| 单词 | cussedness |
| 例句 | One congressman opposed having a fair at all and out of sheer cussedness voted for Cumberland Gap. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We thought it was plain old cussedness that kept him in that park, day after day, rain or shine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Buried within was a streak of cussedness that acidified the sweetness of his lines. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z We might live on and on and on, through sheer cussedness. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Turns out, President Trump and I aren’t total opposites 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It certainly won’t guarantee you a perfect baby, since it doesn’t detect autism or cerebral palsy or just plain cussedness. Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z Is her daughter really possessed by Alice’s spirit, or is she just messing with her mother’s head out of pure cussedness? Review: Relive the whirlwind that was 'Wham!' from the inside out 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z People keep stubbornly trying to find their joy, their best summer, driven by optimism or just sheer cussedness. Opinion | I Never Knew How Golden My Summers Were 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “Let us have tenderness but also a dash of cussedness and tragedy,” Meed promises early on. Review: Why do Americans idolize dumb Big Men? A delightful new spoof of the Tall Tale 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z As Mr. Howard noted, Mr. Brimley came by his cussedness naturally. Wilford Brimley, ‘Cocoon’ Star and Quaker Oats Pitchman, Is Dead at 85 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z All season, the Nats have been defined by their resilience — but also by their cussedness. Perspective | The Nationals’ wild-card win was both thrilling and emotionally exhausting. Of course it was. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Retrieving a lost path requires a certain cussedness. The Search for England’s Forgotten Footpaths 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s a certain cussedness to my personality that means, as soon as someone says, “No, that’s not for you,” I absolutely have to know about it. Swearing Is Good For You—And Chimps Do It, Too 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z His pitches hover at about the league average; he dominates with savvy, control and cussedness. Cubs Lose, but It’s Too Early for Ghosts to Rise 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z But the Richard Nixon who got elected in 1968 would not be a remotely viable presidential candidate in today’s GOP, and Collins remains a Republican out of sheer Maine cussedness, or for embarrassing personal reasons. No, Hillary Clinton isn’t a Republican — but the resemblance is striking 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Is this just sheer cussedness—or, maybe, a show of deference to conservative interest groups who rely, for their victories, more on unelected judges than on Congress? Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court Strategy 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z However, hollow trees are so common that a thoughtful ecologist might wonder if there were more to it than mere cussedness in the face of adversity. Blood earth 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z This is proof, if any were needed, of the sheer cussedness of the Murdoch empire—and hints at the savage competition in the British newspaper industry. Thanks for the mammaries 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Then you need a critical mass of cussedness on top of talent. At World Series, some question, ‘Where are Nationals?’ And some answers are apparent The first is that Google's cheery technological determinism may be obstructed by human cussedness, as manifested in a refusal to trust the technology. Do autonomous cars need to cost so much? 2013-06-01T23:04:09Z The eternal spat showcased all the worst aspects of professional boxing, and cynics rightly wondered whether pride and cussedness would again rob fans of a fight everyone – including the fighters – wanted. Manny Pacquiao contemplates greatest fight that may never happen 2013-05-07T15:43:14Z He's trying to tame his country's demons when many see ornery cussedness as a founding virtue. A battle for America's soul 2012-11-05T02:07:30Z Those fouls are a Werth trademark, a misleading show of weakness that actually measures his determination and cussedness. Thomas Boswell: The playoffs arrive in earnest, and it was worth the wait 2012-10-12T01:47:03Z In the circumstances, the presence of a considerable crowd for the morning session was either a triumph for hope over experience or a monument to their fabled cussedness. Yorkshire almost certainly need to win to displace Derbyshire at summit 2012-08-16T08:41:31Z The Southern rebel went with the current; the Northern rebel rowed against the current from pure, simple cussedness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Therefore Hopalong gave no thought to his horse, for while cinches, pommel, and rope held, the small, wiry, wild-eyed bundle of galvanic cussedness would hold the cow despite all its efforts to get up. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z If Arthur Lyttelton, out of pure cussedness, wishes to put in the note you speak of, I would like to see what it is he says, starting from the materials buried in my letter. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z He talks to me, understand, and'—here a pause—'he puts all sorts of cussedness on the blink. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z He arouses 30 in me a feeling of rebellion and plain "cussedness." Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z By starting on the sure basis that she will act with cussedness, either overt or concealed, be it remembered. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Once in a while I meet with a really, through-and-through good man like Adam Bain, and then I have to reconstruct my whole formula of the average cussedness of human nature.” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z "On my part," he said, "I regretted that I did not further set forth my general cussedness and undesirability.—How well you drive!" he said, by way of relieving the stress of the moment. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z For a start there was the sheer cussedness of England and their then captain, Martin Johnson. Six Nations 2011: Why Ireland won't risk playing into England's hands 2011-03-18T00:05:02Z They don't murder just for cussedness and they don't mangle. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z There is little wrong with Sarries' team spirit, nor their collective cussedness. Leicester 14-15 Saracens 2011-03-07T00:06:02Z The savage, when you find him without the cussedness taught by the white man, makes a pretty good citizen. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z If we stayed with her we should probably quarrel like cats, and maybe even kill each other out of pure human cussedness. Friend Island 2011-02-28T03:00:33.693Z As before remarked, I can put forward no better explanation than a streak of “cussedness” in my red mount. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Pure cussedness, I think, coupled with the fact that I've never troubled myself to be even civil to him. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z Such feisty vignettes secured Azinger's status as the Yank every European wanted to see beaten even if, secretly, they admired his ability as a golfer and cussedness as a man. 'The US will be Ryder Cup underdogs' 2010-09-24T11:14:00Z For some NYers the survival might well be the sheer cussedness of the locals…what afterlife would be so anxious to welcome such kvetches, schemers and seeming malcontents? Better Health in the Big Apple 2010-06-29T18:20:00Z Better teams have won European titles but none has ever had quite the same warrior mentality or sheer cussedness exuded by O'Gara, Paul O'Connell and their ilk at Thomond Park down the years. Munster's Ronan O'Gara ready for Northampton in Heineken Cup crunch 2010-04-06T21:00:00Z Then came in the "cussedness" of the wire which substituted "girl" for "Gil," and hence the temporary ructions when the happy husband, having succeeded with his latchkey, sought repose. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone She flies from hat-trimming to sewing and baking and nursing and back to sewing, and she never earns much anywhere, and works up trouble just for pure cussedness. The Reclaimers But I played a heap and made enough trouble for the neighbors to win me a gilt-edged certificate in cussedness. The Shadow There is a law of cussedness, I am convinced, and I believe I have discovered it. Windyridge “Nine whole feet from stub of tail to snoot, plumb full of cussedness, too.” The Orphan There is a modicum of cussedness, sometimes vague, sometimes more pronounced, inherent in most children. Harley Greenoak's Charge This trick is a common enough one in the ‘cussedness’ of equine economy. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance In some cases one can only impute a review of an unfavourable character to what the Americans call “pure cussedness.” Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself Now and again he would try my patience by some outbreak of mulish cussedness, but I remembered his character and training, and had no difficulty in keeping myself in hand. A Frontier Mystery Since then the Americans have coined a word for that state of mind—"cussedness." An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections He knew that both Vaornese and Lagashites were deeply involved in something they called Operation Weed, and approved of it thoroughly either from sheer cussedness or addiction. Insidekick Perhaps this is a part of what Artemus Ward calls the “cussedness” of things in general; but at any rate we must admit that if “like attracts like,” it attracts unlike too. Maids Wives and Bachelors Just out of cussedness the break-up was ten days late, the ten longest days I ever put in, but eventually it came, and a week later also came the mail. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure His tone was abominably provoking, moreover I knew that he would be glad enough to return, and had only said the foregoing out of sheer cussedness. A Frontier Mystery And, more out of cussedness,—as Jake would put it,—than anything else, I kept plodding along slowly, neither increasing nor diminishing the distance between us. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia Infuriated, uncompromising, believing this to be merely the cussedness natural with the native horses, he abandoned all hope of instant success and gave way to brutality. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Thanks to his own natural cussedness, I've just fixed your schoolmaster beautifully. The Recipe for Diamonds But when the track come in, and the higher civilization come in a-yelling with it and spread itself, Palomitas could give points to the Cañada in cussedness all down the line. Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town If he had taken my warning in time, all would have been well; but for some reason or other—I suspect cussedness—he did not. A Frontier Mystery "If she doesn't, it will be pure cussedness on her part, and nothing else," said Jim. Name and Fame A Novel At that hour he gave them a talk for what he called their long-eared cussedness, and laid down a little law and wound up with a number of reasonable explanations for the same. In the Shadow of the Hills However, this hasn’t anything to do with his general cussedness, but concerns his offence against the young lady. A Waif of the Mountains What I wanted, and wanted as the fellow did his pistol in Texas, was first-class slumber, just such unmitigated repose as occasionally comes to a highly organized baby, unvexed by colic or pure cussedness. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside He was meditating rather gloomily upon the innate cussedness of human nature as it was developed in Black Rim Country. Rim o' the World They will eat all sorts of things, even wood, mud, and pieces of coal, as if from sheer cussedness. War Letters of a Public-School Boy I reckon likely you think I break jail every time you get me in just out of pure cussedness. With Hoops of Steel While among the trappers and the Indians themselves he is known as the carcajo, or as bad dog—which is the Indian's idea of absolute cussedness and degeneracy. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country Whether he kept it up from habit or pure cussedness I can’t tell, but that’s the real reason Billy would never go into his father’s business—he couldn’t stand his meanness. Seven Miles to Arden There’s a long, cruel story back of her marriage to Tank—a story of deception, 152 coercion, love of money, and all the elements of common cussedness—too common to make a good story. Winning the Wilderness Ignorant Barbarians may be destructive on general principles, but fanatical Ecclesiasticism has ever been destructive of all light, knowledge and civilization, through insane hatred or pure “cussedness”! The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology As we walked up and down, Tony talked between tears and anger—tears for himself and George, anger at the cussedness of things. A Poor Man's House Besides, we do not believe he is responsible for the cussedness of his newspaper. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 It's more for the excitement of it, half the time, than from real native cussedness, that boys begin; an' I didn't think one way or another. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science You wouldn’t if I dared to tell you all of Jim’s cussedness, but some things I’m sworn to secrecy on. Winning the Wilderness "Yes, run it with a yeast barometer, a straw bottom, a pinwheel compass, and your general cussedness of disposition," shouted Mayo into the whirl of the wind, his anxiety whetting his much-tried temper. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 But Sam said it was "jest pure cussedness." Days Off And Other Digressions Here's where you plunge—it is a gamble, a bet on the seed versus the eternal cussedness of things. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen I towed him over the stern running down the trades to take the cussedness out of him, and if he had not been born for higher things, he'd have drowned. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea I'm sore at everything because I'm dissatisfied with my own cussedness and laziness—and I want to pass the buck. The Straw Nearly all my life, you must understand, I have maintained the view that the generally accepted theory of the 'cussedness of things' is all wrong. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 There's just two things in your life, just as there's always been, your work and your German cussedness. The Forbidden Trail But our commander, though brave, was unfortunately one of those men who are also gifted with a great deal of “pure cussedness,” and think that the exhibiting it is a sign of bravery. Memoirs Some men learn the cussedness of whiskey by having a drunken father; and some by having a good mother. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." Sometimes it's sciatica, more often a punk digestion, and seldom pure cussedness. The House of Torchy "And this converted you to the 'cussedness' theory?