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  1. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    ... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.
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  2. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    There was the gate next, which she{Liesel}clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside. People started to gather on the street, until Rosa Hubermann swore at them, after which they reversed back whence they came. ~A TRANSLATION OF ROSA HUBERMANN'S ANNOUNCEMENT~'What are you arseholes looking at?
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  3. Betty Smith _ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man. She knew that he was really saying, "Goodbye-God bless you.
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  4. Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light

    He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.
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  5. Bill Bryson _ Made in America: An Informal

    Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon {a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers}, jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s.
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  6. Douglas Coupland _ Player One: What Is to Become

    Rick, I'm holding a do-I-give-a-shit-ometer in my hand, and the needle's not moving. Shut up.
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  7. J.R.R. Tolkien _ Tales from the Perilous Realm

    He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing {mostly to himself}.
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  8. Raymond Carver _ Where I'm Calling From: New

    I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit."
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  9. Nick Hornby _ A Long Way Down

    How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.
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  10. J.R.R. Tolkien _ Tales from the Perilous Realm

    He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing {mostly to himself}."
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