The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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He was a comical cuss, eh?

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She said she thought a person, when they was on a prowbation, ought to be a martyr, and try and overcome all temptations to do evil, and if Pa could go through six months of our home life, and not cuss the hinges off the door, he was sure of a glorious immortality beyond the grave.

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Another said, 'He's the cuss that took ten dollars out of my pay for pickles that were put up in _aqua fortis_.

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The minister, who comes to see Ma every three times a week, was just ringing the bell and the goat thought he wanted to be nishiated too, and gave him one, for luck, and then went down the sidewalk, blatting, and sneezing, and the minister came in the parlor and said he was stabbed, and then Pa came out of his room with his suspenders hanging down, and he didn't know the minister was there, and he said cuss words, and Ma cried and told Pa he would go to hell sure, and Pa said he didn't care, he would kill that kussid goat afore he went, and I told Pa the minister was in the parlor, and he and Ma went down and said the weather was propitious for a revival, and it seemed as though an outpouring of the spirit was about to be vouchsafed to His people, and none of them sot down but Ma, cause the goat didn't hit her, and while they were talking relidgin, with their mouths, and kussin the goat inwardly, my chum and me adjourned the lodge, and I went and stayed with him all night, and I haven't been home since.

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I didn't know a deacon could talk so sassy at a cow, and come so near swearing without actually saying cuss words.

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Dad he got so interested that he forgot to cuss me about ordering that dinner, and he said he had noticed her, and would like real well to get acquainted with her, 'cause a man far away from home, sick as a dog, with no loving wife to look after him, needed cheerful company.

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I remember attending the theater at home and seeing Richard the Third played, and I remember how my sympathies were aroused for the two little boy princes that were murdered by Richard the Third, but I thought it was a fake play, and that there was nothing true about it, but, by gosh, it was right here in the Tower of London that the old hump-backed cuss murdered those little princes, and dad and I stood right on the spot, and the beef-eater who showed us around told us all the particulars.

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He got a row boat and went out in the harbor to where the back-bone of the "Maine" acts as a monument to the fellows who yet sleep in the mud of the bottom, and after tying a little American flag on the rigging that sticks up above the water, and damning the villains who blew up the good ship, we went back to town and drove out to the cemetery where several hundred of our boys are buried, where we left flowers on the graves and a cuss in the balmy air for the guilty wretches who fired the bomb, and then we went back to the city and walked the beautiful streets, until dad began to have cramps, from trying to eat all the fruit he could hold, and then it was all off, and I was going to call a carriage to take him to the hotel, when dad saw a negro astride a single ox, hitched to a cart, who had come in from the country, and dad said he wanted to ride in that cart, if it was the last act of his life, and as dad was beginning to swell up from the fruit he had eaten, I thought he better ride in an open cart, cause in a carriage he might swell up so we couldn't get him out of the door when we got to the hotel, so I hired the negro, got dad in the cart, and we started, but the ox walked so slow I was afraid we would never get dad there alive, so I told the negro dad had the cholera, and that settled, for he kicked the slats of the ox in with his heels, and the ox bellowed and run away, and the negro turned pale from fright, and I guess the runaway ride on the cobble stone pavement was what saved dad's life, for the swelling in dad's inside began to go down, and when we got to the hotel he got out of the cart alone, and I knew he was better, for he shook himself, gulluped up wind, and said, "You think you are smart, don't you?"

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"Well, what do you commence your education spelling out cuss words for?" asked the old man, as he raked the razor down one side of his face, pulling his mouth around to one side so it looked like the mouth of a red-horse fish.

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Certainly a prize fighter in whipping a friend to raise money to support one wife and one set of children, when the other fellow is willing to take the chances of being whipped, is not as bad as a praying old cuss who marries from twenty to forty feeble minded females and raises a flock of narrow headed children to turn loose after a while, with not much more brain than goslings.

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Do you know, every cuss in that audience saw us go down there?

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One day we stopped at his store to enjoy his society, and eat crackers and cheese--for be it known we never took offence at him, in fact we sort of liked the old cuss--when he told us to take a seat and talk it over.

