The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John a-dreams, 67 unpregnant of my cause, 68 And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made.

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The spirit that I have seen May be the 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: I'll have good grounds More relative than this: 75 The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

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The captain seemed astonished, and first looking over his larboard shoulder, and then over his starboard shoulder, said to his officers, "_this is a damn'd queer fellow!

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They damn the "_lying yankee scrawl_," Torn from thine hand, it strews the wave,-- They force thee, trembling, to the yawl.

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Oft gem'd his eye the bursting tear, As mem'ry lingered on past joy; As oft they flung the cruel jeer, And damn'd the "_chicken liver'd boy_."

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I overheard captain Wilson say to the second in command, "these Americans are the sauciest dogs I ever saw; but damn me if I can help liking them, nor can I ever hate men who are so much like ourselves--they are _John Bull_ all over."

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He said we were a damn set of rebel yankees that lived too well, which made us saucy.

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And he added, _I had rather have the charge of five thousand Frenchmen, than FIVE HUNDRED of these sons of liberty; and yet_, said he, _I love the dogs better than I do the damn'd frog-eaters_.

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While in the act of rendering this man assistance, I heard Captain Shortland order the soldiers to kill the damn'd rascal--meaning me; immediately the soldiers came and pricked me with their bayonets, and I was forced to run to the prison at the hazard of my life, and leave the man that was wounded.

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He then ordered the soldiers to charge; and instantly observed to the commanding officer of the military--"It is no use to charge on the damn'd Yankee rascals--FIRE"--when this commenced immediately.

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Shortland replied, you damn'd son of a bitch, carry him back to the prison; and he was obliged to comply.

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_Secondly_--He having been heard to say, when the boys had picked the hole in the wall, and some time before the alarm bell was rung, while all the prisoners were quiet as usual in their respective yards--"_I'll fix the damn'd rascals directly._" _Thirdly_--His having all the soldiers on their posts, and the garrison fully prepared before the alarm bell rang.

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The conduct of Thomas George Shortland, the agent at Dartmoor Prison, is such as should "damn him to everlasting fame."

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The above extract will, I am sure, suffice to show the general tone of the khaki Rubaiyat, and be more than enough to damn my poor but honest reputation.

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Nor would his _Malice_ triumph less, To _damn_ where _God_ design'd to _bless_.

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Under the 'Merry Monarch' theatrical managers were especially anxious to please the inns, for they knew that no play would succeed which the lawyers had resolved to damn--that no actor could achieve popularity if the gallants of the Temple combined to laugh him down--that no company of performers could retain public favor when they had lost the countenance of law-colleges.

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And a damn--I beg your pardon, Uncle Edward--we poor Pacific Islanders lisp in damns for want of deans to hold us up--and a jolly good company too.

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He had never raised his mild tenor voice to damn anybody in his life.

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"Damn him!" said Doggie, in English.

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"Damn him!"

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"Damn you, Doggie!

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Damn you to little bits!

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"Damn the whole infernal place!" cried Doggie, and he heaved a mandolin tied up with disgusting peacock-blue ribbons at the bookcase, and fled from the room.

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"You are damn right!

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an ill run at play Blank'd his bold visage, and a thin third day; Swearing and supperless the hero sate, Blasphem'd his gods, the dice, and damn'd his fate; Then gnaw'd his pen, then dasht it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound!

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Works damn'd, or to be damn'd; (your father's fault.)

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Around him wide a sable army stand, A low-born, cell-bred, selfish, servile band, Prompt or to guard or stab, to saint or damn, Heav'n's Swiss, who fight for any god, or man.

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I suppose it never occurred to me such a thing could happen where the old man's money was concerned, and yet he is old, and--damn it all, that would account for her consuming rage when he put her on short commons.

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I've seen you somewhere else, in different circumstances ... not that it matters a damn, but..." "But it makes conversation," she finished the sentence for him, laughing.

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Here, show yourselves, damn you!"

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"Drop it, damn you!"

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"To extol our friends and damn our enemies."

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I wish I'd killed you, damn you!"

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You've broken my ruddy arm, damn you!"

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"Damn him!" she said fervently.

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"Yes, go to-morrow, damn you!

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"By the way," he began, "the furniture I mentioned--" "Damn the furniture!"

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"Damn you, Darley Roberts!" he stormed inadequately, "I don't want to a bit, but after all I trust you and--and like you.

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"But," I pleaded, "surely, for their own sakes, in their own interests----" "Damn their own sakes!"

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The individual doesn't care a damn about the people.

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Here are we taxed out of house and home to support their wretched armies and navies, and German soldiers marching on London, they say, with never a sign of a hand raised to oppose 'em--damn them!

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The words were indistinct until Joe's heavy voice sent down to us an angry "No damn' nonsense, I tell you.

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Children have a way of bringing themselves up, in spite of damn fool parents."

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"A girl I'd took off'n the streets and made the champion lady rider of--and was going to marry, and thought more of, damn yeh, than I did of all the rest of the world!

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"I fancy they'll wish they could swallow that damn medal, one day.

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"Damn this rain!" murmured K. gently.

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Welsh-Wangarti at the worst-an' damn all patent fuel!)

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They're just beyond the skyline, howe'er so far you cruise In a ram-you-damn-you liner with a brace of bucking screws.

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To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout; But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew, An' they done it, the Jollies-'Er Majesty's Jollies-soldier an' sailor too!

