The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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And I've come back, with welcome tread, From journeyin's vain, as I have said, To settle down in ca'm content, And cuss the towns where I have went, And brag on ourn, and boast and strut Around the streets o' Terry Hut!

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Dey had all de silver and sich like, when de captain comed in, and he did cuss mity hard and made em put it every bit down, and march out.

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But the old Cuss thinking to pacifie her Anger by convincing her it wan't so late, wou'd needs go look upon his Watch; but quickly finding that altho' the Nest was there, the Bird was flown, put up the Case again, with only saying, _Good lack a day!

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("He's going to say he's hard up--the extravagant cuss!"

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"I hope you dear people don't think I'm an ungrateful cuss, not to have come to Green Hill this summer; but the fact is, I've been awfully up against it, trying to make up my mind about something."

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My damn rifle and my helmet Keep on getting in the way, And my brains are numb and dopey Try'n' to cuss and try'n' to pray.

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Do yer think the blooming blokes Cares a cuss for me and you, JIM, any more than for our mokes?

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He can't fire us fellers for bein' away even if he does get sore and cuss us out.

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"We can't talk a word of the lingo, and if your idea be to march through the country till we can find a boat, bless my buttons if we can do it, 'cos the first cuss I say will be the ruin of us."

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take him away--cuss him!"

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Take the cuss off, can't ye, and not let him stand over me this way?"

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Cuss me, if ye ain't an honor to the States!"

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"As I was saying," continued Day, filling his pipe while talking, "I was always an ambitious cuss, and used to like plenty of money to spend on dress and cheap jewelry, but I couldn't always get it; one day my fellow 'prentice made a proposal, which he stated would fill our pockets and enable us to sport 'round nights in great style.

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When I got back las' night, there's Bud settin' against th' wall lookin' like an exhibit from the morgue, fightin' for breath t' cuss you with.

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They kept up their lick until they nearly drowned the poor cuss, then whispered to him to be good to his wife or his time would be short.

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"It can't be right, can it, to say 'cuss words' at us like that?

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She's dead now, the lam', an' my cuss be on him as killed her."

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Mr. Mason asked, and the landlord replied, "Some Northern cuss she met in Georgia where she was staying a spell with her kin.

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But that Northern cuss needs killin'.

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The next day was Sunday, and Mr. Mason took for the subject of his remarks in the parlor of the hotel the story of Lazarus and Dives, and every time he spoke of Dives receiving his good things in life, he thought of the man whom the landlord had designated a "Northern cuss"; and every time he spoke of Lazarus, he thought of poor little Dory and that humble grave in the sands of the palmetto clearing.

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_Cuss_ him, wharever he is!

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Cuss him to-night, ef he's alive; an' ef his bed is soff' as wool, doan let him sleep for thinkin' of Miss Dory.

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There was a throb of pity in his heart as his remorse increased, and the hot night seemed to quiver with the echo of Mandy Ann's "cuss him, cuss him wherever he may be, and if his bed is soff as wool doan' let him sleep a wink."

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Homer Smith ought to be dead, and as to the baby it would have been very upsetting in the house, and might have been queer, like the Harrises, or worse yet, like its _cuss_ of a father.

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He is an old man now, and if there is such a thing as an aristocratic negro, he is one; with his face black as ebony, his hair white as snow, and his eyes full of intelligence and fire, especially when he talks of Miss Dory and 'de good ole times fo' she went to Georgy and met de Northern cuss.'

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There was not much more for Mandy Ann to tell of the Colonel, except to speak of the money he had sent to her and Jake, proving that he was not "the wustest man in the world, if she did cuss him kneeling on Miss Dory's grave the night after the burial."

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He was shot right through his heart, and I hope a swingin' cuss 'ill come on him that put the ball threough, tew".

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And the old cuss fired into 'em and killed this 'ere man.

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"That Sergeant Moore hee's a queer cuss, sure 'nuff, to give away a dog like thees for nothing; and then, by gar, to pay me ten dollar for takin' heem."

