Vulgar words in The Common Law (Page 1)
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And the majority will continue saying the same thing throughout the coming decades as long as there are any exhibitions to damn.
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"That's piffle, too!" said Burleson in his rumbling bass--"like that damn hen you lugged in--" A shout of laughter relieved everybody.
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"She's damn decent to everybody.
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"Why--oh, it's too silly to repeat--but they say there is nothing lovable about your work--that it's inhumanly and coldly perfect--too--too--" she flushed and laughed uncertainly--"'too damn omniscient' is what one celebrated man said.
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They have time and leisure to foregather, laugh, be silly, discuss, banter, flirt, make love, and cut up all the various harmless capers that humanity is heir to.
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About two o'clock Sam Ogilvy sauntered in, a skull pipe in his mouth, his hair rumpled: "It's that damn mermaid of mine," he said, "can't you come up and look at her and tell me what's the trouble, Kelly?"
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Then that ass, Sam Ogilvy--oh, it's just oversmoking I guess, or--I don't know what."
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"That," he said, "if you permit the vigour of expression, is damn nice of you, Neville.
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"Certainly," said Annan, "you're the sort of cheerful ass we need in our business.
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He sprang to his feet, took a short turn or two before the hearth, then, catching sight of her face in its colourless dismay and consternation: "I suppose you don't care a damn for me--that way!" he said, with a mirthless laugh.
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"That's damn square of you, Querida."
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Marry whoever you damn please.
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"Sam's such an ass," said his brother, "and it isn't all snobbery on my part."
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There is no greater ass than a wise one.
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Some say I'm an ass, others a bally idiot, others merely refer to me as imbecile.
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You sound like a Puritan making love!"
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Half of 'em are neurotics, anyway, and they adore the bizarre--" "Damn it," snapped Sam, "do you mean that my countenance resembles a gargoyle?