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From: "Jo Ann Hinkle" <joann@piasanet.com>
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>Jo Ann Hinkle does not supply the context but if we are talking
>about the casual use of f... as pure expletive or f... X as imprecation or
>f...ing as abusive epithet  . . .

>From Michael Curtis Ford's The Ten Thousand:

 '"The rain had now hardened into a driving sleet, and I slithered through
the frozen mud up to Xenophon's shoulders, facing the fletching of the
arrow, then reached down and seized the shaft,again bracing my sandle on his
hipbone to give me added purchase.
	"No idiot, don't pull-push!"
	"What?"
	"Push the fucking arrow until it comes out the other side.  You'll tear the
muscle of my leg if you pull." '  (p. 10)


Jo Ann Hinkle


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