Vulgar words in The Mountebank (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 5
cuss x 2
damn x 13
make love x 2
            

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It's a damn funny world!"

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His father and mother, by the way, were a damn good-looking pair.

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'Pon my soul, he's damn well nearly as clever as Billy."

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"I don't care a damn, Captain Hylton," said he, in a tone singularly different from any that he had used in our pleasant talk--"if anybody knows I was born in a stable.

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"My dear fellow," said he, "so long as you regard me as an honest cuss, nothing matters in the world."

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I went to bed with the conviction that he was as honest a cuss as I had ever met.

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That silly old ass Jenkins"--Jenkins was the head gardener--"is giving his family a treat, instead of coming down on me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 638   ~   ~   ~

She sighed, tried to pick a black crimson Victor Hugo, pricked her fingers and said "Damn!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 644   ~   ~   ~

Do tell me if I'm making an ass of myself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 682   ~   ~   ~

Am I making an ass of myself?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 708   ~   ~   ~

"At this time of day, it's all such damn nonsense," said Lady Auriol.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 709   ~   ~   ~

I pointed out to her that chivalrous souls still beautified God's earth and that such damn nonsense could not be other than the essence of their being.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 845   ~   ~   ~

"Because it's a damn sight too sacred."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 899   ~   ~   ~

He rose with a laugh and a damn and brushed himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,341   ~   ~   ~

And then the picture of that other room, so exquisite, so impregnated with the Far-away Princess spirit of its creator, rose up before him, and he sighed and rubbed his fingers through his red stubbly hair, and made a whimsical grimace, and said, "Oh Damn!"

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"He's an old ass," said Evadne.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,483   ~   ~   ~

I've been much more of a father to her than that damned old ass Mountshire"--Evadne, again; though for once in her life she had exercised restraint--"and I hate to see her unhappy.

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"Well, my dear," said I, "if it comes to that, do you think it was playing the game for him, a married man with possibly a string of children, to come down here and make love to you?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,640   ~   ~   ~

"He never made love to me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,974   ~   ~   ~

Otherwise I should have been reduced to picking up cigar ends with a pointed stick on the Boulevards--and a damn precarious livelihood too, considering the shortage of tobacco in this benighted country.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,229   ~   ~   ~

"But, damn it all, man," I cried angrily, "what have I just been saying?

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"Damn the fellow," I muttered.

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