Vulgar words in The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 (Page 1)
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"The Laird of Black-at-the-Bane had a natural son bred to the kirk, that the Presbytery could not be prevailed upon to license; and so" "Ay, ye need say nae mair about it; if there was a laird that had a puir kinsman or a bastard that it wad suit, there's enough said.-And ye're e'en come back to Liberton to wait for dead men's shoon?-and for as frail as Mr. Whackbairn is, he may live as lang as you, that are his assistant and successor."
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"Then damn Mass John and you baith!" cried the furious and intractable patient.
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The clergyman and doctor made a speedy retreat out of the apartment, while Dumbiedikes fell into one of those transports of violent and profane language, which had procured him the surname of Damn-me-dikes.
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Rebecca was therefore compelled to leave the Laird to proceed at his own snail's pace, convinced, by experience, of the grave-digger's aphorism, that your dull ass will not mend his pace for beating.
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He only regretted that she should live under the same roof with such a worldly-wise man as Bartoline Saddletree, whom David never suspected of being an ass as he was, but considered as one really endowed with all the legal knowledge to which he made pretension, and only liked him the worse for possessing it.
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But we are aware there has been, at times, a sort of bastard and fiery zeal in some of your order, and those, men irreproachable in other points, which has led them into doing and countenancing great irregularities, by which the peace of the country is liable to be shaken.-I will deal plainly with you.
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"Weel, Rat," replied Sharpitlaw, "since ye are nice, I'll speak to the hussy mysell."
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"One woman," said Sharpitlaw,-for, like all rogues, he was a great calumniator of the fair sex,*-"one woman is enough to dark the fairest ploy that was ever planned; and how could I be such an ass as to expect to carry through a job that had two in it?
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The man who had spoken, no other than our old friend, Dumbiedikes, whose mouth, like that of the prophet's ass, had been opened by the emergency of the case, now joined them, and, with his usual taciturnity, escorted them into the Court-house.
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"Ay, but, neighbour," said Miss Damahoy, drawing up her thin maidenly form to its full height of prim dignity-"I really think this unnatural business of having bastard-bairns should be putten a stop to.-There isna a hussy now on this side of thirty that you can bring within your doors, but there will be chields-writer-lads, prentice-lads, and what not-coming traiking after them for their destruction, and discrediting ane's honest house into the bargain-I hae nae patience wi' them."