The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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---- *** I have heard her story!--Art, damn'd, confounded, wicked, unpardonable art, is a woman of her character--But show me a woman, and I'll show thee a plotter!--This plaguy sex is art itself: every individual of it is a plotter by nature.

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How does this damn'd love unman me!--but nobody ever loved as I love!--It is even increased by her unworthy flight, and my disappointment.

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Damn'd confounded niceness, prudery, affectation, or pretty ignorance, if not affectation!--By my soul, Belford, I told thee all--I was more indebted to her struggles, than to my own forwardness.

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You have one or two good ones mean time, I presume, Madam, just to receive my wife; for we have lost time--these damn'd physicians--excuse me, Madam, I am not used to curse; but it is owing to the love I have for my wife--they have kept her in hand, till they are ashamed to take more fees, and now advise her to the air.

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All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as melancholy.

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Now desperate I hate my life, Lend me a halter or a knife; All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damn'd as melancholy.

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To see a man roll himself up like a snowball, from base beggary to right worshipful and right honourable titles, unjustly to screw himself into honours and offices; another to starve his genius, damn his soul to gather wealth, which he shall not enjoy, which his prodigal son melts and consumes in an instant.

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and when, as Cyprian notes, [1847]"he may be freed from his burden, and eased of his pains, will go on still, his wealth increasing, when he hath enough, to get more, to live besides himself," to starve his genius, keep back from his wife [1848]and children, neither letting them nor other friends use or enjoy that which is theirs by right, and which they much need perhaps; like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it, because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others: and for a little momentary pelf, damn his own soul?

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To avoid which, we will take any pains,--_extremos currit mercator ad Indos_, we will leave no haven, no coast, no creek of the world unsearched, though it be to the hazard of our lives, we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, [2207]five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones, and both extremes of heat and cold: we will turn parasites and slaves, prostitute ourselves, swear and lie, damn our bodies and souls, forsake God, abjure religion, steal, rob, murder, rather than endure this insufferable yoke of poverty, which doth so tyrannise, crucify, and generally depress us.

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It will make a man run to the antipodes, or tarry at home and turn parasite, lie, flatter, prostitute himself, swear and bear false witness; he will venture his body, kill a king, murder his father, and damn his soul to come at it.

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They pretend decency and ornament; but let them take heed, that while they set out their bodies they do not damn their souls; 'tis [5033]Bernard's counsel: "shine in jewels, stink in conditions; have purple robes, and a torn conscience."

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How much better were it for our matrons to do as she did, to go civilly and decently, [5038]_Honestae mulieris instar quae utitur auro pro eo quod est, ad ea tantum quibus opus est_, to use gold as it is gold, and for that use it serves, and when they need it, than to consume it in riot, beggar their husbands, prostitute themselves, inveigle others, and peradventure damn their own souls?

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condenar, to condemn, damn.

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"Oh Jerry, did you _hear_ him say 'Damn'?"

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He won't be able to practice, and nobody'll care a damn.... Not that that would matter if he cared himself."

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"Damn your Field Ambulance!...

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I married her because I thought she cared about me--and because I thought I'd be killed before I could come back to her--But she doesn't care a damn.

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We don't care a damn what people think.

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When Scaliger, whole years of labour past, Beheld his lexicon complete at last, And weary of his task, with wond'ring eyes, Saw, from words pil'd on words, a fabric rise, He curs'd the industry, inertly strong, In creeping toil that could persist so long; And if, enrag'd he cried, heav'n meant to shed Its keenest vengeance on the guilty head, The drudgery of words the damn'd would know, Doom'd to write lexicons in endless woe[t].

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[b] Upon the first representation of this play, 1770, a party assembled to damn it, and succeeded.

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can women all be damn'd?

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Yes, lie and damn, rather than tell me that; I say again, where is she?

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Let me love lightning, let me be embrac'd And kist by Scorpions, or adore the eyes Of Basilisks, rather than trust to tongues, And shrink these veins up; stick me here a stone Lasting to ages in the memory Of this damn'd act.

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O thou damn'd in thy creation!

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A] damn'd.

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Why, you damn'd slaves, doe you know who I am?

