Vulgar words in Redgauntlet (Page 1)
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'The mischievous bastard!' exclaimed the Quaker, terrified out of his usual moderation of speech-'the doomed gallows-bird!-he will break Solomon's wind to a certainty.'
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At length-as common sense will get the better in all cases when a man will but give it fair play-I began to stand convicted in my own mind, as an ass before the interview, for having expected too much-an ass during the interview, for having failed to extract the lady's real purpose-and an especial ass, now that it was over, for thinking so much about it.
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'Damn your crowns!' said the disinterested man of music.
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'But his spunk's soon out of him, I think,' continued the stranger, 'and that is like mony a man's courage, that thinks he wad do great things till he come to the proof.'
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My gudesire uttered mony thanks, and was about to retire when Sir Robert roared aloud, 'Stop, though, thou sack-doudling son of a whore!
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They are such smuggling blackguards, that they must run in their very music; but I'll sort them waur than ony gauger in the country.-Stay-hark-it 's no a fiddle neither-it's the pipe and tabor bastard, Simon of Sowport, frae the Nicol Forest; but I'll pipe and tabor him!-Let me hae ance my left hand on his cravat, and ye shall see what my right will do.
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What an ass was I, Alan, not to have anticipated her wishes!
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To which she answered, 'Nay, but thof your honour be a little how-come-so, you shouldn't damn folk's faders; and I won't stand to it, for one.'
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Odd, his father would brain him if he went to Carloisle, bating to wrestling for the belt, or sic loike.
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Notwithstanding all this, Alan, it might be DOOTED, as our old Professor used to say, whether the Justice was anything more then an ass.
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The Justice was an ass, that was clear; but if was scarcely possible he could be so utterly ignorant as not to know what was necessary in so plain a case as mine.
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he is an ass notwithstanding; and his functionary in the drab coat must have a shrewd guess at the consequences of being accessory to an act of murder or kidnapping.
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What do your folk in the country think about the disturbances that are beginning to spunk out in the colonies?'
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'I have heard of such a gentleman in the country-side, but have no acquaintance with him,' answered Mr. Trumbull; 'he is, as I have heard, a Papist; for the whore that sitteth on the seven hills ceaseth not yet to pour forth the cup of her abomination on these parts.'
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Nanty Ewart was soon heard calling about, 'Break open yon chest-take out your capful, you bastard of a powder-monkey; we may want it again.
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as Othello says, "his love a whore," in face of the whole congregation.
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Alan Fairford had never more difficulty in his life to subdue a first emotion, than he had to refrain from knocking down the crazy blockhead who had broken in upon him at such a moment.
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'I gave the bastard a penny to buy me snuff,' said the pauper, 'and he has rendered no account of his intromissions; but I'll gar him as gude.'
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SPULE-BLADE, shoulder blade, SPUNK, courage, fire: SPUNKS, matches.