The 17,250 occurrences of damn
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The Priest well knew what Pow'r, and what Controul He had usurp'd o're ev'ry _Baalite_'s Soul, That such a Prince must their God's Cause pursue, And do whatever they would have him do; Else from his Throne he should be curs'd and damn'd: For _Baal_'s High-Priest, a Right t' all Crowns had claim'd.
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The _Pharasees_ they curse, as Sons of _Cham,_ And all dissenting _Jews_ to Hell they damn.
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_Bibbai_, whose name won't in Oblivion rot, For his great pains to hide the _Baalites_ Plot, Must be remembred here: A Scribe was he, Who daily damn'd in Prose the _Pharisee_.
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On these he wrote in _Earnest_ and in _Jeast_, Till he grew mad, and turn'd into a Beast, _Zattue_ his Zanie was, Buffoon, and Fool, Who turn'd Religion into Ridicule: Jeer'd at the Plot, did _Sanhedrims_ abuse, Mock'd Magistrates, damn'd all Sects of the _Jews_.
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I think I heard the disappointed ranger mutter: "Damn right we don't!"
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Then grasping me by the throat, he tried to force me over the taffrail, and cried, exultingly, as he felt me give way under his brute strength, "Now, you damn fool, shoot!" at the same time drawing his knife to strike.
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The wench had a friend in the crowd--a man who got her away--damn him.
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"Damn Sally Salisbury," cried the fine gentleman in a fury.
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I went to her Old Bailey hovel to-day--gad, I've got the smell of the cooked meats and boiled greens in my nostrils at this minute--and damn it, she said the girl had run away.
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Damn His Majesty King George, say I."
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Bustle, damn you."
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A damn good stroke of business, all right," I finished, feeling mighty sore at myself.
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If I hadn't known him so well I might have thought he didn't care a damn what we found at Stony Crossing, that he was as unmoved as the two case-hardened troopers who rode with us.
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"Why, damn it!"
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"Who issued orders for our arrest on this damn fool charge?
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That was really what started Piegan in the smuggling business--a desire to play even, after getting what he called a "damn rough deal."
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"Damn him!
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"Damn it, we're just as far behind as ever."
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But say, damn if I see anything among that layout that resembles a female.
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And what is more, you cannot be ignorant that in so doing you damn your own soul."
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I thought--damn you all!-- you laid yourselves out to breed seamen!
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"The braces, my lord--your Lordship has them forepart behind, if I may suggest--" "Damn the braces!" swore the old gentleman.
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"Damn the wig!"
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'Then you've had a damn quick passage,' answers Cap'n Crang, an' turns on his heel.
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Secondly, the God of the Old Testament, the God of most of the creeds has been taken away, that God who was jealous, who was partial, who was angry; who built a little world, and called it good, and then inside of a few days saw it slip out of his control into the hands of the devil, either because he could not help it or did not wish to; who watched this world develop for a little while, and then, because it did not go as he wanted it to, had to drown it, and start over again; the God who in the Old Testament told the people that slavery was right, provided they did not enslave the members of their own nation, but only those outside of it; the God who indorsed polygamy, telling a man that he was at liberty to have just as many wives as he wanted and could obtain, and that he was free to dispose of them by simply giving them a little notice and telling them to quit; the God who indorsed hypocrisy and lying on the part of his people; the God who sent a little light on one little people along one edge of the Mediterranean, and left all the rest of the world in darkness; the God who is to damn all of these people who were left in darkness because they did not know that of which they never had any chance to hear; the God who is to cast all his enemies into the pit, trampling them down, as Edwards pictures so horribly to us, in his hate for ever and ever.
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Anybody else, none of his damn business.
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"I damn well dare check anything and anybody I happen to be personally interested in," he stormed.
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Damn him!
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"You damn fool!"
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He probably realised that you'd be too idiotic to use the money except as a means to bring about the millennium, and so he said to himself 'I'll have to do something to keep the damn' fool from starving.'
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I suppose it is right and proper and natural that you both should go on loving each other to the end of time without realising the joys of-" "Don't try to argue the-" "It's right that you should let that glorious, perfect young creature wither and droop with time, grow old without-oh, Lordy, what a damn fool you are, Brady!
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"Say it, damn you, Simmy!
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"Damn!" he said.
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"Damn the whole business!" he said.
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An' unless they 'ung yer--which it ain't 'umanly possible to 'ang a Chink--it wouldn't be the last--an' not by a damn long way ..._an'_ not by a damn long way!"
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All damn lie," muttered the Chinaman.
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"Damn!" cried Sowerby--"if it isn't Dr.
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Damn: a Book of Calumny.
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"History is just one damn crossroads after another."
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"Damn me if I knew you, Fortesque," he exclaimed cordially.
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"See here, damn you!" he burst out.
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"Damn the parole.
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Luck favored me, but, damn him, he jumped into me like a fighting cock, struck me in the face, and taunted me into meeting him there and then."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,274 ~ ~ ~
But damn it, I don't know any too much about what is up myself.
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"You'll find out fer yerself, Mister," he answered sullenly, "an' maybe damn quick too."
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"Damn her love!"
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But-- "Indeed, indeed, repentance oft before I swore; but was I sober when I swore?" is equally successful in the same sense as-- "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer And without sneering teach the rest to sneer."
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* * * * * "We damn near lost the war," the man in the black jacket and striped trousers said, "but for once, we won the peace.
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"Take the damn thing, quick!
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"Damn the brute!" said Lord Ronald faintly.
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_Reynolds._ [Illustration: _Gainsborough_ THE CHILDREN AND THE BUTTERFLY _Mansell_] MODERN PAINTING CCXXII ON REYNOLDS Damn him!
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--as the King of Finland laid a fatherly hand on Sir Peter's sleeve--"I'll not be made responsible for this damn--" He choked, sputtered, then bowed to the horrified Countess, asking pardon, and declaring that he yielded to nobody in respect for the gentler sex.
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'That damn ocean is monotonous, ain't it?'
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And: "It is all very well to say 'damn the torpedoes,'" said Secretary Daniels, in discussing this point, "but a navy cannot invite annihilation by going into mined harbors, and ships can do little or nothing against coast fortifications equipped with 14-inch guns.
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Watts looked imploringly at the recruiting officer and blubbered in wrath: "Yes, damn you--yea; that's right.
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I wrote to his damn Yankee government that I was needing the money last winter to go East on the aid committee and would replace it, and now that I'm going out to-morrow to die for his damn Yankee government, he has the impertinence to come in here and say I stole that money.
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"Shot in the back--damn it, shot in the back!" he screamed, as he jumped into the air.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 764 ~ ~ ~
"Well, they're all givin' you somethin', Johnnie: Watts here has given a bit of a posey in verse; and my friend, General Hendricks, I'm told, has given you a hundred-dollar note; and General Philemon Ward has given you Wendell Phillips' orations; and your sweetheart--God bless her, whoever she is--will be givin' ye the makins' of a broken heart; and your mother'll be givin' you her blessin'--and the saints' prayers go with 'em; and me, havin' known your father before you and the mother that bore you, and seein' her rub the roses off her cheeks tryin' to keep your ornery little soul in your worthless little body, I'll give you this sentiment to put in your pipe and smoke: John Barclay, man--if they ever be's a law agin damn fools, the first raid the officers should make is on the colleges.
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"What a damn disreputable business your commerce is, anyway!
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He pulled himself together and gripped his chair as he said, "Not by a damn sight he ain't.
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You damn cold-nosed Yankee Brahmins--you have Faith and you have Hope, but you have no more Charity than a sausage-grinder."
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General, the more I live with you damn Yankees and fight for your flag and die for your country, sir, the more astonished I am at your limited and provincial knowledge of the United States language.
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"There you go, Gabe Carnine; since you've moved to town and got to be president of a bank, you're mighty damn scared about making paupers.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,554 ~ ~ ~
It was five drinks in Jake Dolan that stopped the medley, when the drinks aforesaid inspired him to rise grandly from his chair at the front of the hall at an installation of officers of Henry Schnitzler Post of the Grand Army, and stalk majestically out of the room, while the singing was in progress, saying as he turned back at the door, before thumping heavily down the stairs, "Well, I'm getting pretty damn tired of that!"
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For Barclay was a man of enthusiasms, who occasionally liked to mouth a hard jaw-breaking "damn," and who followed his instincts with womanly faith in them--so that he became known as a man of impulse.
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Then he sneered at me--you know the supercilious way he has, the damn miserable hound-pup way he has of grinning at you,--and says, 'I regarded it as a loan, even though you seemed to regard it as a bargain.'
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Suddenly tears flushed into the dimmed eyes of the colonel, and he cried, through a smile, "Bob Hendricks, I believe in my soul you're a liar--a damn liar, sir, but, boy, you're a thoroughbred--God bless you, you're a thoroughbred."
