The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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What you say will damn or save him; and I have too good an opinion of you to think that any old grudge, though you might have cause for it, would stand in his way.'

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"No, sir; damn the O'Reilly estate," cried he, huddling the maps together on the desk, and taking up the bank notes, which he had begun to reckon for the purchase money.

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He could now, with a most plausible face, protest to a _poor devil_, upon the honour of a gentleman, that he should be paid to-morrow; when nothing was farther from his intentions or his power than to keep his word: and when _to-morrow_ came, he could, with the most easy assurance, _damn the rascal_ for putting a gentleman in mind of his promises.

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Why, damn it, Malay knows I saw the coin put in there.

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"Damn you, you blasted snitch!" he burst out furiously.

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Or-- "Damn it!" gritted Jimmie Dale.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,172   ~   ~   ~

"Catch him, and we'll damn soon find out!"

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Mr. Seaton settled the bill with a magnificent "Damn the expense" air, which annoyed Mason--who was of course a partner in all the charges of the day--and made Laura bite her lip.

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"Oh, damn yer!

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Damn him!--let him think what he liked.

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"Damn me if I know any woman, young or old, that would _avoid_ being married, if she could, though," cried Sir Philip Baddely, a gentleman who always supplied "each vacuity of sense" with an oath: "but, Rochfort, didn't Valleton marry one of these nieces?"

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damn it!--hey?"

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"Damn it, yes--where is Clary, though?" exclaimed Sir Philip, suddenly recollecting himself.--Clarence Hervey at this instant was drowning: he had got out of his depth, and had struggled in vain to recover himself.

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Damn you, Rochfort, yonder it is."

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"Damn it, though, can't some of ye swim?

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Can't some of ye jump in?" cried Sir Philip, turning to his companions: "damn it, Clarence will go to the bottom."

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"Damn it, what shall we do with him now?" said Sir Philip: "Damn it, we must call some of the people from the boat-house--he's as heavy as lead: damn me, if I know what to do with him."

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"Dr. X---- the writer, do you mean?" said Sir Philip; "then, damn me, we'd better get out of his way as fast as we can, or he'll have some of us down in black and white; and curse me, if I should choose to meet with myself in a book."

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"Damn me, if I don't flatter myself, though, one can make oneself famous enough to all intents and purposes without having any thing to say to these author geniuses.

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to want to see yourself in print--I'll publish this in Bond-street: damn it, in point of famousness, I'd sport my Random against all the books that ever were read or written, damn me!

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damn it," said Sir Philip, "what signifies who pulled you out, now you are safe and sound?

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Why, damn it, Clary, you'll be nobody.

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But follow your own genius--damn me, if I take it upon me to understand your men of genius--they are in the Serpentine river one day, and in the clouds the next: so fare ye well, Clary.

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I expect to see you a doctor of physic, or a methodist parson, soon, damn me if I don't: so fare ye well, Clary.

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"Oh, damn it then, but you are; only ten times handsomer."

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Belinda looked at him with astonishment; and laying down the pencil with which she had just begun to write a direction to Mrs. Stanhope, she said, "Perhaps, Sir Philip, to _do the thing in style_, I ought to pretend at this instant not to understand you; but such false delicacy might mislead you: permit me, therefore, to say, that if I have any concern in the letter which you, are going to write to my aunt Stanhope----" "Well guessed!" interrupted Sir Philip: "to be sure you have, and you're a charming girl--damn me if you aren't--for meeting my ideas in this way, which will save a cursed deal of trouble," added the polite lover, seating himself on the sofa, beside Belinda.

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a year, you object, or to his family, or to his person?--Oh, curse it!" said he, changing his tone, "you're only quizzing me to see how I should look--damn me, you did it too well, you little coquet!"

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"Oh, damn it!

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"God forgie me, but ye canna fush worth a damn!

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Barrow and his handful of cavalry volunteers crash into the thick of them with the informal order to his men, "Give point, lads; damn cuts and guards."

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He heard Colin Campbell's stern repressive rebuke--"Ninety-third, ninety-third, damn all that eagerness!" when the hotter spirits of the regiment would fain have broken ranks and met the Russians half-way with the cold steel; he saw the Scotch wife chastise the fugitive Turks with her tongue and her frying-pan.

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Someone had tittered at Uncle Matthew as they passed up the steps of the court towards the door, and Uncle William, disregarding the fact that he was in a court of law, had turned on him very fiercely, and had said "Damn your sowl!..." but a policeman, saying "S-s-sh!

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This is a damn silly play, this!"

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"It's damn silly to let on a man doesn't know his own wife when he sees her.

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"Damn the cod there's about it!

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As I tell her, if it's hard to be tragic when you're respectable, it's damn hard to be comic when you're not.

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Then they say 'Oh, damn!' and go into the Civil Service, and in three years' time an earthquake wouldn't rouse them.

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Someone had tittered at Uncle Matthew as they passed up the steps of the court towards the door, and Uncle William, disregarding the fact that he was in a court of law, had turned on him very fiercely, and had said "Damn your sowl!..." but a policeman, saying "S-s-sh!

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This is a damn silly play, this!"

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"It's damn silly to let on a man doesn't know his own wife when he sees her.

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"Damn the cod there's about it!

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As I tell her, if it's hard to be tragic when you're respectable, it's damn hard to be comic when you're not.

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Then they say 'Oh, damn!' and go into the Civil Service, and in three years' time an earthquake wouldn't rouse them.

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Damn him!

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And in such a generous, noble manner--I am ashamed of myself--He has saved my life, and damn me if I do not feel as if I could never forgive him.

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Damn him!

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Damn it!

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The aunt Wenbourne too still continues to give laud unto Mr. Henley!--Damn Mr. Henley!--But she may be necessary; and, as she is entirely governed by the gull Edward, I must submit to bring myself into his favour.

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there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above; and green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath, Green as a dream and deep as death.-- Oh, damn!

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'A damn bad sailor and a landshark too, No good in port or out'--my granddad said.

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Oars bent, Soul took the looms now body's bolt was spent, 'Damn it, come on now.'

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Unhampered by a mission, happily ignorant of what is commended by all good men, disdainful of the petty certainties of pedagogues and green-grocers, not caring a damn what becomes of the Republic, or the Family, or even snivelization itself, he is at liberty to disport himself pleasantly with his nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns, arranging them with the same free hand, the same innocent joy, the same superb skill and discretion with which the late Jahveh arranged carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, hydrogen, oxygen and phosphorus in the sublime form of the human carcass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,034   ~   ~   ~

"You big damn fool!

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"Oh damn being rich!" he cried.

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"Why they ain't a damn bit of sense to it!" she cried.

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"Damn the whole crew!" said the Captain; and the old lady laughed delightedly.

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With his curious, over-sensitive, wincing laugh, he told us how the boys had followed him and jeered at him, calling after him, 'You damn Dago, you damn Dago.'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,560   ~   ~   ~

When they come one day, shouting, "You damn Dago, dirty dog," and will take my hat again, oh, I get mad, and I would kill them, I would kill them, I am so mad.

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Damn me!

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Damn politics for women, I say--damn them!"

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Dan, don't--" "I'll cry if I damn please!"

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We've no proof of anything--" "Damn proof!"

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Says foolish David, 'Damn your shield!

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And damn my sling!

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Yet, to be just to these poor men of pelf, Each does but hate his neighbour as himself: Damn'd to the mines, an equal fate betides The slave that digs it, and the slave that hides.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,370   ~   ~   ~

Indulge the vigour of your mounting blood, And let gray fools be indolently good, Who, past all pleasure, damn the joys of sense, With reverend dulness and grave impotence.'

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Grown old in rhyme, 'twere barbarous to discard Your persevering, unexhausted bard; Damnation follows death in other men, But your damn'd poet lives and writes again.

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Let ease, his last request, be of your giving, Nor force him to be damn'd to get his living.

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Condemn a play of theirs, and they evade it; Cry, 'Damn not us, but damn the French, who made it.'

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1 Dear, damn'd, distracting town, farewell!

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Both parties rage; My vixen mistress squalls; The wits in envious feuds engage; And Homer (damn him!)

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,857   ~   ~   ~

[261]) an ill run at play Blank'd his bold visage, and a thin third day; Swearing and supperless the hero sate, Blasphemed his gods, the dice, and damn'd his fate.

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

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Know, Eusden thirsts no more for sack or praise; He sleeps among the dull of ancient days; Safe, where no critics damn, no duns molest, Where wretched Withers, Ward, and Gildon[283] rest, And high-born Howard,[284] more majestic sire, With fool of quality completes the quire, Thou, Cibber!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,993   ~   ~   ~

Know, Eusden, &c. In the former edition-- Know, Settle, cloy'd with custard and with praise, Is gather'd to the dull of ancient days, Safe where no critics damn, no duns molest, Where Gildon, Banks, and high-born Howard rest.

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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, Heaven's Swiss, who fight for any god, or man.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,238   ~   ~   ~

Each cygnet sweet, of Bath and Tunbridge race, Whose tuneful whistling makes the waters pass: Each songster, riddler, every nameless name, All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.

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And to a man named Barry-Smith--damn him, I wonder whether he is the hungry scut that hasn't had his hair cut this fall, or the blancmange-bellied one with the mashed-strawberry nose?

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And I hadn't any business to take the chance of course at that stage, with the ace right in my hand--" "Arthur would have said, before he'd thought of it, 'You damn fool--!'

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You're a damn cad, you know, Bob," he pensively observed.

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You are damn disagreeable this morning, Bob.

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And Peter considered "Miss Beechinor a damn fine girl, and Miss Hugonin too, only--" "Only," I prompted, between puffs, "Miss Hugonin keeps everybody, as my old Mammy used to say, 'in a perpetual swivet.'

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I haven't been abroad for a long while," said Mr. Blagden; and then, after another meditative pause: "Now Stella--well, Stella was a damn sight too good for me, of course--" "She was," I affably assented."

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And it waked something--Oh, I don't know what I mean," said Peter--"it's just damn foolishness, I suppose."

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"Damn you!" was her verdict.

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Mrs Tow-wouse, Mr Tow-wouse, and Betty, all lifting up their voices together; but Mrs Tow-wouse's voice, like a bass viol in a concert, was clearly and distinctly distinguished among the rest, and was heard to articulate the following sounds:--"O you damn'd villain!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,500   ~   ~   ~

At which words she fell to chafing more violently than before: the bell then happening to ring, he damn'd his wife, and bid her go in to the company, and not stand rubbing there all day, for he did not believe the young fellow's leg was so bad as he pretended; and if it was, within twenty miles he would find a surgeon to cut it off.

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Damn.

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"Damn people!

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"But if we have any luck--damn it!

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He described the scheme, but in such a way as rather to damn it than praise it; and as for the Bill itself, which he had undertaken to compare with former Factory Bills, when he sat down he left it, indeed, in a parlous case--a poor, limping, doubtful thing, quite as likely to ruin the East End as to do it a hand's turn of good.

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A pause; then a thick voice said, in an emphatic undertone: "Damn the carriage!--go away!"

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"Damn Lady Tuam!

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