Vulgar words in Red Eve (Page 1)
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~ ~ ~ Sentence 103 ~ ~ ~
Therefore, Hugh, if we meet at all it must be in these frozen reeds or behind the cover of a thicket, like a village slut and her man."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 274 ~ ~ ~
This Grey Dick," he added to the Count, "is a wild, homeless half-wit whom they call Hugh de Cressi's shadow, but the finest archer in Suffolk, with Norfolk thrown in; one who can put a shaft through every button on your doublet at fifty paces--ay, and bring down wild geese on the wing twice out of four times, for I have seen him do it with that black bow of his."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 314 ~ ~ ~
That fine fellow did well to be afraid, for had you not knocked up my hand there'd be an arrow sticking in his throat by now.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,396 ~ ~ ~
By now, as he hoped, Hugh and his death's-head, Grey Dick, a spawn of Satan that all the country feared, and who, men said, was a de Cressi bastard by a witch, were surely slain or taken by those who followed upon their heels.
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But have your way and leave me to thank God that no woman ever found a chance to clog my leg, perhaps because I was not born an ass."
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In one place they danced and sang and made love in an open square.