Vulgar words in Basil (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
damn x 4
make love x 1
            

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Women of this exclusively modern order, like to use slang expressions in their conversation; assume a bastard-masculine abruptness in their manners, a bastard-masculine licence in their opinions; affect to ridicule those outward developments of feeling which pass under the general appellation of "sentiment."

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"Suppose you were in Miss Margaret's place, would you like to be made love to, by your father's authority, without your own wishes being consulted first?

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He just told me that he had reasons for keeping his family affairs to himself--nothing more--but you know the way he has with him; and, damn it, he put the stopper on me, from that time to this.

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"Damn it, Mrs. S.!" roared her husband in a fury, "will you hold your tongue?

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Damn your infernal coolness and your aristocratic airs and graces!

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I don't care a damn about you or your father!

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