Vulgar words in Noughts and Crosses - Stories, Studies and Sketches (Page 1)
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"H'out yer goes, and damn yer impudence!"
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"The woman--or maid, to call her by her proper title--was a dark-browed slut, wi' eyes like sloes, an' hair dragged over her face till she looked like an owl in an ivy-bush.
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And then something like a strangling sob broke out on the stillness, frightening the lecturer; and a shrill cry-- "Don't go--oh, _damn it all!_ don't go!
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Now having probed my weakness, and being satisfied that I no longer dared to turn him out, he, who had half-imposed his native tongue upon us, constraining the household to a hideous jargon, the bastard growth of two languages, condescended to jerk us back rudely into our own speech once more, mastering it with a readiness that proved his former dissimulation, and using it henceforward as the sole vehicle of his wishes.
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To-day you have grown into an unmitigated ass.
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"Then damn Groombridge Eighteen-thirty!"