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40 calibre bullets into various places in the person of his venerable father, who has nurtured him from childhood, stored his mind with useful knowledge, or perchance played mumblety peg with a shingle across the place where in later years another father may plant oblong pieces of leather, because of his habit of leaning his youthful stomach across the gate whereon swings a gentle maiden belonging to this other father, the while giving her glucose in regard to a beautiful castle that he will rear with his own hands on a commanding eminence, surrounded with vines and roses, into the golden portals of which he will usher her and empty into her lap the precious treasures of the orient, when the cuss knows that he will never be able to earn more than twelve shillings a day on a farm the longest day he lives, and that if she marries him she will have to take in stairs to scrub and cook liver over an oil stove, and wear the same dress she is married in till it will stand alone.

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"Why," said he, as he was thumbing over the Bible to read a chapter before morning prayers, "the tow headed cuss would draw to a pair of deuces and get an ace full.

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She drew her pistol, cocked it, and pointed it at Pierce, who was trembling in every leg, and said: "Look-a-here, you young cuss.

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The whole gang had combined against us, and we got up to leave them, meditating revenge, when Walt Webb said, "Let's throw the cuss overboard."

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People who never thought of such things before, except during the cucumber season, have become familiar with their livers and internal improvements, and talk as glibly of the abdomen, the umbilicus--as well as the cuss who shot him--the peritonitis, the colon, the ilium, the diaphragm, the alacumbumbletop and the diaphaneous cholagogue as though they had been attending a Chicago meat cutting match at a students' dissecting room.

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I stood it all until a cuss reached into my pocket and took my meershaum pipe and a bag of tobacco, filled the pipe and lit it, then I was mad.

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I thought the chaplain was about the most heartless cuss I ever heard talk about killing people, but I said that seemed to me to be the best way, but a cold chill went over me as I thought of shooting anybody through the head and the chaplain pushing him down the cliff into the water.

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He said he didn't want any foolishness, or some of us would get hurt, and just then one of the Irish recruits, who had tried to skin out the back way, got jabbed in the pants by a bayonet, and he began to howl and cuss the "niggers."

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That Icarus was a silly cuss,-- Him an' his daddy Daedalus; They might 'a' knowed wings made o' wax Wouldn't stan' sun-heat an' hard whacks: I'll make mine o' luther, er suthin' er other."

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He says he's sorry he's wasted so many good cuss words on me when he's got so many relatives waiting for him to die so's they can get his money.

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I was a persistent cuss and ordered some the next year, and I put them up in fruit jars and figured I would plant them in the spring, and when the spring came they all had the dry rot.

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"Now I wonder whar that ornery, long-legged cuss is."

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One was a jovial young "cuss" of eleven months--weighted at 29lbs., and numbered 62 on the card.

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"It's that cuss that held us up!" snarled McHale, and swore viciously.

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Serve the cuss right."

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"_Halo_ cuss word--no bad word--no.

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"That's the cuss that blowed the flume," said McHale.

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"If I could only git that cuss up there against the sky line----" But the top of the cliff was fringed with bushes.

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"I've got an idea that I've seen the cuss somewheres before, but I ain't able to place him."

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"The blamed cuss is grievin' over somethin'."

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I never liked the cuss, but he's a good cowman, an' I had to hold onto him.

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But the next day--if a man happens to be ridin' in the desert, where there ain't any water, he'll cuss the sun pretty thorough--forgettin' the nice things he said about it once."

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"The damned cuss--how he did brighten up!" he mused.

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"I reckon I'm a sort of restless cuss."

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Harlan's voice, cold and expressionless, startled him: "You wasn't meanin' to cuss me?"

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"You don't mean to say that you believe the cuss done the best he could?"

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Yes, ma'am," he added with a hyprocritical grin--which he did not permit the girl to see--"I'm beginnin' to believe the cuss is on the level."

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"That I feel the same way about the cuss."

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"That little down-east cuss with the crook in his back.

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"'F I got m' hookers on him, cuss me 'f I wudden' put bumps on him bigger'n yer hull body."

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"I won't cuss another cuss, if I kin help it.

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"Poor little cuss!

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"Naw; pore little cuss is used up, that's all.

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And when they die, you go into the woods, cut down a tree, rip out the boards, make the coffin, dig the grave and lower the dead with a prayer--I'd like to cuss you, Tom Lincoln--but I can't--damn ye----!

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The young cuss, I've grown fond of him.

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Amusing cuss, Fogarty.

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"Ornery-looking cuss," he thought.

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"An' as nice spoken an' palaverin' a cuss as ever I see."

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What you tell me about that--that derned Tom Hotchkiss----" "Don't cuss, Jason--an' you a perfessin' member," urged his wife.

