Vulgar words in The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century (Page 1)
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Sharpest thorns are found around the rose; the thistle is the royal bloom of Scotland; and, if our old white ass could speak her mind, doubtless she would call it King of Flowers.
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They have an agèd ass which they gleefully mount in turns, on Play Days, in the courtyard and in the meadow.
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Therefore riding is not altogether strange to them, although my palfrey, Iconoklastes, is somewhat of an advance upon their mild ass, Sheba."
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And, as I cried, the silver bells fell silent, all grew | dark around me, and I knew no more, until I woke up in mine own bed, tended by Sister Mary Rebecca, and Sister Teresa; with Abigail--noisy hussy!--helping to fetch and carry.
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"O God," she said, "full well I know that to lie concerning holy things doth damn the soul forever.
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"Be off, thou impudent hussy!
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Sister Abigail, so often called "noisy hussy" by old Antony, fully, on this final occasion, justified the name.