Vulgar words in Fortitude (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 8
buffoon x 1
damn x 5
god damn x 3
slut x 1
            
whore x 2
            

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Cards sometimes wondered whether Peter cared for him at all and whether he wasn't really fonder of that "stupid ass Galleon" who never had a word to say for himself.

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"Damn" from Mr. Westcott but he sits still looking at the table-cloth and his hand shaking.

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His father grasped it but slowly--at last he said: "Damn you, what are you talking about?"

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"Damn you," said Mr. Westcott very quietly.

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"God damn you!" said his father and slipped, and they came down on to the wood floor together.

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"God damn you," he said again, but he did not move.

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"I did it 'cause Rupert said I couldn't--Rupert's silly ass."

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that simply isn't the word for it ... but 'ere's the room and nobody been in it since Sairy Grace and she was always bringin' men along with 'er, dirty slut and that's a month since she's been and gone and I always like 'aving yer, Mr. Brant, for you're quiet enough and no trouble at all--and your friend looks pleasant I must say."

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I've been an ass to bother you with it all and while we've got each other things can't be so bad."

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"Oh, damn you and your talk--I hate you.

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Young Tony Gale and young Robin Trojan and my young ass of a brother ... don't want you to join that lot, Peter, my boy.

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What an absolute ass!

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I don't suppose there's any girl in London been so wrapped in cotton wool all her life, and that old ass of a father and still more irritating ass of a mother would go on wrapping her still if they had their way.

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He remembered a sentence out of a strange novel of Dostoieffsky's that he had once read, "The Brothers Karamazoff": "It's a feature of the Karamazoffs ... that thirst for life regardless of everything--" and the Karamazoffs were of a sensual, debased stock--rotten at the base of them with an old drunken buffoon of a father--yes, that was like the Westcotts.

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Nevertheless, it hurt, although it was only that young ass of a Galleon.

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God damn you, for making your daughter into a whore--That's what you've done, you with your flat face, your filthy flat face--you've made your daughter a whore, I tell you--and it's nothing but you--you--you--!"

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Damn it all, one keeps thinking...." In the evening light the sea below the road was a pale blue and near the shore a calm green.

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