Vulgar words in The Vehement Flame (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 7
chump x 1
cuss x 2
damn x 12
hog x 1
            
knock up x 1
make love x 2
slut x 2
            

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Oh, Maurice, if I _have_--" "You'd have injured me a damn sight more if you hadn't married me!" he said.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 818   ~   ~   ~

"Damn 'em, _polite_!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,066   ~   ~   ~

When he came into the studio to talk things over he was as sober as if he were fifty, and hadn't made an ass of himself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,459   ~   ~   ~

I'm an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,902   ~   ~   ~

Those men are chumps.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,021   ~   ~   ~

I knock up against people at the office, and I know several fellows and girls outside--" "What girls?"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,117   ~   ~   ~

He said, "Oh, damn!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,166   ~   ~   ~

"Damn him!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,256   ~   ~   ~

"I've made an ass of myself," he used to think, sorting out his cards for solitaire and looking furtively at the thin face, with its lines of wistful and faded beauty.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,324   ~   ~   ~

"Oh, _damn_!" he said to himself, feeling the scrape of worn linen on the back of his hand.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,592   ~   ~   ~

_"Ass--ass!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,618   ~   ~   ~

He had given her nothing, hardly even a thought (except the thought that he was an ass), since last May.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,779   ~   ~   ~

Damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,830   ~   ~   ~

("He's going to say he's hard up--the extravagant cuss!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,942   ~   ~   ~

"My dear fellow, don't be a bigger ass than you can help!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,219   ~   ~   ~

Damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,409   ~   ~   ~

He thought of the loveliness of that past June--and the contrasting and ironic ugliness of the present September.... Now, the little secret house in the purlieus of Mercer's smoke and grime; then, the river, and the rippling tides of grass and clover, and the blue sky--and that ass, lying at the feet of a woman old enough to be his mother!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,423   ~   ~   ~

"Let me help you," Maurice said, politely; adding to himself, "Damn--damn--!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,449   ~   ~   ~

But that girl that's been wheelin' him has measles at her house--little slut!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,961   ~   ~   ~

Jealousy is hogging all the love for yourself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,214   ~   ~   ~

And she sent--the slut!--a complaint to the Board of Health--and the doctor, he come this afternoon, and said it was!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,285   ~   ~   ~

Once Maurice, pacing frantically up and down, heard her flat laugh; then, to his dismay, he saw her, through the glass of the door, instead of hanging up the receiver, drop a coin into the slot.... "Damn!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,111   ~   ~   ~

But, damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,132   ~   ~   ~

But I won't have her come here, to my own house, and make love to him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,444   ~   ~   ~

And when she hears he has married Lily, she'll stop making love to him by getting him to tie her shoestrings!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,694   ~   ~   ~

For himself, he, personally, didn't care "a damn," whether Weston got ahead of Greenleaf or Greenleaf beat Weston.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,388   ~   ~   ~

"I hope you dear people don't think I'm an ungrateful cuss, not to have come to Green Hill this summer; but the fact is, I've been awfully up against it, trying to make up my mind about something."

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