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The oldest men in Exham told that their grandfathers, as boys, had sought the swimming hole as the adult seeks his club. Jim looked with interest at his legs. "I've got six. How many have you, Pilly?" Phil counted the brown bloodsuckers that clung to his fat calves. "Seven. Mean cusses, ain't they." Jim worked with a sharp edged stone, scraping his thin shanks. "You've got fat to spare.
Them three miserable cusses are coming back to me again." I also at that period made the acquaintance of Senator Gray of Delaware, who seemed to me ideally fitted for his position as a member of the Upper House in Congress. Speaker Reed also made a great impression upon me as a man of honesty, lucidity, and force. The Secretary of State, Mr.
"Look yere, Pendennis," he said, seating himself; "since I've been in this room you've called me beast, brute, dog: and d d me, haven't you? How do you suppose one man likes that sort of talk from another? How many years have I waited on you, and how many damns and cusses have you given me, along with my wages? Do you think a man's a dog, that you can talk to him in this way?
She cried and screamed out, and it took the other women a long time to quiet her. On the low hill to the east the Indians kept up a tremendous powwowing and yelling. But beyond an occasional harmless shot they did nothing. "What's the matter with the ornery cusses?" Laban impatiently wanted to know. "Can't they make up their minds what they're goin' to do, an' then do it?"
It riled us to see the darned cusses keep so far away from our rifles, because we wanted to lay a few more of them out, but was obliged to keep still and watch out for some new deviltry. We waited there until it was plumb night, not daring to move out yet; but we managed to boil our coffee and fry slap-jacks and meat.
It's true, perhaps, that most of the Britishers were forced to join in about the same way I was, and there may be a Scandinavian, or two, with a few Dutch, to be counted in that list; but the most of these cusses are pirates from choice. It's their trade, and they like it.
I bet Sir Elphinstone's cussin'." "And I'll bet Miss Sally don't care how hard he cusses. She could do a bit o' that too in her time, by all accounts." "Ay, a monstrous free-spoken lady always. Swearin' don't sit well upon womankind, I allow not as a rule. But when there's blood, a damn up or down what is it?
The D.C. stands for Desprit Cusses, a numerosity which abounds here, the most of whom persess a Romantic pashun for gratooitous drinks. And in this conjunction I will relate an incident. I notist for several days a large Hearse standin in front of the principal tavern on Pennsylvany Avenoo.
There is no class of men on earth that has greater temptations and better opportunities to be 'cusses on wheels' than the traveling men of the Northwest; and when I say that they stand up under it a confounded sight better than the same number of ministers or editors would, I don't want you to think I am giving you any confectionery from my sample case.
I never saw a grander sight than the vast blackened, smoking plain, beyond which the flames raged and roared like thunder, while the dense white smoke, settling low down, partially veiled the sunlight and gave a weird, strange appearance, that is indescribable, to the scene. "The cowardly cusses!" said Jerry, as we paused to take breath from our labors. "They wanted to smoke us out, did they?
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