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 A little downright cussedness helps to clear the air occasionally; but cussèd is the one thing Ramsdell isn't. The Brentons The two first boys of creation were not bad fellows at all, although as was natural, their bringing up resulted in a general condition of pure cussedness that at times became appalling to their parents. The Autobiography of Methuselah That is the one end of a college education which is pure cussedness; and that is the one thing which makes nine business men out of ten hesitate to send their boys off to school. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." They were Bavarians alternating with Marines, and we soon learned that for genuine low-down cussedness the Marine had them all beaten, although the Bavarians and Prussians were pretty bad. The Emma Gees It takes all the bad diseases out of you and a good deal of the cussedness. Watch Yourself Go By Presumably out of pure cussedness the hospitals stayed where they were; and inevitably they were bombed. With Our Army in Palestine It's pure accident I happen to be here at all; accident which comes of unadulterated cussedness on the part of one of my horses. North of Fifty-Three When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he’s got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." Reckoned that Bud was up to some cussedness off somewhere, and that he wouldn't answer for any two-bits. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Now that I hark back, the only men as I can remember that amounted to enough to make you willing to overlook their cussedness, was men as had a handicap in looks. Joyce of the North Woods "Yes, he has," said Mike, "but it is just like his cussedness to pretend he don't know me." Billy Whiskers The Autobiography of a Goat Only it seems rather far-fetched for your poet to blame inanimate matter for the cussedness of humanity in general. North of Fifty-Three But all the time that mule will be getting meaner and meaner inside, adding compound cussedness every thirty days, and practicing drop kicks in his stall after dark. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." November 19th.—One day is like another in its cussedness. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Society calls it anarchy, and parents call it "unnatural cussedness;" in religion it is "freedom of the children of God!" Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals It is the primeval element, the "pure cussedness" which has to be conquered, or adjusted in every human being. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul We want the signature of every man that went out there that night, full of cussedness and bad whiskey.... An Alabaster Box Through the hot black breath of the burning boat Jim Bludso’s voice was heard; And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knew he would keep his word. Health and Education As a consequence of his cussedness, we missed the morning boat train to Flushing, and had to spend the day in that charming city. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium “We never waste effort,” sed Satan to me; “he carries enough natural cussedness about him, all the time, to sink him, without pilin any devilment on his shoulders wich is ten days old.” "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. What would they have left to scare folks with, and make them hand over their dollars, and what, O what! vent could they have for their own natural, pure cussedness? Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Prohibition means more of everything good, and less of everything bad; more manhood, less meanness; more gain, less groans; more bread, less brawls; more clothing, less cussedness; less heartaches and more happiness. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures Look here, Lydia," he began, "Levine is up to some new cussedness. Lydia of the Pines In this state, one cannot recover for trespass unless one keeps one's fences in repair—and Loustalot used to trespass on our range quite frequently and then blame his cussedness on our fences. The Pride of Palomar Is it defects of administration, or a certain "cussedness" in the Scotch character, which resents any tightening of law? The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Some of our enterprising clients, who are not habitual commuters and who live in a state of single cussedness, might try it some time. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned "If you were not my own idolized wife, I should say that was 'pure cussedness.'" The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure You have cussedness instead and cussedness is a thing you can never be sure of. Captivity His master wouldn't let him buy himself and his wife,—I suspect, out of sheer cussedness,—and he hadn't any other use for money, he said. What Answer? Nobody, at any rate in the comfortable clubs, seems even to consider that the original cause of the warfare is aught but a homicidal cussedness on the part of the unions.... Your United States Impressions of a first visit I joined in the pleading and wailing out of sheer cussedness, I suppose. The Road He put in the whole of yesterday working out all the cussedness that's been accumulating in his system for a week, so he's dead gentle. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories If she did happen to finish up—out of sheer cussedness and desire to make a sensation, next week, you'd be the victim of a ghost, Louis! Captivity The opportunities which the best-drawn federal constitution offers for outbreaks of what Americans call "pure cussedness"—that is, for the indulgence of anarchical tendencies and impulses—is greater than in any other. