Vulgar words in The History of David Grieve (Page 1)
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She's got spunk enough to waak to Lunnon if she'd a mind.
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Mr. Ancrum was a meddler and he an ass.
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Yo've got no more spunk nor a moultin hen.
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Damn my eyes iv it doosn't!
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a hundred years since Voltaire, and mankind still went on believing in all these follies and fables, in the ten plagues, in Balaam's ass, in the walls of Jericho, in miraculous births, and Magi, and prophetic stars!--in everything that the mockery of the eighteenth century had slain a thousand times over.
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That the Magi and Balaam's ass are true!
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Moreover, Daddy, by a happy instinct, had at once made common cause with Purcell's downtrodden sister, going on even, as his passionate sense of opposition developed, to make love to the poor humble thing mainly for the sake of annoying the brother.
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He travelled in perpetual delight, making love no doubt here and there to some passing Mignon, and starving with the gayest of hearts.
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Dora sank down with a groan, and in another minute Lomax was dashing his head against the wall, vowing that he would beat his brains out.
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But Daddy was obdurate, brutal in his determination to have his way; and when she angered him with her remonstrances, he turned upon her with an irritable-- 'I know what it is--damn it!
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Another woman would have told Lucy plumply that she was a little fool; that in the first place young Grieve had never shown any signs of making love to her at all; and that, in the second, if he had, her father would never let her marry him without a struggle which nobody could suppose Lucy capable of waging with a man like Purcell.
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That'll damn you, and make your fortune some day, I warn you.
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He had poured out upon her the coarsest flatteries, yet she realised that he had not made love to her.
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It was perfectly true that, libertine as he was, he had so far felt no inclination whatever to make love to the English girl.
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Then suddenly David said, pushing him to the door: 'You're a great ass, John--get out, and good night to you.'
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He wouldn't have such a hussy another night under his roof.
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Even now with his first child, he had taken advantage of her being laid up to make love to other women.
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Lucy's indignation may be taken for granted, and the angry proofs she heaped on David that Louie was an extravagant story-telling hussy, who spent everything she could get on dress and personal luxury.
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You must sleep, or you will knock up; let me give you a sleeping draught.'