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I meant it was such an honor for common folks like us to git inside of the palace of a high-toned cuss like Farnham; and the fact is, Sammy," he continued, more seriously, "I _would_ like to see the inside of some of these swell places.

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He sure is the lonesomest-lookin' cuss this side of that dead pine on Bald Butte, that I ever seen."

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"That new cook was sure a original cuss!

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"Wonder how fast the cuss _can_ run?"

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His attitude was somewhat akin to that of Cardinal Richelieu in the handkerchief scene, "Take but one step within these sacred bounds and on our head I'll lunch the cuss of Rum," or something to that effect.

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"Wants me to vote, the little cuss!

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If this is your little game, captain, all I have to say is, you are the darndest double-faced old cuss on this side of perdition.

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A got used to 'earin' 'er cuss me.

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Going to make Little Stevie cuss!

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Oh, the seven plagues of Egypt aren't in it with what we're going to do; and when we get done if Little Stevie don't let out a string of good, honest cuss-words like a man then I'll eat my hat.

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"Just one nice little cuss-word and we'll take you home," whispered a tormentor.

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"Just one little real cuss to show you are a _man_," sneered the freshman.

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Artemus Ward's reports of his own conversations with the mighty of the earth were made highly ludicrous by the homely want of self-consciousness, displayed by the owner of the Kangaroo, that "amoosin' little cuss," and of the "two moral B'ars."

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"Didn't you cuss him when you set on him?" queried Pete.

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"Don't you ever cuss?"

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"Didn't you never cuss in your life?"

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"Well, if you promise you won't tell nobody, I did cuss onct, when I struck the plough into a yellow-jacket's nest which I wa'n't aimin' to hit, nohow.

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The poor cuss ain't hardly got enough sense to die.

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"Mebby the doggone cuss knows that I'm quittin' for good," he thought.

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Fust thing this mawnin' I heard that bell and jumped out o' my bunk plumb onto the cuss.

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"He's a friendly cuss, ain't he?" remarked Pete.

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I sure jagged myself on the top-wire, frequent, but I never let that there Robinson Crusoe cuss git out of sight till I run him into his a home-corral along with that there man-eatin' nigger of his'n."

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Lazy cuss, aren't you?" he asked amiably.

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An' ornamental sort o' cuss, ain't he?

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He's a wonder on the road--you've got to take your hat off to the damn cuss!"

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"Why, Girl," he said, all the kindliness of his gentle nature flooding his eyes, "the boys an' me ain't perhaps realised jest what Johnson stood for you, an' hearin' what you said, an' seein' you prayin' over the cuss--" Rance's face lit up scornfully.

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"The cuss?" he cut in, objecting to a term which is not infrequently used affectionately.

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"Yes, the cuss," repeated Sonora, all the vindictiveness gone from his heart now.

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

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Last Summer we took on a Spaniard, A mis'rable kind of cuss, Spry feller--but awful tempered, Always a-makin' a fuss.

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"He--he seemed to be all torn up about something; couldn't say three words without putting a cuss word in with them.

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"Looks like a harmless old cuss--but mean," says I.

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"I'll go and kill the cuss that took him off!"

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"You pore, pitiful cuss," said Field.

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"Jim's an awful clever ole cuss," said Field, trusting to work some benefit by a judicious application of flattery.

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"Was that the cuss?

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"Yep, good old cuss, Dave is, though.

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He's a funny cuss, old Van."

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"I seen that Government surveyor cuss.

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But if I were a contractor, and you were trying to get me to commit myself to any such steeplechase, I should say no, and confirm it with a cuss-word."

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"If it ain't no great output to you, mister, to tell, do you happen to know who was the nub of that streak of wind and cuss-words that jest went past here?"

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"I've got goods that will break and I'll be cuss-fired if I'll break 'em for you nor the whole Smyrna Fire Department!" screamed Brackett; but when he tried to pull up his steed, the Cap'n, now wholly beside himself and intent only on unrestricted speed, banged a leather bucket down across the driver's hands.

