Vulgar words in Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life (Page 1)
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'Blood and breeding and tradition--all the grand stuff that's been grown in them on the NOBLESSE OBLIGE principle--self-respect, courage, dignity--the stuff that gives staying power as well as the fire for making good spunk.... Not that I'd put a pure-blood racer to haul up logs for an iron-bark fence: any more than I'd set out to plant an English lady of that sort to rough it on the Leura.'
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'And if I wasn't a rich man, and didn't give a big order, they wouldn't care a twopenny damn for me.'
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I said it hadn't only to do with men making love to me--my ideas about a different life.
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She was used to the ordinary 'damn,' but these oaths were so horribly coarse.
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You can take it from us, boys, he's the meanest cuss that ever downed a harmless nigger....
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'Damn you!
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'I wouldn't care a cuss whether he went after the black-gin or not; she's a half-caste, by the way, and all the worse for that.
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The spunk had gone out of him, as Harris would have phrased it; and the Inspector, looking at Lady Bridget, guessed the reason.
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McKeith muttered angrily, 'Damn!
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Last evening when they were walking together on the veranda he had begun again to make love to her, and in still more passionate earnest--had held her hands--had tried to kiss her.
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I'm pretty well knocked up, I can tell you.
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Next she discovered that rain was pattering on the zinc roof, and that the violent concussions she felt beneath her must be due to the horns of goats knocking up against the boards of her bedroom.
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The ferocious chuckle of a great grey king-fisher--the bird which white people called the laughing jackass--perched on the branch of a gum tree beside the fence, made her shudder, because the bird's soulless cachinnation seemed an echo of Colin's laugh.
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'Damn your report.
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I was an insane ass ever to imagine that I and my way of living could ever fit in with a woman brought up like you.
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Except for a fiend of a laughing-jackass in a gum tree close by the veranda that drives me mad with his devilish chuckling.