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Pass the raising of ostrich chicks to full size through the difficulties of disease, wild beasts, and sheer cussedness. African Camp Fires It's long odds I shall find points of resemblance a-plenty between us—and the more cussedness he develops, the more I shall see myself in him reflected. The Range Dwellers Preaching often drives one wrong out of sheer 'cussedness,' I suppose. Flames I knew that Viola is obstinate, and that if she starts by turning you down she'll keep it up out of sheer cussedness. The Belfry Some ascribed it to pure "khaki cussedness"; others maintained that the Military aimed at stretching the duration of the Siege to six months—that they might be lifted by a short cut to promotion. The Siege of Kimberley I was fighting out of cussedness at first. The Last Shot There is a martyrlike sort of cussedness about him that is several degrees worse than any pride. Greatheart For my part, if this is not put forward as an alternative scheme, I shall vote for tunnelling under the Gardens out of simple cussedness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Ironic feelings in this matter on the part of western men are based somewhat on envy and illegitimate cussedness, but are also grounded in the honest hope of a healthful rivalry. The Art of the Moving Picture I knew just such a thing as this would happen to me in my old age for a long life of cussedness. The Daredevil Such is his inherent cussedness that we would rather let him warp in the oven of his own half-baked knowledge. Laugh and Live The Happy Family knew that Luck was wading chin deep in the slough of despond, and they decided that he kept them riding all day just for pure cussedness. The Phantom Herd He told me that he never would have believed twelve goats could cover so much cussedness in a day. Casey Ryan A boy doesn't pick up cuss-words when his mother's around or learn cussedness from his father. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Fashion is the parent of both—"cussedness" and consumption. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. As a leader he had twice utterly demoralized teams in previous races, and it was "not unlikely," declared the prophets of evil, "that he would blow up on the Trail out of pure cussedness." Baldy of Nome Anton considers the death of Hackenschmidt to have been an act of 'cussedness'—the result of a determination to do no work for the Expedition!! Scott's Last Expedition Volume I He thought it was just old age and general cussedness. Casey Ryan After all, there was more in Percy than cussedness, for when he finally decided that it was a case of root hog or die with him, he turned in and rooted. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son But they are not only worthless; they actually imperil your soul because of their exasperating ways and general cussedness. Modern India Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness, but without malice. Burning Daylight He had been made that-a-way in a reform school where they took him young and tried to work the cussedness out'n him by batting him around. Danny's Own Story It is the incarnation of cussedness, the avatar of evil. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Of course Si wasn't exactly consistent in this, but, as he used to say, it's the consistent men who keep the devil busy, because no one's ever really consistent except in his cussedness. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son You got to get more iron and cussedness into you. Main Street I guess it's just pure cussedness, and a hankerin' for a new investment. Buttered Side Down: Stories In that moment I forgave all my friends and relations for their wickedness and cussedness, and I blessed them. Three Men in a Boat All the cussedness of the bovine race is centred in the cow. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories She wasn't held up for a solid week out of pure cussedness. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Why doesn't conscience ply its blessed trade before the act, Before one's cussedness becomes a bald, accomplished fact— Before one's fallen victim to the Tempter's stratagem And blown in twenty dollars by nine o'clock a.m.? Songs and Other Verse Me," he said to himself, "a hard old man calloused by years of professional contact with mankind and consequent knowledge of their general cussedness! The Calling of Dan Matthews "A kind of natural cussedness, I guess," put in Jack. A Columbus of Space I had no particular motive, it wur just out of cussedness. In the Heart of the Rockies The cussedness of the inanimate was strong in this pen: since its reservoir was quite empty it mulishly refused more service without refilling. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf I used to think it stuck there out of simple, pure cussedness. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Then I would look to see how the sun was getting on, and sometimes I thought it had stuck from pure cussedness. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. Opposing this colossal aggregation of wealth and cussedness were the thousands of hard-driven and exploited lumberworkers in the woods and sawmills. The Centralia Conspiracy It war just a piece of cussedness, and I have asked myself forty-eleven times since, what on arth made me make such a blame fool of myself. In the Heart of the Rockies All kinds of theories were advanced, such as poison, malaria from Indiana, and pure cussedness. Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus He stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his cussedness squeezed out. Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 You've stood by and put up with my cussedness through these three devilish years. The Iron Woman That's the way to talk to people who don't want their right hand to know what cussedness their left hand is up to. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century I have a way of bringin' everybody down to my own level, kid, and I find, except for that commandment about stealin', we all have about the same amount of cussedness in us some'eres. The Rose in the Ring We have seen several elephants in various stages of cussedness. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations She had been placed in this institution under legal restraint to be treated for morphinism, and, according to her brother, "pure cussedness." Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness They do all the mean things they can think of, and they do them just out of pure cussedness, and nothing else. Sketches New and Old, Part 6. None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. Following the Equator, Part 7 Well, some people call it religion and some call it cussedness, begging your pardon, Mrs. Dr. dear, for using such a word. Rainbow Valley Any trainer can teach an animal the difference between the blessings of peace and the horrors of war, or in other words, obedience and good temper versus cussedness and punishment. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations This was folly, for the ground was not cold and he had no excuse for stealing a body-warmed place to lie down; it was pure cussedness, and retribution followed hard upon the act. Bar-20 Days A better one than the usual divorce court result of some 'society' marriages,"—said Maryllia, calmly—"Anyhow, I'd rather risk single blessedness than united 'cussedness'! God's Good Man In this quality of irredeemable cussedness it resembles the emu's nest. Such Is Life I don't know how he felt when we quit, but I know I respected him—for his out and open cussedness and grit, if nothin' else. The Rise of Roscoe Paine He could understand pure cussedness, but it did not seem to be that either. Where Angels Fear to Tread If there was any "cussedness" afoot, Seth, convinced of Cressy's unfaithfulness, and with no further hope of any mediation from the parents, would know it. Cressy I was not in love with her myself; I'm afraid it was simply mischief—pure 'cussedness' on my part. The Idiot Why, he reckons th' Lord never brewed a more high-toned brand of cussedness than his'n. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up There is a heap of 'cussedness' mixed up with your usual amiability, and you are at times too fond of a fight. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller Some moskeeters are fat, but these don't get a square meal often enough to be anything but hide-racks filled with cussedness. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights But those mules know a motor truck, and what they did was pure cussedness. One of Ours You would have thought that a ship so full of deadly tricks would run herself ashore some day out of sheer cussedness. A Set of Six When By-and-by saw what he was expected to ride he felt somewhat relieved, for the pony did not appear to have more than the ordinary amount of cussedness. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Humor just seems to bring out all your cussedness. Waifs and Strays Part 1 I don't suppose many of you would believe the innate cussedness of a burro when it wants to be that way. The Trail of the White Mule I mused upon the wickedness of the world and of everybody in it, and the general cussedness of all things. Diary of a Pilgrimage When he became a little acquainted, his innate cussedness induced him to raise a riot in the prison. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries So if I have talked sharp to you, my cussedness is really due to envy. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it This combination aroused such a natural state of invalid cussedness on my part that they were all forced to retire. Waifs and Strays Part 1 He made camp there that night, pitching his little tent in the trail for pure cussedness, and defying aloud a traveling world to make him move until he got good and ready. The Trail of the White Mule He might as well have taken his time, for Lovin Child was in one of his fits of temper, the kind that his grandmother invariably called his father's cussedness coming out in him. Cabin Fever The general cussedness of all this investigation business had me puzzled, until at last I made up my mind to do a little investigating on my own account. The Riverman |
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