The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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When Shove was deep down stairs, the Doctor heard, (Being much nearer the stair top,) Just here and there, a random word, Of the Soliloquies that Shove let drop;-- But, shortly, by progression, brought To contact nearer, The Doctor, consequently, heard him clearer,-- And then the fag-end of this sentence caught: Which Shove repeated warmly, tho' he shiver'd:-- "Damn Twizzle's house!

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and damn the Bell!

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And damn the fool who rang it!--Well, From all such plagues I'll quickly be deliver'd."

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For Sir Henry Clinton I do not care a damn; like a headless chicken he tumbles about New York, seeing, hearing nothing, and no mouth left to squawk with.

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Some vague idea of finding something that might aid me--some scrap of evidence I might chance on to kindle hope with--some neglected trifle to damn him and proclaim this monstrous marriage void--it was this instinct that led me into a house abhorred.

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Then a Injun he hit the darter, and he kep' a-kickin' an' a-hittin', an' old man Norris he heard the rumpus out to the barn, an' he run in, an' they pushed him out damn quick an' shot him in the legs.

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"No,--damn 'em, they've got us beat!"

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"Damn all sisters," he muttered to himself.

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"Damn them all," said Snorky, peering over the railing into the night and exposing his forehead to the cooling breeze.

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"Damn it, yes!"

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"Going to bed, damn it!" said Skippy and bolted within.

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"Damn you, you mad Irishman," said Snorky picking himself up and disentangling himself from the newspaper.

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"Oh, damn!" he groaned.

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He never cursed; he was an ecclesiastical believer that one of the chief aims of man is to keep from saying those mystic words "hell" and "damn"; but he could make "darn it" and "why in tunket" sound as profane as a gambling-den....

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I lost most of that in a little flyer on stocks--thought I'd make a killing, and got turned into lamb-chops; tried to recoup my losses on that damn flying-machine, passenger-carrying game that that ---- ---- ---- ---- let me in for.

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There's no chance for a man to-day--these damn capitalists got everything lashed down.

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These fellas are just trying to show how sensational they can be, t' say nothing of talking like they was so damn superior to the rest of us.

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_Somebody_ in this family has got to economize!--while you sit here cool and comfortable; not a thing on your mind but your hair; not a thing to worry about except thinking how damn superior you are to your husband!

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"You used to be plenty glad to go to poker parties and leg-shows with me, when I wanted to, but since you've taken to earning your living again you've become so ip-de-dee and independent that when I even suggest rushing a growler of beer you scowl at me, and as good as say you're too damn almighty good for Eddie Schwirtz's low-brow amusements.

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In our country the people would damn a river that had ice four feet thick, but in Russia they bless anything that will stand it.

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He wiggled around a little, to ease his leg, knitted his brow as the pain shot through his leg, almost said damn; then the pain let up, his face cleared off, a smile came over it, he looked at the little statesmen around him, and finally said: "Well, boys, you must not grow up with the idea that our own beloved country has no faults.

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It is seldom the _Sun_ gets on its ear, but it can say with great fervency, "Damn a man that will work poor girls like slaves, and pay them next to nothing, and spend ten thousand dollars to catch a dog-thief!"

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He looked at the ghost for a moment, and kept on lighting his cigarette, when a galloot up in the gallery said, so everybody could hear it, "He don't scare worth a damn!" and the audience went fairly wild, while the pretty girl stood there and blushed as though her heart would break.

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One of those incidents that cause a pious man to damn the whole animal creation occurred at Janesville last week.

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Her distress was horrible to Oliver Lyon but his astonishment was greater than his horror when he heard the Colonel respond to it by the words, vehemently uttered, 'Damn him, damn him, damn him!'

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'Damn him--damn him--damn him!' the Colonel repeated.

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'Damn him--damn him--damn him!' he broke out once more.

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Interruptions are annoying and should undoubtedly be abolished-don't you think so?-no reply, I beg you,-one person is enough to be speaking at a time.-I shall be done by and by, and then you may begin.-How the devil sir, did you get into this place?-not a word I beseech you-been here some time myself-terrible accident!-heard of it, I suppose?-awful calamity!-walking under your windows-some short while ago-about the time you were stage-struck-horrible occurrence!-heard of "catching one's breath," eh?-hold your tongue I tell you!-I caught somebody elses!-had always too much of my own-met Blab at the corner of the street-wouldn't give me a chance for a word-couldn't get in a syllable edgeways-attacked, consequently, with epilepsis-Blab made his escape-damn all fools!-they took me up for dead, and put me in this place-pretty doings all of them!-heard all you said about me-every word a lie-horrible!-wonderful-outrageous!-hideous!-incomprehensible!-et cetera-et cetera-et cetera-et cetera-" It is impossible to conceive my astonishment at so unexpected a discourse, or the joy with which I became gradually convinced that the breath so fortunately caught by the gentleman (whom I soon recognized as my neighbor Windenough) was, in fact, the identical expiration mislaid by myself in the conversation with my wife.

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Damn it!

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I don't care a damn what I have done.

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[_Change of tone, showing he fears this._] Damn it!

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He was heard, as he struggled towards the bank, to utter a fearful oath, calling upon God to damn his soul.

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The world was marching to the tune of youth, damn it (Mr. Clavering was beginning to feel elderly at thirty-four), but it was hard to shake out the entrenched.

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III The critics left after the second act to damn the play at leisure.

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"Damn them!

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"Damn him!" thought Clavering.

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He knows, damn him!"

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He'd rout them all, damn them.

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"No, but I'd like damn well to get her married.

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"You know damn well there wasn't.

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"Damn nonsense.

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I may be a fool but I'm not a damn fool, as James used to say.

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I'm not so damn sure I'd have tried to make myself think I was in love with James--who had about as much imagination as a grasshopper and the most infernal mannerisms.

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"Who cares a damn about pride?

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I always intend to do just as I please and damn the consequences."

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(Damn all women for cats, the best of them.

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And suppose we change the subject---- They're at it again, damn them."

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It would be the former if any one else had written the damn thing, but it'll go because it isn't time yet for the Clavering luck to break.

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He's a damn good-looking chap, too, and has that princely distinction peculiar to Austrians.

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The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash, And the lust awoke to kill, to kill ... then the music stopped with a crash, And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way; In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway; Then his lips went in in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was calm; And, "Boys," says he, "you don't know me, and none of you care a damn; But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I'll bet my poke they're true, That one of you is a hound of hell ... and that one is Dan McGrew."

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[_Drearily._] Damn Cynthia K!-- FIDDLER.

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In the frenzy of that last hour of trial, it seemed as if he was contending, not with man and the world, but with the devil, who was using both to make this bitter irony of his position--who was bribing him with worldly glory that he might damn his soul forever.

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He drew hisself up on the ould woman tremenjous, and studdied hisself agen the door, and 'No,' says he; 'I'm drunk,' says he, 'God knows it,' says he, 'and for what man knows I don't care a damn--_I'll walk!_' Then away he went down the street past the Bishop, with his hat a-one side, and his hair all through-others, tacking a bit with romps in the fetlock joints, but driving on like mad."

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"Damn the fortune," said Davy, under his breath.

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They would go back, of course, when they were better, and had to do so, but if anybody said he _wanted_ to go back he was telling a damn'd lie.

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I doubted if "deepening pain" could be charged with the whole burden of Coleridge's constitutional procrastination, and to this objection Rossetti replied: Line eleven in my first reading was "deepening _sloth_;" but it seemed harsh--and--damn it all!

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There are men, no doubt, who in such an emergency would have been able to damn the breeches-maker's impudence, and to have walked at once out of the house.

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"No, my friend," said he, "we will not damn them.

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I for one will damn no man.

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"Damn it all!" said Ralph, turning round again in the other direction.

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"Damn your money!" said the breeches-maker, walking out of the room.

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He said, "It's a damn lie.

