Vulgar words in Esther Waters (Page 1)

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bastard x 4
damn x 5
            

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'Damn the boy; he'll win by twenty lengths,' said the Gaffer, without removing his glasses.

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Girls aren't worth a damn.... Thirty to one off Bill Short--he'd have laid it.

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We wants no bastards 'ere.... And a nice example, too, for the other children!

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You'll never be able to bring him up, poor little bastard child."

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He is but a bastard, you say, and had better be dead and done with.

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She was absorbed by one desire, how to save her child--how to save him from Mrs. Spires, whom she vaguely suspected; from the world, which called him a bastard and denied to him the right to live.

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I don't care a damn whether they backs according to their judgment, or their dreams, or their fancy.

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Ketley proposed the grill room, but William, who had had a glass more than was good for him, declared that he didn't care a damn--that he could buy up the whole blooming show.

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He did not care whether the trees stood or fell, whether the cement remained upon the walls or dropped from them; he didn't draw a penny of income from the place, and did not care a damn what became of it.

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