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[52] Why a man who is represented as being intensely, diabolically, wicked, but almost diabolically shrewd, should employ, and go on employing, as his instrument a blundering poltroon like the Gascon Chaudoreille, is a question which recurs almost throughout the book, and, being unanswered, is almost sufficient to damn it.

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Now I think that, if I took the trouble to do so, I could point out improbabilities in this second story sufficient to damn it on its own showing.

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They are both instances (and one at least contains an elaborate vindication) of the "novel of purpose," and they are by themselves almost enough to damn it.

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"Da--damn your play acting, boy," sputtered Lindley.

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"I did _my_ best for him--damn fool!" is the mental summary inclosed along with many a closing-out statement.

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"Damn Edith!" was on my tongue, but politeness, rather than common sense, transmuted the sentence.

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"But I don't care a damn about Schopenhauer and socialism, and I'm sure Mr. Hamilton doesn't.

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What a bunch of damn fools we were!"

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8._[126-1] Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,098   ~   ~   ~

Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I 'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!

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2._ Abuses me to damn me.

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devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,--extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 12,724   ~   ~   ~

Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,[319-2] See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

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Line 197._ Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;[327-3] Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

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Line 109._ All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.

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[319-3] May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

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i._ HORACE: _carmen secundum, line 10._ [331-2] May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

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Line 7._ May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

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l._ Would you damn your precious soul?

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Abuses me to damn me, 135. they that level at my, 163.

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Damn me, abuses me to, 135. with faint praise, 327. your precious soul, 772.

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Praise, all his pleasure, 305. and true perfection, 66. arise, let the Creator's, 302. beat high for, 519. blame love kisses, 474. blessings and eternal, 477. come to bury Cæsar not to, 113. damn with faint, 327. dispraised no small, 240.

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Precious bane, deserve the, 225. in the sight of the Lord, 823. instance of itself, sends some, 142. jewel in his head, wears a, 67. life-blood of a master-spirit, 254. nose, that 's his, 585. odours, virtue is like, 165. ointment, better than, 830. seeing to the eye, it adds a, 56. soul, damn your, 772. stone, a gift is as a, 827. stone, this, 81. to me, things most, 124. treasure of his eyesight, 104. truth is, 213.

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"You 'ave no idear, I assure you, gents, what might not 'ave 'appened, what cruel, what damn ..." B2471, who had gradually edged toward the stool on which he stood, stepped up to him and spoke softly.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,040   ~   ~   ~

Wery well, then; you stay in here until that there clock have marked off a good half-hour; arter that you may come out and do the best you can for yourself; there's plenty o' spars knockin' about the decks here, which you can lash together, and make a tip-top raft out of 'em, upon which you can go for a cruise on your own account; but if you shows your ugly head outside this here cabin before the half-hour's out, damn me if I won't lash your neck and heels together, and heave you into the middle of the fire there for'ard.

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Who the damn are--" He suddenly paused in his speech, and stood staring in astonishment.

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"You hear, damn yer!

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"Hell and damn!" cried he, with horrid emphasis, "you've kilt my dogs!" and then followed a volley of mingled oaths and threats, while the ruffian gesticulated as, if he had suddenly gone mad!

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Quick, damn yer!

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"Damn them!" cried another and a rougher voice; "don't waste talk on them.

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"An' so ye will, damn you!

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Mr. Middleton, in a certain illuminating instinct which belongs to women but only occasionally comes to some men, saw all this in a flash without any pondering and turning over and reflecting and comparing, and he said to himself under his breath, not eloquently, but well, as there came home to him the heinousness of that abhorrant social system dependent upon the religious system of the Prophet of Mecca, "Damn the emir and Mohammed and the whole damned Mohammedan business, kit and boodle!"

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"Damn him for a disloyal rat!"

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"Oh, he's a proper man, damn him!"

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As I'm telling you, I curled up good and tight, head and knees on the grub sack, Colt and dynamite handy, hair standing perfectly straight up, rope round me on the ground in a circle--I had a damn-fool notion that It mightn't be allowed to cross knotted ropes, and I shook with chills and nightmares and cramps.

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"Not to me, I think," said Miss Tennant, "but he kept mumbling to himself so I could hear: 'Slit her damn throat if she makes a move; slit it right into the backbone.'

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"Damn!" said McAllen.

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"Damn!" said Miss Tennant.

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"Splash--dash--damn, look out for that one."

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But for the desperation of our last charge the battle must have been lost----" Damn the memory of E. Hewett 78 + 10 = 88 Couldn't Put Here Lies G. Norris 78 + 10 = 88 A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted The little tombstones came thick and fast now.

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She considered a moment, and then declared impishly, "Because it doesn't seem possible that a man like you should never say 'Damn.'"

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It isn't fair to damn the whole flock because a few of the sheep are black."

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"Damn you!" he snarled under his breath.

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The man you've described--the man who came here last night--is Godwin Markham, the Conduit Street money-lender--damn him!"

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"Then he relies on his damn paper and my signature to it, and turns me out!" replied the aggrieved one.

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Get it done--damn you, I tell you, get it done!

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She didn't know my name, being new, but she recognised me by Billy's description, and sympathised with him, having a young man herself, who doesn't speak a word of English, except 'damn' and 'Three of Scotch, please.'

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"Damn the Imperial Government!" said the Dop Doctor.

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"Certainly, damn it!

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