Vulgar words in The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 (Page 1)

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hussy x 3
jackass x 1
            

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In the Rue des Martyrs and the Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre, the brothers found night-birds of another kind, women who slunk past them, close to the house-fronts, and men and hussies who belaboured one another with blows.

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He talked of his paper's dignity and gravity; and declared that the lavishing of such fulsome praise upon a hussy--yes, a mere hussy, in a journal whose exemplary morality and austerity had cost him so much labour, would seem monstrous and degrading.

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Why, he shouted to him that he'd been a stupid jackass all his life, working himself to death for those /bourgeois/, who now wouldn't bring him so much as a glass of water.

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