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I have been sadly disappointed in Talfourd, who does the critiques in the "Times," and who promised his strenuous services; but by some damn'd arrangement he was sent to the wrong house, and a most iniquitous account of Ali substituted for his, which I am sure would have been a kind one.

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I'll be damn'd if that isn't the line.

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I have got rid of my bad spirits, and hold up pretty well this rain-damn'd May.

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He did not like the world, and he has left it, as Alderman Curtis advised the Radicals, "If they don't like their country, damn 'em, let 'em leave it," they possessing no rood of ground in England, and he 10,000 acres.

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It is well she leaves me alone o' nights--the damn'd Day-hag _BUSINESS_.

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They keep dragging me on, a poor, worn mill-horse, in the eternal round of the damn'd magazine; but 'tis they are blind, not I. Colburn (where I recognise with delight the gay W. Honeycomb renovated) hath the ascendency.

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Dear C.--We are going off to Enfield, to Allsop's, for a day or 2, with some intention of succeeding them in their lodging for a time, for this damn'd nervous Fever (vide Lond.

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Dear N. You will not expect us to-morrow, I am sure, while these damn'd North Easters continue.

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Don't waste your wit upon that damn'd Dry Salter.

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I had a Sire, that at plain Crambo Had hit you o'er the pate a damn'd blow.

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Mary does not immediately want Books, having a damn'd consignment of Novels in MS. from Malta: which I wish the Mediterranean had in its guts.

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We are poor travellers, and moreover we have company (damn 'em) good people, Mr. Hone and an old crony not seen for 20 years, coming here on Tuesday, one stays night with us, and Mary doubts my power to get up time enough, and comfort enough, to be so far as you are.

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He is a damn'd fine musician, and what is better, a good man and true.

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

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Damn the King, lords, commons, and _specially_ (as I said on Muswell Hill on a Sunday when I could get no beer a quarter before one) all Bishops, Priests and Curates.

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Lest those raptures in this honeymoon of my correspondence, which you avow for the gentle person of my Nuncio, after passing through certain natural grades, as Love, Love and Water, Love with the chill off, then subsiding to that point which the heroic suitor of his wedded dame, the noble-spirited Lord Randolph in the play, declares to be the ambition of his passion, a reciprocation of "complacent kindness,"--should suddenly plump down (scarce staying to bait at the mid point of indifference, so hungry it is for distaste) to a loathing and blank aversion, to the rendering probable such counter expressions as this,--"Damn that infernal twopenny postman" (words which make the not yet glutted inamorato "lift up his hands and wonder who can use them.")

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What damn'd Unitarian skewer-soul'd things the general biographies turn out.

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Kenney has just assured me, that he has just touch'd £100 from the theatre; you are a damn'd fool if you don't exact your Tythe of him, and with that assurance I rest Your Brother fool C.L.

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I like most "King Death;" glorious 'bove all, "The Lady with the Hundred Rings;" "The Owl;" "Epistle to What's his Name" (here may be I'm partial); "Sit down, Sad Soul;" "The Pauper's Jubilee" (but that's old, and yet 'tis never old); "The Falcon;" "Felon's Wife;" damn "Madame Pasty" (but that is borrowed); Apple-pie is very good, And so is apple-pasty; But-- O Lard!

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I wish you would omit "by the author of Elia," _now_, in advertising that damn'd "Devil's Wedding."

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Swallow your damn'd dinner and your brandy and water fast-- & come immediately I want to take Knowles in to Emma's only female friend for 5 minutes only, and we are free for the even'g.

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I love the sonnet to my heart, and you _shall_ finish it, and I'll be damn'd if I furnish a line towards it.

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But do not if it be irksome to yourself,--such as shall make you say, 'damn it, here's Lamb's box come again.'

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"Yes, I know that," gurgled Holman; "but Leith--oh, damn it!

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"I tell damn big lie you an' Miss Herndon."

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Something going happen, damn bad."

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"He kick porter men an' make damn big noise outside missee tent.

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"Toni all the same brother to me," muttered the Fijian, dimly understanding the meaning of the remark; "me kill Soma pretty damn soon."

