The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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"Well when 'twas all over, I paid the undertaker's bills an' iverythin' like that, an' then the very day I left I went to that damn thief, beggin' your pardon, an' paid off that mortgage in good, hard cash.

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"Damn charity," he concluded, abruptly.

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Be thou a Spirit of Health, or Goblin damn'd; Bring with thee Airs from Heav'n, or Blasts from Hell; Be thy Events wicked or charitable; Thou com'st in such a questionable Shape That I will speak to thee.

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Damn Wych Street!

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It was past midnight when he suddenly muttered a low "Damn!" and walked to the bureau.

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"What you damn well need, Dickie, old son, is life in the raw.

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How I sympathise with you on the dull duty of a reviewer, and heartily damn with you Ned Evans and the Prosodist.

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I had an end in view; I wished to make you reject the poem, only as being discordant with the other; and, in subservience to that end, it was politically done in me to over-pass, and make no mention of merit which, could you think me capable of _overlooking_, might reasonably damn for ever in your judgment all pretensions in me to be critical.

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And this is the cuckoo that has had the audacity to foist upon me ten buttons on a side and a black velvet collar--A damn'd ninth of a scoundrel!

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To quit this damn'd subject, and to relieve you from two or three dismal yawns, which I hear in spirit, I here conclude my more than commonly obtuse letter; dull up to the dulness of a Dutch commentator on Shakspeare.

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Damn virtue that's thrust upon us; it behaves itself with such constraint, till conscience opens the window and lets out the goose.

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In the midst of this infernal torture, Conscience (and be damn'd to her), is barking and yelping as loud as any of them.

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Damn you, I was beginning to forgive you and believe in earnest that the lugging in of my proper name was purely unintentional on your part, when looking back for further conviction, stares me in the face _Charles Lamb of the India House.

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I had got my finger away, nor could he well have bit me with his damn'd big mouth, which would have been certain death in five minutes.

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He opened his damn'd mouth, when he made at me, as wide as his head was broad.

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I could not resist so facile and moderate a demand, so scribbled out another, omitting sundry things, such as the witch story, about half of the forest scene (which is too leisurely for story), and transposing that damn'd soliloquy about England getting drunk, which, like its reciter, stupidly stood alone, nothing prevenient or antevenient, and cleared away a good deal besides; and sent this copy, written _all out_ (with alterations, &c., _requiring judgment_) in one day and a half!

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Dyer knows the shoemaker (a damn'd stupid hound in company); but George promises to introduce him indiscriminately to all friends and all combinations.

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The play is the man's you wot of; but for God's sake (who would not like to have so pious a _professor's_ work _damn'd_) do not mention it--it is to come out in a feigned name, as one Tobin's.

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We are damn'd!

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Damn the husband and his "gentlemanlike qualities."

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Every part of it pleased me till you came to Paris; and your damn'd philosophical indolence or indifference stung me.

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thou damn'd Smell-fungus!

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The Professor's Rib has come out to be a damn'd disagreeable woman, so much so as to drive me and some more old cronies from his house.

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Damn them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld Crew, those Blights and Blasts of all that is Human in man and child.

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Cowper's damn'd blank verse detains you every step with some heavy Miltonism; Chapman gallops off with you his own free pace.

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How the old Gentleman, who joined you at Grantham, would have clappt his hands to his knees, and not knowing but it was an immediate visitation of God that burnt him, how pious it would have made him; him, I mean, that brought the Influenza with him, and only took places for one--a damn'd old sinner, he must have known what he had got with him!

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Sleep, too, I can't get for these damn'd winds of a night: and without sleep and rest what should ensue?

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By the bye, I saw a miniature of his as far excelling any in his shew cupboard (that of your sister not excepted) as that shew cupboard excells the shew things you see in windows--an old woman--damn her name--but most superlative; he has it to clean--I'll ask him the name--but the best miniature I ever saw, equal to Cooper and them fellows.

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It is kept a sort of secret, and the rehearsals have gone on privately, lest by many folks knowing it, the story should come out, which would infallibly damn it.

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A hundred hisses--damn the word, I write it like kisses--how different--a hundred hisses outweigh a 1000 Claps.

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You will forgive the plates, when I tell you they were left to the direction of Godwin, who left the choice of subjects to the bad baby, who from mischief (I suppose) has chosen one from damn'd beastly vulgarity (vide Merch.

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Suffice it, to save our taste and damn our folly, that we left it all to a friend W. G.--who in the first place cheated me into putting a name to them, which I did not mean, but do not repent, and then wrote a puff about their _simplicity_, &c., to go with the advertisement as in my name!

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Damn 'em, how they hissed!

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"Damn 'em, how they hissed."

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Must I then leave you, Gin, Rum, Brandy, Aqua Vitae--pleasant jolly fellows--Damn Temperance and them that first invented it, some Anti Noahite.

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A plate of plain Turtle, another of Turbot, with good roast Beef in the rear, and, as Alderman Curtis says, whoever can't make a dinner of that ought to be damn'd.

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Dear Mrs. H.: Sally who brings this with herself back has given every possible satisfaction in doing her work, etc., but the fact is the poor girl is oppressed with a ladylike melancholy, and cannot bear to be so much alone, as she necessarily must be in our kitchen, which to say the truth is damn'd solitary, where she can see nothing and converse with nothing and not even look out of window.

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Damn 'em; if you give 'em an inch &c. The preface is noble and such as you should write: I wish I could set my name to it--Imprimatur--but you have set it there yourself, and I thank you.

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Not but he has his damn'd eye upon us, and is w[h]etting his infernal feathered dart every instant, as you see him truly pictured in that impressive moral picture, "The good man at the hour of death."

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"Not on his soal but on his soul, damn'd Jew" may the malediction of my eternal antipathy light--We desire much to hear from you, and of you all, including Miss Hutchinson, for not writing to whom Mary feels a weekly (and did for a long time feel a daily) Pang.

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You might pit me For height Against Kean; But in a grand tragic scene I'm nothing:-- It would create a kind of loathing To see me act Hamlet; There'd be many a damn let Fly At my presumption If I should try, Being a fellow of no gumption.

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I cannot walk home from office but some officious friend offers his damn'd unwelcome courtesies to accompany me.

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Yours truly C. L. I think Southey will give us a lift in that damn'd Quarterly.

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Damn 'em.

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Damn 'em!

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"Ah doan't saay, look ye, 'e'll mak mooch out of en t' farst ye-ear--" "Damn him, you can hear his beastly voice all over the place."

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"Damn it all!" he wailed, "I lost my peavie!"

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'_There_, damn you!' said he.

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"Sir," said he, "damn your bear!"

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"'All, all are gone, the old familiar faces,'" Lanyard quoted in vindictive melancholy--"damn 'em!"

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"O--damn!" the Count complained peevishly.

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"Damn!" muttered the Count.

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"Damn it!" he growled uneasily--"there can't be any harm in that girl!

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Because, however, we look at it, and however we may have damn well bluffed over it, the game _is_ up--absolutely up."

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The real me is the man that paints pictures, damn good pictures, too, though I say it."

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I thought I'd damn myself as deep as I could--to pile up the reckoning for him; and I've about done it.

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"Damn," said Vernon, "Oh, damn!"

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"Damn," he said, "oh, damn!"

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"Damn!" he said.

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"Oh, yes--your friend Temple.--Say 'damn' again if it's the slightest comfort to you--I've heard worse words."

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After all the burning words of the phantom, the spirit he has seen may yet be a devil; the devil has power to assume a pleasing shape, and is perhaps taking advantage of his melancholy to damn him.

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"Whoever it is will be a nuisance--a _damn_ nuisance!" he concluded.

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"Damn!" ejaculated Kingozi fervently; and ran out of the tent.

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The author after this verse originally inserted the following, which he has however omitted in all the editions:-- Zoilus, had these been known, without a name Had died, and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame; The sense of sound antiquity had reign'd, And sacred Homer yet been unprofaned.

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Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside.

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The vulgar thus through imitation err; As oft the learn'd by being singular: So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong: So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.

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damn the lock!

