The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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Hit was my money got thet-thar damned cuss out o' the jail-house.

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A good time comin', cuss ye!"

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"Ye'll know hit, when I once git ye cross the state line--cuss ye!

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But now he acted furious, and his last words to Bildad wuz: "I want you to have a funeral for Deacon Gansey before I see you agin, and I'll pick out the him I want you to sing at his funeral: "Believein', we rejoice, To see the cuss removed."

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Fred Thurman had been one; a "bull-headed cuss" who had the temerity to fight back when the Sawtooth calmly laid claim to the first water rights to Granite Creek, having bought it, they said, with the placer claim of an old miner who had prospected along the headwaters of Granite at the base of Bear Top.

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"He's all right--just a good-natured kinda cuss that wouldn't harm anybody."

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"LAY ABOARD OF THE OLD CUSS."

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'Lay aboard of the old cuss, I say!

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[Illustration: "LAY ABOARD OF THE OLD CUSS!"]

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"Wouldn't I like to be Un-cuss, though, and scalp Red Bull."

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He killed Un-cuss, didn't he, Henry?"

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Yes, sir; I'm going with you and I don't give a cuss who knows it.

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"'It's hell, ain't it?' said he; then added, 'the only way you can ever get that team to pull steady is to get right in and cuss 'em good; they are broke to cussing.'

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The trouble is,' continued he, 'he's got nothing broke on his ranch; his mules are not broke, his broncho cows are not broke, his wife is not broke, and the old cuss himself is not broke.'

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If you drive by cussin', then _cuss_.

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"Tom, you're the darnedest obstinate cuss I ever saw in my life.

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"Nick, you don't reckon there's a cuss on this gold, do you?

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It's sure ours, Tom, and I reckon there won't be any cuss on it as long as we can shoot straighter than anybody who wants to hold us up for it."

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To take the "cuss" off his refinement, as he put it to Barbara, he scattered modern American office bits among his luscious brown surfaces, adorned with wreaths and lictors' sheaves in gold, though to himself the wrong note was offensive.

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"Well, if you ain't the most impudent cuss I ever seen!" cried Blake, by this time almost on the point of exploding.

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He was a playful little cuss to be sure, one of those "ne'er-grow-ups" you meet about stables, and ready enough to gossip when I gave him the chance.

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"But I don't cuss when I say 'em.

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"He's a cool sort of a cuss," said Sam to Mormon.

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She wouldn't look at a rough-hided cuss like me."

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Cuss the infernal devils!"

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"Cuss that nigger," muttered the hunter.

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Cuss-fights an' shootin's an' laywayin's went on without no eend, twell finely hit come on ter be sich a hell-fired mommick thet ther two outfits met up an' fit a master battle in Claytown.

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Uncle Sam, generally supposed to be a "smart old cuss," couldn't understand it at all.

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"Thet heresy wuz invented fer the lazy cuss thet wuz too ornery to git up in the mornin' and hustle fer grub while the grass wuz wet.

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He has always been a dare-devil whose courage was so prominent as to attract the envy and malice of every "later" that whittled dry-goods boxes into splinters and used his time to cuss "the government."

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"Why, you profane little cuss," said the Butcher, frowning, "who told you to swear?"

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"If he won't go, just cuss at him!" yelled Geordie as a last piece of advice.

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"Geordie suggested 'cuss words'," grinned Aveline.

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"'Cuss him!'

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"I call you a dam' amusin' cuss, I do that.

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An' Stumpy an' that comical cuss of a Ebenezer, they be goin' to look out fer him."

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Ye kin cuss all ye like--but either paddle as I tell ye or take in yer paddle an' set quiet.

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'Then Iselmann did not produce it?' asked the Heathen Journalist, who haunted the East Side for copy, and pronounced Pinchas 'Pin-cuss.'

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'Strikes me, Pin-cuss, you're giving us Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.'

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'Must skedaddle, Pin-cuss,' he said apologetically, 'if we're to get anything into to-morrow's paper.

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You're such an unreasonable cuss!

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He's a funny cuss, but, gee, Colonel, look at that power!

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Finally he said: "'Tain't no use to cuss; that won't build yoh cabin.

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"No good to cuss.

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"Then, Pan, she began to cuss me, an' I jumps up mad, but right dignified an' says, 'Mrs. Somers, I'll require you to stop usin' profanity.'

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Seems like, if it was me, I wouldn't cuss a hoss so strong--not _this_ hoss anyway.

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"The poor old cuss!

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He was an "arbitrary cuss" and ready with gun or boot.

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I don't understand the cuss.

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Looks like I had one of two things to do--kill the cuss or jump the town."

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Nothing to warrant anything more than a cuss-word, and yet it cut me loose.

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I was goin' around now and then with a girl the old man didn't like--or rather, my old man and her old man didn't hitch--and, besides, her old man was a kind of shiftless cuss, one o' these men that raised sparrows in his beard, and so one Sunday morning, as I was polishin' up the buggy to go after Nance, who but dad should come out and growl: "'Where ye goin' with that buggy?'

