Vulgar words in The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (Page 2)
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They sat alone in her private room, where, without prelude, she discharged a fiery squib at impudent hussies caught up to the saddle-bow of a hero for just a canter, and pretending to a permanent seat beside him.
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The party of Lady Charlotte Eglett called on the livid cloud-bank aforesaid to discharge celestial bolts and sulphur oil on the head of an impudent, underbred, ambitious young slut, whose arts had bewitched a distinguished nobleman not young in years at least, and ensnared the remainder wits of some principal ancient ladies of the land.
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'Only not what the boys used to call "cocky,"' said Selina.
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So the principal noblemen and gentlemen concerned thought it prudent to hurry the young woman into the house and bar the door; and there she was very soon stripped of veil and blonde false wig with long curls, the whole framing of her artificial resemblance to Countess Fanny, and she proved to be a good-looking foreign maid, a dark one, powdered, trembling very much, but not so frightened upon hearing that her penalty for the share she had taken in the horrid imposture practised upon them was to receive and return a salute from each of the gentlemen in rotation; which the hussy did with proper submission; and Jack Potts remarked, that 'it was an honest buss, but dear at ten thousand!'
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To listen to the tattle of a chatting little slut, and condemn the whole sex upon her testimony, is a nice idea of justice.
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'And how could the jackass expect to keep his luck!
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But what made him turn himself into a headlong ass, when he had only to wait a night to sit among friends and worshippers drinking off his tumbler upon tumbler with the honours?
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and that was why the Earl of Fleetwood backed our cocky Kitty, and means to land him on the top of his profession.
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Her stature rose to battle heights: she made play with Sir Meeson Corby's ebony stick, using it in one hand as a dwarf quarterstaff to flail the sconces, then to dash the point at faces; and she being a woman, a girl, perhaps a lady, her cool warrior method of cleaving way, without so much as tightening her lips, was found notable; and to this degree (vouched for by Rose Mackrell, who heard it), that a fellow, rubbing his head, cried: 'Damn it all, she's clever, though!'
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the golden jackass, tethered and goaded!
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'Benefit, you hussy, and mind you don't pull too stiff.'
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The end in design is to win the ear by making a fuss, and roll event upon event for the braining of common intelligence, until her narrative resembles dusty troopings along a road to the races.
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The man pretending to philosophical depth was at any rate honest; one could swear to the honesty of the girl, though she had been a reckless hussy.
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I see the means it is to damn the soul, unless we--unless a man does what I do now.'
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Thereupon, carrying a leaden burden of unlaughed laughable stuff in his breast, and Chummy's concluding remark to speed him: 'Damn it, no, we'll stick to our religion!'
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Logic like yours, my boy, would have you go on picking at the Gordian Knot till it became a jackasses' race between you and the rope which was to fall to pieces last.--There 's my old girl at the stall, poor soul!
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And if we'd go on joking to the end we should content them, if only by justifying their opinion that we're born buffoons.'
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The fellow was a perfect riddle, hard to read as the zebra lines on the skin of a wild jackass--if Providence intended any meaning when she traced them!
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'A Swabian blockhead, aren't you?'
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'Mr. Smith,' my husband said and you never saw a man so shocked as my husband at being obliged to hear them at one another Mr. Smith used the word damn.
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The contemplation of the contrast, too, may save me from both: like the logic ass with the two trusses of hay on either side of him.
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When I was in the dock she show'd her nerve: I saw beneath her shawl my old tea-can Trembling... she brought it To screw me for my work: she loath'd my plan, And therefore doubly kind I thought it.
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Perchance my heart may pardon you this deed: But be no coward:- you that made Love bleed, You must bear all the venom of his tooth!
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what scene Can beat a Jackass on a green?'
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Wherever Beauty show'd The wonders of her face, This man his Jackass rode, High despot of the place.
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The very Ass participates The glory Freedom radiates!
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Her passion for old giantkind, That scaled the mount, uphurled the rock, Devolves on them who read aright Her meaning and devoutly serve; Nor in her starlessness of night Peruse her with the craven nerve: But even as she from grass to corn, To eagle high from grubbing mole, Prove in strong brain her noblest born, The station for the flight of soul.
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The sighting brain her good decree Accepts; obeys those guides, in faith, By reason hourly fed, that she, To some the clod, to some the wraith, Is more, no mask; a flame, a stream.
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that gives him a naming Base to the ear as an ass's bray.