Vulgar words in Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete (Page 1)
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The sorrel and the mare were fagged, the horses of their foes were fresh; and forty to one were odds that no man would care to take.
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There was the range of the Copper-mine hills to the south, lighted by the wan moon; and between and to the west a rough scrub country, desolating beyond words, and where even edible snakes would be scarce; spots of dead-finish, gidya, and brigalow-bush to north and east, and in the trees by the billabong the cry of the cockatoo and the laughing-jackass.
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It's only four weeks since you were court-martialed, and you escaped being reduced by the very closest shave; and yet you come and make love to me, and want me to marry you.
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She had never been made love to in this fashion.