Vulgar words in The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris (Page 1)

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damn x 2
hussy x 4
jackass x 1
make love x 1
            

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My poor Dario is accused of making love to every pretty woman in Rome.

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then I can have but one regret--that I did not damn myself with you--yes, yes, damnation rather than that we should never, never be each other's!"

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He seemed to hear a formidable cracking, the family life of the _bourgeoisie_ was collapsing: the father was at a hussy's house, the mother with a lover, the son and daughter knew everything; the former gliding to idiotic perversity, the latter enraged and dreaming of stealing her mother's lover to make a husband of him.

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Yes, in view of Salvat's trial, which is now near at hand, the idea was to damn Anarchism beyond possibility of even the faintest sympathy on the part of the _bourgeois_."

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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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