Vulgar words in Là-bas (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
damn x 1
god damn x 1
            

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One would say it was angry at having got into the wrong box and avenged itself by going into voluntary paralysis when possessed by one who was neither a sharper nor an ass.

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Think of a consumptive spitting blood and suffocating in a room one flight up, behind the 'ass-back' gables of, say the passage des Panoramas, for instance.

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Then it would be finished, whereas now I must begin at the beginning again, and God damn her!

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"Master, whose inconceivable ferocity engenders life and inflicts it on the innocent whom thou darest damn--in the name of what original sin?--whom thou darest punish--by the virtue of what covenants?--we would have thee confess thine impudent cheats, thine inexpiable crimes!

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