Vulgar words in In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary (Page 1)
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For a long time to come we shall go on grudging our neighbour his house--there's no doubt about that; but even as his ox and ass have ceased to enter into practical ethics because our average neighbour doesn't possess either, so we hear it is to be with his servant and his maid.
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In all the miscellaneous scrapping which we watch to-day is there one strong man with a sense of direction?
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[A] For all these ill-timed guests you are to baste Cicely, or "tug her a crash," or "make her seek creeks"; you "call her a slut," or "dress her down."
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On the other hand, hard work all round: "Sluts' corner" to be ridded; sweeping, dusting, mop-twirling, Let some to peel hemp, or else rushes to twine, To spin or to card, to seething of brine; and as for the men: Let some about cattle, some pastures to view, Some malt to be grinding against ye do brew.
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He was a cockscomb, he was an ass; but he preferred the West of England to Italy.
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At this present April, 1812, in my fifty-first year, I am courted, follow'd, flatter'd, and made love to _en toutes les formes_, by four men--two of them reckoned sensible, and one of the two whom I have known half my life--Lord Holland, Ward, young M----n, and little M----y.
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The Americans call that sort of thing poppycock, which seems a useful phrase.