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"Me damn good fighter!" cried the Raretongan.

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"Damn you, will--" Maru interrupted with a cry of astonishment.

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"That's just what I want you to do, damn you--anything you please.

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_You_ may call that sort of thing cleverness, if you like; I call it damn' foolishness."

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That's damn' nonsense!

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Ouida ain't cultured, Wilkins, but she's damn' good reading.

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But since somebody had to have it, I'd much rather it was you, my boy, than a set of infernal, hypocritical, philanthropic sharks, and I'm damn' glad Frederick has done the square thing by you--yes, begad!"

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"Damn you!

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_Damn_ you!" she screamed, her voice high, flat, quite unhuman; "ah, God in Heaven damn you!"

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But it was the hatless Colonel on his favourite Black Bess ("Damn your motor-cars!" the Colonel was wont to say; "I consider my appearance sufficiently unprepossessing already, sir, without my arriving in Heaven in fragments and stinking of gasoline!")

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And as for Dr. Jeal, he would hold him responsible--"personally, sir"--for the consequences of his dawdling in this fashion--"Damme, sir, like a damn' snail with a wooden leg!"

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Damn Jukesbury!

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Damn all doctors, too, sir!

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I put my trust in my God, sir, and not in a box of damn' sugar-pills, sir.

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But Colonel Hugonin enjoyed them thoroughly; for, as he feelingly and frequently observed, it is an immense consolation to any man to reflect that his home no longer contains "more damn' foolishness to the square inch than any other house in the United States."

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I ain't a Fenian nor yet a Guy Fawkes, daughter, and in consequence I'm free to confess I don't care for all this damn mystery and shilly-shallying.

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"It ain't," said the Colonel, flatly--"it's some more damn foolishness."

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"I have run up an attempt on the 'Curse of Kehama' for the _Quarterly_: a strange thing it is--the 'Curse,' I mean--and the critique is not, as the blackguards say, worth a damn; but what I could I did, which was to throw as much weight as possible upon the beautiful passages, of which there are many, and to slur over its absurdities, of which there are not a few.

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[31] When we add to these invectives, damnations of friends as well as foes, of companions, lawyers, men of letters, princes, philosophers, popes, pagans, innocent people as well as guilty, fools and wise, capable and incapable, men, women, and children,--it is really no better than a kind of diabolical sublimation of Lord Thurlow's anathemas in the _Rolliad_, which begins with "Damnation seize ye all;" and ends with "Damn them beyond what mortal tongue can tell, Confound, sink, plunge them all to deepest blackest hell."

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There are no such devils as these in Dante; though Milton has something like them: "Devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds: men only disagree."

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But that same innocence, and that man's name, Have damn'd thee, Pisa, to a Theban fame?

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"Laugh, Damn it!"

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"Humph!" said Cumberland, a little baffled; "maybe that's because Dan is kind of fond of you, gal, an' he has sort of introduced you to his pets, damn 'em!

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"An' I'm willin'," said the other, "that you should take it any way you damn please."

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Damn his eyes.

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"Git out of the saddle damn quick," growled Silent.

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"Who's got any money to bet this damn wolf lives more'n five seconds?" he said savagely.

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Are you too damn good to drink with me?

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"A whip every day, damn him--a whip every time he showed his teeth at me.

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"Let the damn wolf be.

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"'You've come a damn long ways,' says he.

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"Damn you, d'you hear me?"

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"You damn blind fool!

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"Why, damn it, she's marked every man here."

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"Damn you, I say let her go!"

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God knows I don't want to drag any damn calico aroun' with us."

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He'll be thinkin' fast an' he'll be shootin' a damn sight faster.

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"Damn it!" exclaimed Jordan, "don't you see Whistling Dan's wolf?

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"Damn his hide, I did.

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"An' so have you, Rogers, for a damn long time!"

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For the last time: Are you goin' to order Lewis an' Patterson to give up Haines, or are you goin' to let two good men die fightin' for a damn lone rider?"

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"Give up that gun, damn you!"

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"Damn you, she's waitin' for you."

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"The damn wolf let us take Dan off the hoss without makin' any fuss."

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"Your damn tunes are gettin' my goat.

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