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“I was by your place and the chickens were cussing up a storm to be fed,” she said.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

In the churches they were praying for rain,—praying hard,—for rain meant money; and in the bars they were "cussing" for lack of it,—"cussing" hard,—on the same principle.

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram