Vulgar words in The Tree of Heaven (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
cuss x 1
damn x 7
make love x 5
play with (one's self) x 1
            

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I want to play with Myself."

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"Damn the cat!" said Anthony to himself.

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You think it's all glory and pluck, and dashing out and blowing up the enemy's guns, and the British flag flying, and wounded pipers piping all the time and not caring a damn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,363   ~   ~   ~

Nobody caring a damn.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,410   ~   ~   ~

You don't care a tinker's cuss about the war.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,411   ~   ~   ~

You don't care a damn what happens to me or anybody else.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,325   ~   ~   ~

Nicky had been sent down because old "Booster" had got it into his head that Nicky had been making love to "Booster's" wife when she didn't want to be made love to, and nothing could get it out of "Booster's" head.

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It's magnificent, but of course he's an ass."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,646   ~   ~   ~

"If you can't be an ass at twenty," said Frances, "when can you be?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,745   ~   ~   ~

Not one of them had any other care than to love and to make love after the manner of the Vortex.

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He didn't think, though, that the idea of making love to her would enter Nicky's head if they left him alone.

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And it would have been better, Lawrence Stephen said, for Nicky to have made love to all the married women in Cambridge than for him to marry Phyllis Desmond.

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Really, there would be nothing else for him to do but to walk out, and he would look an awful ass doing it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,644   ~   ~   ~

He wondered if _he_ would look an awful ass doing it.

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As if he'd be likely to do a damn silly thing like that.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,998   ~   ~   ~

Michael said to himself that he could stand these massed war emotions if they were sincere; but people whined about Louvain and Rheims Cathedral who had never cared a damn about either before the War.

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We get the news from the other fronts in the papers more or less; and I honestly don't care a damn what Asquith is saying or what Lloyd George is doing or what Northcliffe's motives are.

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