Word: swearing
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...first tee of the Philmont Country Club, Philadelphia, to play against a nattier fellow?one arrayed in checkerboard golf-pantings, ring-streaked stockings like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts on the green, and a caddy wrote 6 on his scorecard. Watch Fob was one up. On Hole...
...jeopardy on the prone sea, or waiting in anguish by a sick-bed while a human spirit wags and gutters in the draught of death, men pray rashly, and implore with extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows. Not so Oscar...
...said a black cat's- / mean bone. I swear to God my man's got a black...
...swear to God my man's got a black...
...village was not too small to hold a great and terrible hate. There lived one Grachev, a moujik (peasant), consumed with bitterness. He alleged that, when the land had been distributed several years ago, his fellow peasants had "played him a trick." He, irate, was prompt to swear vengeance...