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"'What _is_ the latest kink in rods?' asked the old cuss.

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I always liked the old cuss.

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Cuss, if you like.

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"Look at this!" cried Gowan--"Enough to make anybody cuss!"

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Ain't this sneaking cuss's dad either the partner or the boss of Blake?

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But of course the little brown cuss didn't know what he was meddling with."

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But a low cuss named Iago, who I bleeve wants to git Otheller out of his snug government birth, now goes to work & upsets the Otheller family in most outrajus stile.

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Mrs. Iago comes in just as Otheller has finished the fowl deed & givs him fits right & left, showin him that he has been orfully gulled by her miserble cuss of a husband.

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The cuss that is in command of this ship seems surprised to death to find out that I can comprehend the principles of his ship.

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"Cuss her," Mr. Rooney remarked, without either special interest or malice, and took his leisurely way to his hotel.

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I SHALL be off to the Highlands this fall; but cuss 'em, they han't got no woods there; nuthin' but heather, and that's only high enough to tear your clothes.

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The poor little cuss!

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"Pleasant cuss, aren't you?" said Eyer.

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He was a cantankerous cuss was Brown, an' a deal too free wi' his tongue.

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Say, I'll shoot that feller, sure--'less some interferin' cuss gits along an' does him in fust."

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I see him clear sheer out o' range on sight, which made me think he wus a mean-sperrited cuss anyway.

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Ther' wus a raw-boned cuss wi' his missis settin' on the bench front o' me, an' I guess her silk fixin's got mussed up wi' t'bacca juice someways.

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Guess some wall-eyed cuss had took her into Sacramento an' give her a feed at one of them Dago joints, wher' they disguise most everythin' wi' langwidge, an' ile, an' garlic, till you hate yourself.

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I 'lows I wus allus a mean cuss.

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"I don't care a cuss how long the old man keeps the funks," he said, with a cheery laugh.

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It's inside his rights, too, accordin' to the rooles, for him to cuss out the hold-ups, an' call 'em all the hard names of which he's cap'ble; an' stage drivers, who loves their art, spends their time between drinks practisin' new cuss words, an' inventin' onheard of epithets, so as to be ready when dooty an' o'casion calls.

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Oh, I suppose I'm a kind of a sentimental cuss, but--must be I like the feelin' of it."

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I can put it up to him in _writin'_ twice as good as Henry put it up to me by talkin', anyhow.... And I'll put an announcement in the _Herald_ that'll take the cuss off.

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She strewed the Devil's Tooth range with wheels and doubletrees and splinters and hairpins, and scattered sunshiny smiles and cuss-words and snatches of song wherever she went.

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He had invented two new cuss-words.

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Tom's a big-hearted cuss--I know Tom--tried to sell him a car, last fall.

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Joe had grit and feelin's, too, An' they wuzzent nothin' he couldn't do, 'Cept to do another harm: Ketch a possum, kill a bear, Cuss an' dance, or lead in prayer; Jump a rope, or skin a cat, Make a speech or guess a riddle, Sing a song, or play the fiddle-- No, Joe couldn't quite do that, Cause _One-Armed Joe_ had lost an arm, But that's all he couldn't do.

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"Oughter tarred an' feathered the ol' cuss," said Angus.

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"You're a grateful cuss," said Rathburn, grinning.

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An' if I had, wher's the cuss on you?

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He'll tell you jest how notions can make a cuss of any life, an' how to get shut of sech notions.

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I ain't got brain enough to hand that sort of thing around, but I'd sure ask you to say right here ther' ain't no cuss on your life, an' never was.

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You jest guess there's a cuss around chasin' glory at your expense.

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If you'd do that, I tell you that cuss'll hit the trail so quick you won't git time to see it, an' you'll bust yourself laffin' to think you ever tho't it was around your layout.

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An' before I done talkin' I'll ast you to remember that when menfolks git around insultin' a helpless gal, cuss or no cuss, he's goin' to git his med'cine good--an' from me."

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If you did you'd git right up on to your hind legs an' cuss terrible--an' you've cussed some in your time.

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In a manner o' speakin', I don't care a cuss for Zip nor his kids.

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But, cuss me, ef I ken stand to see a low-down skunk like this yer James come it over a feller-citizen o' Suffering Creek, an' it's our duty to see Zip gits thro'.

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"Say, it don't matter a cuss whether it was an ark or a barn or a ranch.

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But I'm a law-abidin' cuss myself.

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"No wonder that old cuss is so solemn.

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Grandfather old cuss named Poindexter who was defeated for Congress by but seventeen votes.

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Sentimental cuss.

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He did not at all realize that his interest in this unidentified queen of chocolates was becoming less and less of a business nature until he finally blurted in desperation, "I don't give a cuss where she peddles the sweets; but by gosh!

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"Cheerful, merry cuss you are!" retorted Jimmy.

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I'm a sociable sort of cuss myself.

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