You have not the instinct which has been given to some dogs, and which enables them, for their master's protection, to detect persons harbouring evil intentions towards them; but when you meet with a boy or man careless in his conversation, a swearer, or expressing irreligious or immoral opinions, however courteous and agreeable he may otherwise be, do not associate with him a moment longer than you can help, or he will rob you of what is of far more value than a purse of gold.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
But, at sight, he loved the horse-faced, almost middle-aged swearer of strange oaths and smoker of strong cigars.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
"Sporadic swearing," Peter called it, and explained what it meant to the children, and why he forgave that, while punishing the intentional swearer with exclusion from his favor.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford