Vulgar words in London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger (Page 1)
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It is only by the advantages of education that we can show ourselves superior to such a hussy as Albemarle's gutter-bred duchess, who was the faithless wife of a sailor or barber--I forget which--and who hangs like a millstone upon the General's neck now that he has climbed to the zenith.
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She wondered as she heard of the fine-drawn distinctions among that rabble of servants, the upper ranks of whom were supplied by the small gentry--of servants who waited upon servants, and again other servants who waited on those, down to that lowest stratum of kitchen sluts and turnspits, who actually made their own beds and scraped their own trenchers.
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Mansart is spending millions on Versailles, with his bastard Italian architecture, his bloated garlands and festoons, his stone lilies and pomegranates.
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"How the coach rocks--those blockheads will end by upsetting it.
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I'll settle the hussy, with madam's leave."
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You are an ungrateful hussy for looking vexed when I have come a score of miles through the dust to do you a service."
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"Hyacinth, under all her appearance of silliness, is a remarkably clever woman," said Lady Sarah, sententiously; "but, pray, Sir Ralph, if Mistress Angela's father has good reason for not prosecuting his daughter's lover--indeed I ever thought her an underhand hussy--why does not Sir Denzil Warner--who I hear has been at death's door--pursue him for assault and battery?"
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"Will he make that sly slut own her misconduct in open court?"