterday that he and I were enjoying a game of "pickknife," lacerating the top of a new desk, when in rushed the "D.D." with his feet encased in the thinnest of slippers and with which he gave me a kick which broke his toe, then clasping it in his hand, danced on one leg, whooping unconsciously cuss word ejaculations till we shrieked with laughter; then he bumped our heads together until my big brother shook the dominie-pedagogue as a dog would a rat, and threatened that if he ever struck my head again he would drown him in the horsepond.

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Let's hear what the cuss has to say; he's a cool un."

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'I've gut the cuss,' he shouted, 'and I'll hold him here till he freezes to death.'

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"Now, cuss old Frosthead, and you too!" says I.

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Some dam cuss of an Injun threw a handful of hay on the fire, and, as it blazed up, the whole gang spotted me.

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"He's a particular kind of cuss," I thought; "bareback would suit most people."

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"'Aw, shucks, Zony,' I says, 'a great, big man like you oughtn't to come down on a little cuss who's all thumb-hand-side and left feet.'

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There's some women, and men, too, for that matter, who go through life like a cat through a back alley, not caring a cuss for either end or the middle.

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"'Cheese it, you little cuss!'

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He had come to town to sell a pair of beef-steers, but got drawn into the general hilarity, and now he didn't care a cuss whether he, she, or it ever sold another steer.

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Besides you are a funny cuss, that's sure.

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It wouldn't be possible to find an ornerier cuss than you, if a man raked all hell with a fine-toothed comb.

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"I can see him now putting his hands down so careful, and turning back every once in awhile to cuss me.

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"Cuss me if I don't shift the cut a little, anyhow," he added mentally.

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I just stopped in to find out if you knew anyone that had a riding horse for sale; horse with four good legs that'll carry me all day, and about the rest I don't care a frolicsome cuss."

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Run away and let me cuss!" shrieked Red.

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We ain't done that, and perhaps we'll go broke for breaking the rules, and then your stock won't be worth a cuss; so don't you get excited about it.

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"I must seem an awful rough cuss to her, though; all right for a cousin, but it's different when you come to the other proposition.

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If we was going to do the thing, we wanted to do it; and so forth and so forth, till we had him saddled and bridled and standing in the corner of the corral as peaceful as a soldier's monument, for he was the best-hearted old cuss under his crust that ever lived.

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Nervous cuss--oh, awful!

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