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How old Swinney come to hold off so was that she used to pay the cuss ten dollars or so ev'ry six months 'n git no credit fer it, an' no receipt an' no witniss, 'n he knowed the prop'ty was improving all the time.

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I s'pose I _was_ about as ord'nary, no-account-lookin', red-headed, freckled little cuss as you ever see, an' slinkin' in my manners.

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"I'm a willin' cuss.

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Bob had been repeating during the last two days the remark of the hill billy--"I'm a willin' cuss, but I ain't got no brains."

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To all other stories, this one is preferred; It's the season's best seller by far, And out at our house it's as frequently heard As cuss-words in Mexico are.

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"Pointed--the damn little cuss!"

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An' if they's anything else I can do to help you beat out any ornery cuss that'd try an' hornswaggle you out of yer claim, you can count on me doin' it!

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"'T'aint nothin' agin Mr. Bethune, 'cause he's nice to Microby," retorted the woman; "I s'pose 'cordin' to yo' idee, he'd ort to cuss her an' kick her aroun'."

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One is to accept the result attained, and go to work on it as best he can; the other, to go down to the tavern and "cuss" the court.

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I want to suggest to those who dislike the past of the Philippine question that there is more important work pressing upon you at this moment than to cuss the court.

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He had prided himself that he'd never given a cuss what other people thought of his clothes, so long as his bank account was intact.

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He fails to restrain his cuss-words for example--but then cuss-words were invented to impress fools.

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Whilst you'se dumb I'se a mind to use some cuss words on you what ol' Cap'n Jack learned me.

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Now I say, boys, with what feeling could I pour out from my heart and soul, "Oh cussa heart of my old massa--him damn impudence and his cuss assurance."

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He's a surly cuss, and violently opposed to the service.

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Every nigger in this county sixteen years old and up voted to-day--I ain't a cussing man, and I don't say it as a cuss word, but all I've got to say is, IF there BE such a thing as a d--d shame--that's it!"

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"He certainly is an arbitrary cuss," said the old woman.

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"When I get so weary of cuss-words and poaching and graft that I can't live without killing some one, I go down to Elk Lodge and smoke and read the Supervisor's London and Paris weeklies and recover my tone."

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"Let up on the cuss-words, Sam; there are ladies present," said he, nodding toward Lee.

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"She wouldn't remember me--an old cuss like me--but I've seen her with Wetherford when she was a kidlet.

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The two men nodded in token of the introduction, and the deputy went on: "You remember that old cuss that used to work for Gregg?"

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You didn't _handle_ the cuss?"

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And, if ever you did see a chop-fallen cuss going home, that was me!

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After the wedding circus yesterday, the nobs decided to cuss the cost and send several miles of telegram to California, to find out the truth about that alleged marriage."

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"OH, say, what is this fearful, wild In-cor-ri-gible cuss?"

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"This _crea-ture_ (don't say 'cuss,' my child; 'T is slang)--this crea-ture fierce is styled The Hip-po-pot-am-us.

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"H'm, that old cuss won't die that way.

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'E cuss, 'e sweer; skin 'e no fit.

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Bumbye, Màn, 'e is git so mad, 'e y-eye bin-a come red; 'e crack 'e toof, 'e do cuss.

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Steve was a funny cuss, and I was just sitting up in the blankets and laughing when a tornado hit camp.

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I heard him cuss an' I emptied my gun after him."

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The mercury might climb the tube and spill right out the top-- The sweat might ooze from every pore and off my carcass drop-- I wouldn't mind the heat at all, and keep my temper too, If it wasn't for the cuss who says-- "IS IT HOT ENOUGH FER YOU?"

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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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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.

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This is a religious cuss word.

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But say, he's so dead in earnest about it, and he talks so sensible about other things, besides appearin' so white clear through, that I can't help likin' the cuss.

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Entertainin' cuss, though."

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Poor cuss!

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As for me, I never said a whole lot to Beany, nor him to me; but I couldn't help growin' to like the cuss, because he was one of them gentle, quiet kind that you cotton to without knowin' exactly why.

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He hunted up a cozy corner on the leeward side, set me down carefully, and then said, "Now, you d--d little cuss, I guess you won't fall down here."

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If you are not a mean cuss, if you are not an ordinary low-down imitation of a man, you'll meet me up there inside of five minutes.

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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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"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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