Vulgar words in Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America (Page 1)

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knock up x 1
make love x 1
slut x 1
            

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To me they seem as light-hearted and as easily amused as if they had done nothing but make love and quiz their priests since the days of Louis XIV.--as if their streets had never flowed with the blood of Frenchmen shed by their brethren--as if they had never won and lost a mighty empire.

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But since the world has begun to talk of the copper mines of Lake Superior, settlers flock into the place; carpenters are busy in knocking up houses with all haste on the government lands, and large warehouses have been built upon piles driven into the shallows of the St. Mary.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,813   ~   ~   ~

She had a battle with the mother, and proved victorious; after which, however, a compromise took place, the slut nursing the puppies and the hen covering them as well as she could with her wings.

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