Vulgar words in Martin Eden (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
damn x 11
make love x 5
poppycock x 1
scrap x 3
            

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The air I always breathed was mixed up with grub an' house-rent an' scrappin' an booze an' that's all they talked about, too.

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Smell them, damn you, smell them.

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damn you!

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You'll stay over, an' send your books dawn by express, or else you're a damn fool."

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damn you!

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Yet he did not know how to make love to a girl like Ruth.

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It was all right enough, down whence he had come, for youths and maidens to win each other by contact; but for the exalted personages up above on the heights to make love in similar fashion had seemed unthinkable.

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Don't tell me that anybody in this world ever made love that way.

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Why, if I'd made love to you in such fashion, you'd have boxed my ears."

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Then it was all poppycock, two cents a word for minimum rate and payment upon acceptance.

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"Hermann says-" "Damn Hermann!" he broke out good-naturedly.

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"Pompous old ass!"

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Damn them, all of them, the crass manikins!"

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Serve her and damn the multitude!

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She had made love the strongest thing in him, increased its power a myriad per cent with her gift of imagination, and sent him forth into the ephemera to thrill and melt and mate.

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And you know the doctor says-damn the doctor!

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Usually the girls screamed when the fellows got to scrapping, but she had not screamed.

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"You're not a brute, and you're a damn poor Nietzscheman.

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And it's a damn shame."

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What they liked, and were willing to scrap for, was just Mart Eden, one of the bunch and a pretty good guy.

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"He got mad when I spoke of interest, an' he said damn the principal and if I mentioned it again, he'd punch my Dutch head off.

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And I still believe that Herbert Spencer is a great and noble man and that Judge Blount is an unmitigated ass.

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