The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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Among the saddest in the den of woe, Most sad; among the damn'd, most deeply damn'd."

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Here I found two famous Volumes in Chyrurgery, being an exact Description of the Circulation of the Blood, discovered long before King Solomon's Allegory of the Bucket's going to the Well; with several curious Methods by which the Demonstration was to be made so plain, as would make even the worthy Doctor B------ himself become a Convert to his own Eye-sight, make him damn his own Elaborate Book, and think it worse Nonsence than ever the Town had the Freedom to imagine.

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The further fatal Consequences of these unhappy Defects in Nature, where she has damn'd a Man to Wit and Rhyme, has been loss of Inheritance, Parents being aggravated by the obstinate young Beaus, resolving to be Wits in spight of Nature, the wiser Head has been obliged to Confederate with Nature, and with-hold the Birth-right of Brains, which otherwise the young Gentleman might have enjoy'd, to the great support of his Family and Posterity.

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I desir'd no better Acquaintance in my new Travels, than this new Sociate; never was there such a Couple of People met; he was the Man in the Moon to me, and I the Man in the Moon to him; he wrote down all I said, and made a Book of it, and call'd it, News from the World in the Moon; and all the Town is like to see my Minutes under the same Title; nay, and I have been told, he published some such bold Truths there, from the Allegorical Relations he had of me from our World: That he was call'd before the Publick Authority, who could not bear the just Reflections of his damn'd Satyrical way of Writing; and there they punisht the Poor Man, put him in Prison, ruin'd his Family; and not only Fin'd him Ultra tenementum, but expos'd him in the high Places of their Capital City, for the Mob to laugh at him for a Fool: This is a Punishment not unlike our Pillory, and was appointed for mean Criminals, Fellows that Cheat and Couzen People, Forge Writings, Forswear themselves, and the like; and the People, that it was expected would have treated this Man very ill, on the contrary Pitied him, wisht those that set him there placed in his room, and exprest their Affections, by loud Shouts and Acclamations, when he was taken down.

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Here we law the State of the War among Nations; Here was the French giving Sham-thanks for Victories they never got, and some body else adressing and congratulating the sublime Glory of running away: Here was Te Deum for Sham-Victories by Land; and there was Thanksgiving for Ditto by Sea: Here we might see two Armies fight, both run away, and both come and thank GOD for nothing: Here we saw a Plan of a late War like that in Ireland; there was all the Officers cursing a Dutch General, because the damn'd Rogue would fight, and spoil a good War, that with decent Management and good Husbandry, might have been eek't out this Twenty Years; there was whole Armies hunting two Cows to one Irishman, and driving of black Cattle declar'd the Noble End of the the War: Here we saw a Country full of Stone Walls and strong Towns, where every Campaign, the Trade of War was carried on by the Soldiers, with the same Intriguing as it was carried on in the Council Chambers; there was Millions of Contributions raised, and vast Sums Collected, but no Taxes lessen'd; whole Plate Fleets surpriz'd, but no Treasure found; vaft Sums lost by Enemies, and yet never found by Friends, Ships loaded with Volatile Silver, that came away full, and gat home empty; whole Voyages made to beat No body, and plunder Every body; two Millions robb'd from the honest Merchants, and not a Groat sav'd for the honest Subjects: There we saw Captains Lifting Men with the Governments Money, and letting them go again for their own; Ships fitted out at the Rates of Two Millions a Year, to fight but once in Three Years, and then run away for want of Powder and Shot.

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The ease with which this Prince got over so considerable a Point as this, made him begin to be too credulous and to perswade himself that the Solunarian Church-Men were really in earnest, as to their Pageant-Doctrin of Non-Resistance, and that as he had seen them bear with strange extravagancies on the Crolian Part, they were real and in earnest when they Preach'd that Men ought to obey for Conscience's sake, whatever hardship were impos'd upon them, and however unjust, or contrary to the Laws of God, Nature, Reason, or their Country; what Principle in the World could more readily prompt a Prince to attempt what he so earnestly coveted, as this zealous Prince did the restoring the Abrogratzian Faith, for since he had but two sorts of People to do with; one he had crush'd by force, and had brought the other to profess it their Religion, their Duty, and their Resolution to bear every thing he thought fit to Impose upon them, and that they should be Damn'd if they resisted, the Work seem'd half done to his Hand.

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The Cortez of the Nation being at the same time assembled join'd in Censuring the Book, and thus the Party blindly damn'd their own Principles for meer shame of the practice, not daring to own the thing in publick which they had underhand profest, and the fury of all Parties fell upon the poor Author.

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The hot Men of the Solunarian Church damn'd him without Bell, Book, or Candle; the more Moderate pitied him, but lookt on as unconcern'd: But the Crolians, for whom he had run this Venture, us'd him worst of all; for they not only abandon'd him, but reproacht him as an Enemy that would ha' them destroy'd: So one side rail'd at him because they did understand him, and the other because they did not.

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All this confirm'd the first Man's Opinion that he was a Crolian in Disguise, or an Emissary employ'd by them to ruin the Project of their Enemies; for these Crolians are damn'd cunning People in their way, and they have Mony enough to engage Hirelings to their side.

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They damn Moderation in order to Peace and Union, set the House on Fire to save it from Desolation, Plunder to avoid Persecution, and consolidate Things in order to their more immediate Dissolution.

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It put them upon revolving the State of their own Case, and comparing it with their Enemies; upon Examining on what foot they stood, and tho' Establish'd upon a firm Law, yet a violent Party pushing at the overthrow of that Establishment, and dissolving the legal Right they had to their Liberty and Religion; it put them upon duly weighing the nearness of their approaching Ruin and Destruction, and finding things run so hard against them, reflecting upon the Extremity of their Affairs, and how if they had not drawn in the High Church-Champions to damn the Projects of their own Party, by running at such desperate Extremes as all Men of any Temper must of course abhor, they had been undone; truly now they began to consider, and to consult with one another what was to be done.

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damn the ostler!--would you impose upon the gentleman's generosity?--[_Pushes him out_.]

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Damn my eldest brother.

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damn him for a coxcomb!--But let's accost him.--[_Coming forward_.]

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Damn him!

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"I don't care a damn," he shouted, so that all the women heard him.

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The baron, annoyed at this hedging, exclaimed angrily: "Answer frankly, damn it!

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I haven't eaten, damn it!"

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"Of course I love her, damn it, you know!"

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XIX When he had lighted a cigarette and begun to smoke in her face it was as if he had struck with the match the note of some queer clumsy ferment of old professions, old scandals, old duties, a dim perception of what he possessed in her and what, if everything had only--damn it!--been totally different, she might still be able to give him.

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A fellow must behave like a gentleman, damn it, dear good Mrs. Wix.

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I sent him away, blew out the candle--and, damn it all, the dog was there again and it was a dog right enough: one could hear it breathing, biting its coat, looking for fleas....

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"Damn the old windbag!" said the marquis.

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"Damn the knife that made the mischief," said Lady Florimel.

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"Damn you!

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"Damn her eyes!

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He would go and see what the rascal had come bothering about--alone though, for he could not endure the sight of the fisher fellow--damn him!

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"I know: you think I 'm not fit to die; and, damn it!

~ ~ ~ Sentence 9,072 ~ ~ ~

"Nearly well," he answered; "but those cursed carrion crows are set upon killing me--damn their souls!"

~ ~ ~ Sentence 485 ~ ~ ~

Damn it, old Cloud, that's unreasonable, to say the least of it."

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"Now, look here!" he howled, "I don't know who the gory sheol you are, except that you're a gory lunatic, and what's more, I don't care a damn.

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I call this damn poor country."

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He never seed the damn prop, never chased no cow with it, and wants to know what's the use of always accusing him.

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"Damn you for a hass!" snarled Jim Bullock between his teeth, giving the galoot a vicious dig in the side with his elbow.

~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,340 ~ ~ ~

I've been a fool, I know, but I've paid for it; and now there's nothing for it but to tramp, tramp, tramp for your tucker, and keep tramping till you get old and careless and dirty, and older, and more careless and dirtier, and you get used to the dust and sand, and heat, and flies, and mosquitoes, just as a bullock does, and lose ambition and hope, and get contented with this animal life, like a dog, and till your swag seems part of yourself, and you'd be lost and uneasy and light-shouldered without it, and you don't care a damn if you'll ever get work again, or live like a Christian; and you go on like this till the spirit of a bullock takes the place of the heart of a man.

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Damn the world, say I!"

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Me and Blanker---" Disgusted voice from a bunk: "Oh, that's damn rot!

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Opinions such as those I have quoted, respecting the duties and the responsibilities of governors, are the commonplaces of modern Liberalism; and Priestley's views on Ecclesiastical Establishments would, I fear, meet with but a cool reception, as altogether too conservative, from a large proportion of the lineal descendants of the people who taught their children to cry "Damn Priestley;" and with that love for the practical application of science which is the source of the greatness of Birmingham, tried to set fire to the doctor's house with sparks from his own electrical machine; thereby giving the man they called an incendiary and raiser of sedition against Church and King, an appropriately experimental illustration of the nature of arson and riot.

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"On the walls of houses, etc., and especially where I usually went, were to be seen, in large characters, 'MADAN FOR EVER; DAMN PRIESTLEY; NO PRESBYTERIANISM; DAMN THE PRESBYTERIANS,' etc., etc.

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; and, at one time, I was followed by a number of boys, who left their play, repeating what they had seen on the walls, and shouting out, ' Damn Priestley; damn him, damn him, for ever, for ever, ' etc., etc.

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Just as Seth Stevens began with "Damn the consequences," the Elder interrupted him: "Young man," he said to the lieutenant, "you'd better go back to Wichita.

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"Damn the boys," exclaimed Charley vehemently, "they're all alike out here.

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Crawl, damn ye!

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Then he was tripped up and thrown forwards amid a storm of, "Crawl, damn ye--crawl!"

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"Damn your impudence--'at I sud say't!--what has he to do with my affairs?

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And, seeing upon the water, where it reflected the wall, a pallid smile responding to the smiling sky, I cried aloud in my enthusiasm, brandishing my furled umbrella: "Damn, damn, damn, damn!"

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We must become republican England as well as republican France (damn France, she is the root of all evil and the branch of no good).

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The half-breed muttered: "THAT score is settled-damn you."

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Now there was a voice-a very low voice-Injun Joe's: "Damn her, maybe she's got company-there's lights, late as it is."

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It is perfectly silly to begin to damn us before it has been shown that our statements are baseless or reckless.

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"Then take your revenge, damn you!" he shouted back.

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In another column of the same issue it is told that, "A person last night in the gallery of Drury Lane House calling frequently in a boisterous manner for the tune of 'Britons, Strike Home!' was immediately silenced by the appropriate observation of another at some distance from him, 'Why, damn it, they have, haven't they?'"

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Did not Lieutenant Forstner, the notorious centre of the Zabern Affair, promise a reward to the first one of his men who in case of trouble should shoot one "of those damn Social Democrats"?

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"Damn this sergeant of ours.

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Damn it, when was Knowles killed?"

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"Damn it, shut up!" said Morton, without turning his head.

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Of course, if we advance to-morrow the body would have been--" "Damn you," said Lean, "shut your mouth!"

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Damn niggers work for twenty-five an' thirty cents a day.

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"Damn you," he shrieked loudly.

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Why, it does seem to me that of all the childish, idiotic, chuckle-headed, chicken-livered superstitions that ev-oh, damn Merlin!"

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damn it, Smirke, you must be mad--she's seven or eight years older than you are."

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"What I will not have, sir, is that you should use my name, or couple it with yours.--Damn him, Strong, why don't you keep him in better order?

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"Damn it, sir!" cried out Pendennis, fiercely.

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Ask you all round of course, and damn the expense."

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"Damn him--kill him."

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And the very servants begin to laugh--the damn scoundrels!

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And from this we turn to a very different form in the "Altaforte," which is perhaps the best sestina that has been written in English: Damn it all!

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1), be at peace with all men:-- "But he who shall my temper try-- 'Twere best to touch me not, say I-- Shall rue it, and through all the town My verse shall damn him with renown."

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"Damn the body, he must have been a tailor!--Charge, my fine fellows, and throw the constables out of the window, and the stewards after them.

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"There, my boy, that's the way to lay out a warp--right in the wind's eye, Tom--we shall fairly beat those lubbers who are tacking in the stream--nothing like warping in the dead water near the shore--mark that down, Tom--never beat in a tideway when you can warp up along shore in the dead water--Damn the judge's ice" (hiccup) "he has poisoned me with that piece he plopped in my last whitewash of Madeira.

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"Anniseed--damn anniseed--no, no--obliged--mucho, mucho but brandy plaino, that is simple of itself, if you please--that's it Lord love you, my dear madam--may you live a thousand years though."

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"Now, Hamilton, we've got you, damn you."

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"Damn you," rejoined Chester, "I know you; you were once a slave in Tennessee."

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Such a condescension would damn an honest man, would put modesty to the blush.

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a rogue, a damnable thief, a negro thief, an outbreaker, a criminal in the sight of all honest men; ... the mother, too, of a pusillanimous son, who permitted me to curse and damn you in Sylvania!

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Mrs. Carlyle had her troubles and her sorrows, as have most women who live under the same roof with a man of creative genius; but of one thing we may be quite sure, that she would have been the first, to use her own expressive language, to require God 'particularly to damn' her impertinent sympathizers.

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At first he took it for a sea-bird; but, looking at it more steadfastly, he suddenly jumped up, exclaiming, "damn my blood, what's that?"

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"Damn!" said Mr. Polly, and down went his float and he flicked up a victim to destruction and took it off the hook.

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"Damn silly!"

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But you'd have nobody to damn after dinner, darling, if they all died out.

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Then George will (_hitting him on the shoulder)_ thump you on the back and say gruffly (_crossing to_ L.), "You're a good fellow, Brian, a damn good fellow," and he'll blow his nose very loudly, and say, "Confound this cigar, it won't draw properly."

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Well, if you really want to know, the men would say, "Gad, she's a fine woman; I don't wonder he sticks to her," and the women would say, "I can't _think_ what he sees in her to stick to her like that," and they'd both say, "After all, he may be a damn fool, but you can't deny he's a sportsman."

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She is giving him his last chance to say "Damn Telworthy; you're mine!"

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Is any thing necessary but common sense to perceive, at least, that it is folly and madness for men to hate and damn one another about unintelligible opinions concerning a being of this kind?

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How can we, without being alarmed, look upon a God, who is reputed to be barbarous enough to damn us?

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Yet, divines gravely assure us, that a just God will damn without pity all those, to whom he has not given grace to know the Christian religion!

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No mortal seriously believes, that his conduct can damn him.

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Damn me if I don't rub 'em up and come and have a ding with 'em at these rebels.

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Damn 'em.

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"Damn the market!

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"Then damn my Lord Brocton!

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Damn his nobility!

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I damn everything and everybody that don't suit me.

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Damn you, too, and I'll fight you when we meet again.

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