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The sheriff he's run, and so has the deputy; they can't stand the boy crying, and damn it to hell, Mart, I can't, either; so I just left 'em in the office and locked the door and come around to see you.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,968 ~ ~ ~
'Well,' says I, 'it amounts to the same thing; she can't pay her fine, and that damn reform judge, wanting to make a record as a Spartan, has committed her to jail till it is paid!'
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"Then, damn 'em, let 'em go on with their commissioners and boards and legislative committees; they can't catch us.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,169 ~ ~ ~
He came in at nine o'clock to-night, and the damn Pop judge put his bail at $15,999 to cover his alleged shortage, and the stinker won't accept us old boys on the bond--Phil and Watts and Os and the Company 'C' boys I could get before the judge went to bed, and Gabe Carnine, the gut, would not sign--would not sign old Mart's bond, sir, and I hope to be in hell with a fishpole some day poking him down every time his slimy fingers get on the rim of the kettle.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,264 ~ ~ ~
'Well,' says I, 'I'm going to ask him to blow his damn horn under my window every morning at five o'clock,' I says, 'and then I'm going to get up and poke my head out of the window and say: "Mister, you can get me up in the army, but on this occasion would you be obliging enough to go to hell"!'
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,715 ~ ~ ~
He chuckled a moment, and then his face changed as he said, "Neal, I wish you'd go into the mail room and see if the noon mail has anything in it from that damn scoundrel who's trying to start a cracker factory in St. Louis--I hate to bother to smash him right now when we're so busy."
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But it so happened that the damn scoundrel thought better of his intention and took fifty thousand for his first thought, and Neal Ward, being one of the component parts of an engaged couple, went ahead being sensible about it.
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Neal Ward, sitting in his room, heard Barclay say: "What kind of a damn bunco game were you fellows putting up on me in 1900?
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Barclay threw back his head and roared: "Naw--naw--it isn't that; it's the damn newspapers.
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I could finance a scheme to buy out the meat trust and the lumber trust, and I could control every line of advertising that goes into the damn magazines--and I could buy the paper trust too, and that would fix 'em.
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There was a silence when the stranger went, and Barclay, whose face had grown red, cried, "Damn 'em--damn 'em all--kick a man when he is down!"
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"Damn cheerful you are, Watts," returned Barclay.
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"The people--the people," snapped Barclay, impatiently, "the people take my money for bridges and halls and parks and churches and statues and then call me a murderer--oh, damn the people!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,768 ~ ~ ~
But you're a coward too, Johnnie; sitting in your own house while your horse-thief friend used your cellar to work out the disgrace of the man who gave his good name to save your own--that was a fine trick--a damn fine trick, wasn't it, Mr. Barclay?"
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They know what I know, that the damn people are here to be skinned."
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Barclay gazed at the young man abstractedly for a minute that seemed interminable, and then broke out, "Damn it, Neal, I can't propose to you--but that's about what I've got you out here to-night for."
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It means something, I am not sure what; something freshening, cleaning, washing out, taking in hand, not caring-a-damn-what-you-think, doing-its-duty, robust, noisy, moral, wet.
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Damn it all (excuse me) what can one be but frivolous about serious things?
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After an instant's thought, Gilbert headed his paper with the name of a prominent Jew and wrote: I am fond of Jews Jews are fond of money Never mind of whose I am fond of Jews Oh, but when they lose Damn it all, it's funny.
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"'Damn you!'
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'Damn-fool superstition,' he muttered to me time and again.
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'It was Rounds, damn him, that killed me.'
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"Oh, damn his yellow soul, I'll marry her!"
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She knew how Stires felt on the subject--a damn, dirty ship-chandler no self-respecting officer deals with--" "None of that!"
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"I damn ye!" he cried, raising his arms wildly.
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"Yes, by the Lord, I damn ye up and down.
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--"Neither do I damn thee: go, and sin no more."
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You watch me all the same, all the same, you damn--" The reason I didn't up-anchor and get out that night was that, when I came aboard I discovered not far from my berth the unobtrusive loom of that Dutch gunboat, arrived for a "look-in" at last.
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Got to run right off and show it to the whole damn length and breadth of the South Seas.
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The best lives have thought little of themselves, but they have lived for the ends of the soul, to help men to better living, to save them from the things that blight and damn the soul.
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