Vulgar words in Maurice Guest (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
damn x 9
hussy x 1
make love x 1
snag x 2
            

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"And this," he said, "from the learned ass who is not yet convinced that the FEUERZAUBER is music, and who groans like a dredge when the last act of SIEGFRIED is mentioned.

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Whereupon, before Maurice could say "damn!" he was gone again, leaving his elfin laugh behind him in the air, like smoke.

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"Damn him for a fool!" he said savagely to himself, and found an outlet for his irritation in repeating these words aloud.

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"Damn your 'WENIG SONNE!'"

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"Damn you, Heinz!" cried Schilsky, striking the table.

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Damn them all!--old and young----I say.

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"Oh, quit it, you double-barrelled ass!" said the American.

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You'll have to look after the other--now, damn me, if there isn't another of you as well!" and, from under the table, he drew out a recumbent body.

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For while you were cringing before him, and aspiring to die for his sake, he was making love behind your back to another girl.

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The solitude was unbroken; they might have gone down in the murky water, and no one would ever know how it had happened: a snag caught unawares; a clumsy movement in the light boat; half a minute, and all would be over.--Or, for the first and the last time in his life, he would take her in his arms, hold her to him, feel her cheek on his; he would kiss her, with kisses that were at once an initiation and a farewell; then, covering her eyes with his hands, he would gently, very gently, tilt the boat.

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A man of your age!--the father of four children!--and this ugly little hussy of seventeen!

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A "Damn your interference!" meant plain-speaking, on both sides; it meant a bandying of words; and more expenditure of strength than he had to spare for Dove.

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Take your hands off this lady, damn you!" he cried in broken German, not recognising Maurice, and believing that he had to deal with an ordinary NACHTSCHWARMER.

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"Damn you!" retorted Maurice in English.

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Some workmen, tramping townwards soon after dawn, noticed a strip of light stuff twisted round a snag, which projected slightly above the surface of the water.

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