The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, "Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!"

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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.

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Some of them introduced him to their wives and sisters, which ladies duly set him down as nice but dull--a form of faint praise which failed to damn.

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Then fare-ye-well, these foreign lands, And be damn'd their bitter drouth.

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"Damn his fat head!" he broke out.

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"I shall never finish that ballade," he thought to himself; and then, with another shudder at the recollection, "Oh, damn his fat head!" he repeated fervently, and spat upon the snow.

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"I knew him--damn him!

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'Damn the ten sacks and the twelve too!' was the ungracious and incomprehensible rejoinder.

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But they, at every ill success, Like creatures lost without redress, Cursed politicians, armies, fleets; While every one cried, 'Damn the cheats!'

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but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blessed 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; 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; 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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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 Shakespeare, like th' affected fool At court, who hates whate'er he read at school.

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"Well, I didn't burn one damn straw of your old wheat."

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Damn queer, though.

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"Can you see any--" "Not a damn thing--yet everything," interrupted Sanborn, enigmatically.

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"Thet one thar is sore hurted--it's a damn shame."

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Step along, yer damn rebel scum."

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Thet's how I hed the damn luck ter meet up with this Sanchez I was a speakin' 'bout.

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When daylight come we wus streakin' it eastward by compass, an' every damn sail set.

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Damn me, Sanchez, I believe I 'll hail the fellow, and find out what he is doing in there."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 857   ~   ~   ~

"Damn me, that's just what I thought."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,667   ~   ~   ~

It was so damn dark thar by the foremast I couldn't tell whut did happen, but it wus fists mostly, till the mate drove the poor devil, cussin' like mad, over agin the rail, an' then heaved him out inter the water 'longside.

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Well, now, damn yer eyes!

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Damn me, I believe he is.

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Take that--damn you!

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The damn black brute kicked savagely enough, but at that you're lucky; it's the Spanish style to use a knife.

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He said it was up to us whether we signed up, or walked the plank; and he didn't appear to care a damn which we chose.

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Sanchez is too damn smart fer thet.

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Every damn rat is a spy.

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"No; these near bunks are all empty, an' the damn noise drowns our voices.

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But we have to carry extra men, who bunk amidships--hell-hounds to fight; damn mongrels of course."

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"That damn scum!

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"O' course I did; but damn it, I'm hungrier then I wus afore--whut the hell's the use?"

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Damn me, if I believe they got a hand at the wheel."

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"Paradilla, sah; damn his soul!"

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I hope yer don't think I'm a damn coward, Mr. Carlyle?"

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Thar's somethin' cursedly strange a happenin' in that damn fog.

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"Try the port oar, Pedro; we must have missed the damn ship."

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Them lads ain't comin' aboard bare-handed, but damn if I've seed a weapon on this hooker."

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"There is no hope o' gittin' forrard, sir--look at that damn litter, an'--an' them dead men."

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those damn cowards left you here to die!"

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Damn you, take your gold and go."

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"No, you don't--damn you, Carlyle!" he snapped angrily.

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Get out of here, damn you!

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That damn Dutchman's done with.

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"But," and all of her surging terror trembled in her rushing words, "I would die, I tell you...." "And I tell you," he snapped back at her, "that I don't care a damn if you do.

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Damn fool."

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"A thousand dollars," he returned slowly, "wouldn't do me any good if I never got it: as I wouldn't if none of us got clear of this damn' snow; neither would ten I And it wouldn't do me any good if Benny and Brodie shot me full of lead.

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MARMADUKE For this purpose Should he resolve to taint her Soul by means Which bathe the limbs in sweat to think of them; Should he, by tales which would draw tears from iron, Work on her nature, and so turn compassion And gratitude to ministers of vice, And make the spotless spirit of filial love Prime mover in a plot to damn his Victim Both soul and body-- WALLACE 'Tis too horrible; Oswald, what say you to it?

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I am not of the world's presumptuous judges, Who damn where they can neither see nor feel, With a hard-hearted ignorance; your struggles I witness'd, and now hail your victory.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,950   ~   ~   ~

My dear boy," he addressed Peter now, from an immeasurable distance, "the secret of England's greatness consists of letting every damn fool say what he likes, they feel better, and it does no harm.

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Damn the women--but save the home--we gotta' save the home."

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"I'd rather have him damn me up and down.

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to lard every sentence with an oath or a curse, making bold at every turn to salute his Maker, or to summon Him in attestation of his tattle; not to say calling and challenging the Almighty to damn and destroy him?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 564   ~   ~   ~

What we have to eliminate is not this nation or that, but the system of national shoving and elbowing, the treatment of Africa as the board for a game of beggar-my-neighbour-and-damn-the-niggers, in which a few syndicates, masquerading as national interests, snatch a profit to the infinite loss of all mankind.

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I point these things out here only to carry home the fact that the ideas of sovereign isolation and detachment that were perfectly valid in 1900, the self-sufficient empire, Imperial Zollverein and all that stuff, and damn the foreigner!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,373   ~   ~   ~

"The devil damn the fellow!" said he, "he crosses me like my evil genius.

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As Dave Darrin was gently turned over on his back it was seen that Damn's face was a mass of blood.

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"Mr. Jetson, had you anything in your possession, or did you wear anything, that could cut Mr. Damn's face like that?" demanded the head coach.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,109   ~   ~   ~

"Damn you, I've waited long enough for your whims.