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For instance,-to express woods, not on a plain, but clothing a hill, which overlooks a valley, or dell, or river, or the sea,-the trees rising one above another, as the spectators in an ancient theatre,-I know no other word in our language (bookish and pedantic terms out of the question), but _hanging_ woods, the _sylvæ superimpendentes_ of Catullus; yet let some wit call out in a slang tone,-"the gallows!" and a peal of laughter would damn the play.

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This belongs to human nature as such, independently of associations and habits from any particular rank of life or mode of employment; and in this consists Shakespeare's vulgarisms, as in Macbeth's- "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon!"

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_Ib._- "The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps Out of my weakness, and my melancholy (As he is very potent with such spirits), Abuses me to damn me."

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I think Tyrwhitt's reading of "life" for "wife"- "A fellow almost damn'd in a fair _wife_"- the true one, as fitting to Iago's contempt for whatever did not display power, and that intellectual power.

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Such a scene as this was enough to damn a new play; and Nick Stuff is worse still,-most abominable stuff indeed!

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"Not a God-damn a your money go in my drawer, you hear?

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"Not a God-damn a fun at Ericson's.

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Nils dropped one word, "Damn!" and whipped after her; but she leaned forward in her saddle and fairly cut the wind.

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Why can't they let me alone, damn it!

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"Damn 'em shoot 'em down!"

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Damn him!

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"Damn!" raged the admiral, "what a brutal temper I have.

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His servant said to him, 'We'll be in Krugersdorp to-morrow, sorr, and I'll be able to get yiz some claning matherials,' to which his weary master replied, 'I don't care a damn whether I'm clean or whether I'm dirty.'

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Sullen silences smother irritability, but--" he added in a peculiarly pleasant voice, "I expect we are likely to start killing each other if somebody doesn't get us out of here very damn quick."

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"Dirty beasts," he muttered, stumping and stumbling among the stunted fir trees; "some day they'll bite some of these damn fools who say they can't bite.

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Ross rifles, too--not a shot at a Boche since the damn war began!"

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"Then talk, damn you!

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You're just talkin' to me like there wasn't nobody else onto this damn planet excep' us two guys.

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I was a damn fool and I'm doin' time like any souse what the bulls pinch.

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I may be unfortunit; I'm a poor damn fool an' I know it.

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I've settled the reckoning down in the gas there--their own green gas, damn them!

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Assuming the knowing and supercilious look of an acknowledged connoisseur, he approached the picture, prepared to cavil and find fault, or, at best, to damn with faint praise.

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Somebody was playing _Green Hills_ again, damn them.

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He said: "He found a dam by a mill site, but he didn't find any mill by a damn sight."

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He's been damn good to me--and to you fellows too," he added fiercely, while his lower lip quivered.

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"They all the time said I was nuts, building that damn thing.

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He counted the strokes, and when it had finished looked towards the clock and said, 'Damn you!

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The King's indolence is so great that it is next to impossible to get him to do even the most ordinary business, and Knighton is still the only man who can prevail on him to sign papers, &c. His greatest delight is to make those who have business to transact with him, or to lay papers before him, wait in his anteroom while he is lounging with Mount Charles or anybody, talking of horses or any trivial matter; and when he is told, 'Sir, there is Watson waiting,' &c., he replies, 'Damn Watson; let him wait.'

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O'Connell and Shiel were both at the levee; the former had been presented in Ireland, so had not to be presented again, but the King took no notice of him, and when he went by said to somebody near him, 'Damn the fellow!

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But when he had languished for a long time in France perhaps, notwithstanding a first favourable reception, sooner or later eating the exile's bitter bread--exasperation and despair must have so wrought in him that he began to traffic with the "auld enemy" of England, and even put his hand to a base treaty, by which his brother was to be dethroned and he himself succeed to the kingdom by grace of the English king--a stipulation which Albany must have well known would damn him for ever with his countrymen.

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"By damn, yes!"

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To calm his racing, startled heart beat and damn off the adrenaline that permeated and burnt through thought to the rigid ready-to-respond posture of his muscles in a spreading ethereal of flaming gas, he made the dark omen jocular.

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