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You've just escaped by luck, chance, and the skin of your teeth from a cuss that northin' is too low for him to lay his hand to.

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Even his name written on a piece of paper is a cuss to the man that lugs it!"

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And him and that woman, by Alcander Reeves's advice, are teaming that old cuss of a husband back and forth acrost that strip and markin' down a trespass offence every time he lugs an armful of wood."

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"Get a few elders to put up here," suggested Mr. Brackett, venomously, "and new management might take a little cuss off'm the reppytation of this tavern."

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He's got to be like rats and hossflies and other pests--you cuss 'em, but you reckon they've come to stay."

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"And even that old cuss wa'n't so skin-tight as you be.

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"Got to have money to square up bills and take the cuss off'm this town of welchin' on a straight proposition to outsiders who came down here all in good faith after prizes."

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The only man I saw who seemed to have anything like a balanced mind was the financial shark, a little ferret-eyed, onery-looking cuss whom I wouldn't have trusted out of my sight.

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You orto hear ole mas'r cuss him oncet.

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"That old cuss thinks he's got a regular Gibraltar behind those hills with his lousy Indians.

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That's what he did, the cuss.

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"Ye old cuss," Jim shouted, "what do ye mean by runnin' away with that girl?

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"But I'm not goin' without that cuss," and Jim looked savagely at the old man.

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"Oh, take the cuss, then.

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He certainly was an innocent cuss."

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There was nothing for him and he seemed very surly and said a few cuss words about people not writing.

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My, he was a cranky cuss, if ever there was one.

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Yes, you laboured in vain, my noble lords--you, old gentleman yonder, you with the telescope--an admiral, no doubt--you sailed the seas in vain; and you over there, you mediæval-looking cuss, you carried your armour through the battles of Cressy and Poictiers in vain; and you, noble lady in the high bodice, you whose fingers play with the flaxen curls of that boy--he was the heir of this place two hundred years ago--I say, you bore him in vain, your labour was in vain; and you, old fogey that you are, you in the red coat, you holding the letter in your gouty fingers, a commercial-looking letter, you laboured in trade to rehabilitate the falling fortunes of the family, and I say you too laboured in vain.

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Here, Phillis, who's this bin here, diggin up my sweet-williams I planted?--cuss dese children--" "The children had nothing to do with it," said Phillis.

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Cuss de ruffles, I wish you'd cut 'em off."

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Cuss him, 'twas a black man done it; he told me he'd smash my brains out if I made a sound.

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And, Dewani, this restless cuss, Amir Khan, might make a treaty with the English any time.

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an impressionable cuss should have a _purdah_ hung over his soul--or be gagged."

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A man can "cuss" to his satisfaction and, if not a church member, the community is not shocked.

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As Joe trudged through the darkness and rain in the direction of Shuter's store, he repeated several times, "It was pretty small to treat her like that; I never felt such a mean cuss before; but what in the world was I to do?"

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"There's a lot of you," Joe went on, "who saw him last night, in that gambling whiskey dive of his, try to draw his knife on Harry Langdon, and heard him shout after me that he'd have a reckoning some other time with that cub of mine; and, boys, he's kept his word, for Harry lies in his tent there, dead, stabbed to the heart, in the dead of night, through the folds of the tent, by that cuss there that you were so afraid I'd string up."

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Th' one with th' wart on her chin, that was engaged for matrimoney to Sid Gilman till one day they was ridin' t'gether, an' Sid's cayuse slips into a gopher hole, an' Sid falls off an' sprains his ankle, an' lets loose such a string o' cuss words that Jennie--" "Say, Bill," protested Buck Higgins, "'f you couldn't shoot no straighter'n you c'n talk you'd be a mighty poor risk for a insurance comp'ny.

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"Well, Bill's a funny cuss, an' mebbe he kept this for you as a sort o' s'prise," the driver allowed, with a grin.

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