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Mr. Phinuit returned with a winning smile--"I don't give a tupenny damn if we do."

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And when Mr. Phinuit, learning that there was no telephone, had accepted an offer of the Montalais motor car to tow the other under cover and so enable Jules to make repairs, and Eve de Montalais had carried madame la comtesse off to her own apartment to change her shoes and stockings, the gentlemen trooped to the drawing-room fire, at the instance of Madame de Sévénié, and grew quite cheerful under the combined influence of warmth and wine and biscuits; Duchemin standing by with a half-rejected doubt to preoccupy him, vaguely disturbed by the oddness of this rencontre considered in relation to that injudicious stop for dinner at Nant in the face of the impending storm, and with Mr. Phinuit's declaration that he didn't give a tupenny damn if they did all get soaked to their skins.

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He uttered a private but heartfelt "Damn!" and bowed profoundly as the woman, tapping Athenais on the arm with a fan crusted with diamonds, demanded: "Present instantly, my dear, this gentleman who tangoes as I have never seen the tango danced before!"

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"Well," said Phinuit, momentarily but very slightly discountenanced--"you've been uncommon' damn' useful, you know...

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[455] Cruel Elinor, Your savage mother, my uncivil queen: The tigress, that hath drunk the purple blood Of three times twenty thousand valiant men; Washing her red chaps in the weeping tears Of widows, virgins, nurses, sucking babes; And lastly, sorted with her damn'd consorts, Ent'red a labyrinth to murther love.

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No matter where; I think I was fore-spoken at the teat, This damn'd rogue serv'd me thus!

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All the unaccomplish'd works of Authors' hands, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mix'd, Damn'd upon earth, fleet thither-- Play, Opera, Farce, with all their trumpery-- There, by the neighbouring moon (by some not improperly supposed thy Regent Planet upon earth) mayst thou not still be acting thy managerial pranks, great disembodied Lessee?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,163   ~   ~   ~

There was no offence against decorum in all this; nothing to condemn, to damn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,558   ~   ~   ~

Aunt Delia McCormick told her parrot story, which was _risqué_, even when no gentlemen were present, for the parrot said "damn it!" in the course of his surprisingly human repartee under difficulties.

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But Miss Eubanks, who had observed that all parrot stories have "damn" in them, suddenly conceived that matters had gone far enough in _that_ direction.

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A yell in the sleeping camp at night, "Some damn thing's bit me;" and matches are struck, while a sleepy warrior hunts through his blankets for the soldier ant whose great pincers draw blood, or lurking centipede or scorpion.

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Damn it--I ain't a swearin', Mis' Root--damn it, I say, _she's a shuttin' 'em out!_ She's done it!!

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She wanted to say "damn!" and stamp her foot or throw something at him, lying there so completely self-possessed!

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"I'm a damn' fool besides!"

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"When I damn please!" was the independent reply.

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"Damn that fool, Dorsey!"

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"He was blowing, was he?" he said with a hard laugh, "the damn--darned fool!" he corrected, remembering Ophelia at his side.

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You've done a lot of talking--now, damn you, cover your chatter with coin or shut up!" the end of the sentence coming like the crack of a whip.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,323   ~   ~   ~

"_Go--go_--damn 'em!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,327   ~   ~   ~

"_That's it--show 'em--damn 'em--show 'em what--what runnin'--what real runnin' is!_" fumbling caressingly at the mare's neck with hands numb and stiff and chuckling pitifully, insanely, while his face was drawn with agony nearly unendurable.

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Nay, my maister is damn'd, I'll be sworne, for his verie soule burnes in the firie eye of his faire mistresse.

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This basenesse follows your profession: You are like common Beadles, apt to lash Almost to death poore wretches not worth striking, But fawne with slavish flattery on damn'd vices, So great men act them: you clap hands at those, Where the true Poet indeed doth scorne to guild A gawdy Tombe with glory of his Verse Which coffins stinking Carrion; no, his lines Are free as his Invention; no base feare Can shape his penne to Temporize even with Kings; The blacker are their crimes he lowder sings.

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"Well, Mr. Orkins, they knows--damn 'em!--as your feelins ull make you orfer more and more, for who knows that there dorg might belong _to a lidy_, and then _her_ feelins has to be took into consideration.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 952   ~   ~   ~

"'Yes,' ses you, 'I have,' like a gennelman--excuse my imitation, sir--' and I don't _keer a damn for the whelp_!'

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,801   ~   ~   ~

I didn't know it was a joke; I thought it was the mare's name, and I heard him mutter "Damn!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,821   ~   ~   ~

As I felt his eyes staring at me I preserved a dignified composure, and had the satisfaction of hearing him mutter again, "Damn!"

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Damn a man, anyhow, who can't find anything better to do than to run around to summer-resorts and flirt with other men's wives!

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"Damn my promise!

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damn your impertinence!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 27   ~   ~   ~

"MY DAMN PRETTY LI'L' HIGH-STEPPIN' SQUAW" XXIII.

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A damn li'l' Injun squaw playin' her tricks on Bully West!

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"You damn li'l' high-steppin' filly!

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But all the time you know damn well you're half Injun."

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It's a damn long lane that ain't got a crook in it somewheres.

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"You damn li'l' hell-cat!"

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CHAPTER XXII "MY DAMN PRETTY LI'L' HIGH-STEPPIN' SQUAW" The man on the stool was Whaley.

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My damn pretty li'l' high-steppin' squaw."

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Damn it, sir, you liked it.

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