Vulgar words in Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (Page 1)
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My aunt Betsy (spinster), used to say, that if she were a man, sooner than stand that hussy's airs (meaning Mary's), in the way young Stockbridge did, she'd cut, and run to America, which, in the old lady's estimation, was the last resource left to an unfortunate human creature, before suicide.
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Yet that ass at Crediton, after I had condescended to show him, persisted his own way was the best."
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"Don't be such an ass as to hesitate," said the Doctor impatiently.
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"So I fear," said Mrs. Buckley; "but he is surely not so weak as to allow that young fellow to haunt the house, after he has had a hint that he is making love to Mary?"
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Then I says, if you do, your bastard son shall swing."
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"Who do you mean by her bastard son?"
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Mary said, with tearful indignation, that it was notorious that he was making love to Miss Burrit of Paiskow.
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One can see that he hasn't had a bastard child fathered on him by a gipsy hag.
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Below us, in the valley, a mob of jackasses were shouting and laughing uproariously, and a magpie was chanting his noble vesper hymn from a lofty tree.
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"He is quite knocked up.
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I was rather knocked up, you see, and went to sleep, and that sent it out of my head."
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He has turned to be a drunken, godless, impudent fellow, and his wife little better than himself; his daughters dowdy hussies; his sons lanky, lean, pasty-faced, blaspheming blackguards, drinking rum before breakfast, and living by cheating one another out of horses.
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That morning, this brazen hussy, as Mary very properly called her, had come coolly up to the station and asked for Charles.
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But a buck 'possum, who stealthily descends by a pillar from unknown realms of mischief on the top of the house, evidently discredits cocky's stories, and departs down the garden to see if he can find something to eat.
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I begged him to follow your father over here, and, as his own horse was knocked up, I mounted him at his own request on Jezebel, he preferring her to all the horses in the paddock on account of her beauty, after having been duly warned of her wickedness.
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In this instance he made an ass of himself, for he hesitated and stammered.
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Here is the sun getting low, and the magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.
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"Your magpie has attacked cocky, and pulled a yellow feather out of his crest, which he has planted in the flower-bed, either as a trophy, or to see if it will grow."
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What does she mean by saying that Alice made love to Sam, and never gave the "poor boy" a chance of escape?
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Laugh out, old jackass; till you fetch an echo back from the foggy hollow.
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Somehow, that exquisite line came to my remembrance,-- "'And the hare shall kindle on the cold hearth-stone,' "and I went back quietly with Donovan; and, by Jove, sir, when we came out the great ass had the tears running down his cheeks.
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("Oh, you very miserable ass," said Captain Brentwood; "to sit down and try to describe the indescribable.