Vulgar words in L'Assommoir (Page 1)
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She's just like her sister, the brass burnisher, that hussy Adele, who stays away from her job two days out of three.
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Do I even know her, the hussy?
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Well that muff of a president was just like a jackass, that was all!
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She would say that she knew men who were precious fools and women who were precious hussies, and she would mutter words far more biting, with the sharpness of language pertaining to an old waistcoat-maker.
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It was not till she got into the little room, after knocking up against the furniture, that she was able to light a small lamp.
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"You're playing the deuce, eh, you confounded young hussy!
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In that corner there, a hit, you hussy!
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Then when the sun set, the great delight of these young hussies was to stop and look at the mountebanks.
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She was allowed twenty minutes to go from the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or to the Rue du Caire, and it was enough, for these young hussies have the legs of racehorses.
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Then came lectures on love, allusions to dirty blackguards of men, and all sorts of stories about hussies who had repented of flirtations, which left Nana in a state of pouting, with eyes gleaming brightly in her pale face.
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The hussy was flirting with old men.
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A hussy or a thief, and perhaps both by now?
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But one morning while he was drinking a glass with a friend in a wineshop in the Rue Saint-Denis, he perceived the hussy darting down the street.
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Every day the Tuileries footmen find your boss under the table between a couple of high society floozies."
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What a tempting mouth she has, the little hussy!
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Yes, she had been told that the hussy had left her old gentleman, just like the inexperienced girl she was.
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And to think that the hussy had had such an attentive, loving gentleman, and had yet fallen to this condition, merely for the sake of following some rascal who had beaten her, no doubt!
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Gervaise, who accused her of doing it to enrage them, set herself above the scandal; she might meet her daughter on the street, she said; she wouldn't even dirty her hand to cuff her; yes, it was all over; she might have seen her lying in the gutter, dying on the pavement, and she would have passed by without even admitting that such a hussy was her own child.
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Virginie was reflecting, anxious about a couple of bills which fell due on the morrow and which she didn't know how to pay; whilst Lantier, stout and fat, perspiring the sugar he fed off, ventured his enthusiasm for well-dressed little hussies.
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She was a lady-of-the-evening of the Rue des Martyrs, none of your common street hussies.
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The last clear thought that occupied her mind was that her hussy of a daughter was perhaps eating oysters at that very moment.
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One meets with buffoons in low dancing places who imitate the delirium tremens, only they imitate it badly.