Vulgar words in The History of Pendennis (Page 1)
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It was in vain that Pen recalled to his own mind what a stupid ass Foker used to be at school--how he could scarcely read, how he was not cleanly in his person, and notorious for his blunders and dulness.
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Was Titania the first who fell in love with an ass, or Pygmalion the only artist who has gone crazy about a stone?
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He did not like to have to fancy that his guardian might be spying at him from that abominable Dean's grass-plat, whilst he was making love in Miss Costigan's drawing-room; and the pleasures of a walk (a delight which he was very rarely permitted to enjoy) would have been spoiled if he had met the man of the polished boots on that occasion.
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damn it, Smirke, you must be mad--she's seven or eight years older than you are."
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And he pointed his hand towards the pale, languid gentleman who said, "Don't be an ass, Ned."
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"I do not choose that questions should be asked: or, perhaps, I am an ass, and don't wish it to be said that George Warrington writes for bread.
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"'No,' says I, 'they won't: for I will not let that scamp of a Marquis send me out of the world; and if he lays a hand on me, I'll brain him, Marquis as he is.'
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"What I will not have, sir, is that you should use my name, or couple it with yours.--Damn him, Strong, why don't you keep him in better order?
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Nobody is in chambers at all, except poor Mr. Cockle, who is ill, and whose laundress is making him gruel; or Mr. Toodle, who is an amateur of the flute, and whom you may hear piping solitary from his chambers in the second floor; or young Tiger, the student, from whose open windows comes a great gush of cigar smoke, and at whose door are a quantity of dishes and covers, bearing the insignia of Dicks' or the Cock.
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"Damn it, sir!" cried out Pendennis, fiercely.
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It would have damped the spirits of the buffoon on the stage to have seen Pen's dismal face.
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only that the little devil is making love to him still.
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Not the highest position in life was this--certainly, or one which, if we had a reverence for an old man, we would be anxious that he should occupy: but of this aged buffoon it may be mentioned that he had no particular idea that his condition of life was not a high one, and that in his whiskied blood there was not a black drop, nor in his muddled brains a bitter feeling, against any mortal being.
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She had a fever when Mrs. Pendennis turned her out of doors; and she made love to the Doctor, Doctor Goodenough, who came to cure her.
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Ask you all round of course, and damn the expense."
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"Damn him--kill him."
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And the very servants begin to laugh--the damn scoundrels!
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He described the scene with considerable humour, taking care to dwell especially upon that part of it which concerned Fanny's coquetry and irrepressible desire of captivating mankind; his meaning being, "You see, Laura, I was not so guilty in that little affair; it was the girl who made love to me, and I who resisted.
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I give up my rights to my half-brother and my bastard brother, yes, my rights and my fortune.