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Look but on Gripus, or on Gripus' wife: 280 If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or, ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell,[93] damn'd to everlasting fame!

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Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope.

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but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise-- Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?

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You see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; 170 Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir; Or in pure equity (the case not clear) The Chancery takes your rents for twenty year: At best, it falls to some ungracious son, Who cries, 'My father's damn'd, and all's my own.'

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Well, but the poor--the poor have the same itch; They change their weekly barber, weekly news, Prefer a new japanner to their shoes, Discharge their garrets, move their beds, and run (They know not whither) in a chaise and one; They hire their sculler, and when once aboard, Grow sick, and damn the climate--like a lord.

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And shall we deem him ancient, right and sound, Or damn to all eternity at once, At ninety-nine, a modern and a dunce?

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Not that I'd lop the beauties from his book, Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook, Or damn all Shakspeare, like the affected fool At court, who hates whate'er he read at school.

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The play stands still; damn action and discourse, Back fly the scenes, and enter foot and horse; Pageants on pageants, in long order drawn, Peers, heralds, bishops, ermine, gold, and lawn; The champion too; and, to complete the jest, Old Edward's armour beams on Cibber's breast[153] With laughter, sure, Democritus had died, 320 Had he beheld an audience gape so wide.

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Him, the damn'd doctors and his friends immured, They bled, they cupp'd, they purged; in short, they cured: Whereat the gentleman began to stare-- 'My friends!' he cried, 'pox take you for your care!

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(It was by Providence they think, For your damn'd stucco has no chink.)

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A vision hermits can to Hell transport, 190 And forced ev'n me to see the damn'd at court.

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not damn the sharper, but the dice?

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The author after this verse originally inserted the following, which he has however omitted in all the editions:-- Zoilus, had these been known, without a name Had died, and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame; The sense of sound antiquity had reign'd, And sacred Homer yet been unprofaned.

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Thus wit, like faith, by each man is applied To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside.

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The vulgar thus through imitation err; As oft the learn'd by being singular: So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong: So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.

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damn the lock!

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Look but on Gripus, or on Gripus' wife: 280 If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or, ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell,[93] damn'd to everlasting fame!

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Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope.

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but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise-- Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?

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You see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; 170 Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir; Or in pure equity (the case not clear) The Chancery takes your rents for twenty year: At best, it falls to some ungracious son, Who cries, 'My father's damn'd, and all's my own.'

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Well, but the poor--the poor have the same itch; They change their weekly barber, weekly news, Prefer a new japanner to their shoes, Discharge their garrets, move their beds, and run (They know not whither) in a chaise and one; They hire their sculler, and when once aboard, Grow sick, and damn the climate--like a lord.

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And shall we deem him ancient, right and sound, Or damn to all eternity at once, At ninety-nine, a modern and a dunce?

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Not that I'd lop the beauties from his book, Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook, Or damn all Shakspeare, like the affected fool At court, who hates whate'er he read at school.

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The play stands still; damn action and discourse, Back fly the scenes, and enter foot and horse; Pageants on pageants, in long order drawn, Peers, heralds, bishops, ermine, gold, and lawn; The champion too; and, to complete the jest, Old Edward's armour beams on Cibber's breast[153] With laughter, sure, Democritus had died, 320 Had he beheld an audience gape so wide.

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Him, the damn'd doctors and his friends immured, They bled, they cupp'd, they purged; in short, they cured: Whereat the gentleman began to stare-- 'My friends!' he cried, 'pox take you for your care!

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(It was by Providence they think, For your damn'd stucco has no chink.)

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A vision hermits can to Hell transport, 190 And forced ev'n me to see the damn'd at court.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,137   ~   ~   ~

not damn the sharper, but the dice?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 542   ~   ~   ~

my dearest Edward," said his mother, standing in his path; "but you don't consider Mr. Palmer--" "Damn Mr. Palmer!

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"I do acknowledge that England is not quite so superior to all other countries in her climate as in every thing else: yet I don't 'damn the climate like a lord.'

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"Scandalously!" cried Beaumont; "and yet Walsingham is so generous that he will never let me damn the nation, for what he says was only the fault of an individual, who disgraced it."

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