Vulgar words in Secret Bread (Page 1)

This book at a glance

arse x 1
ass x 4
bastard x 4
country bumpkin x 2
damn x 2
            
make love x 3
            

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"Come and tak' th' arse to meadow for your brother, instead of wasten' the marnen'.

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"Mother's willen, only she did say you was so took up with the lil'un you wouldn't take no account of Vassie, seeing she'm only a bastard like the rest of us.

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"John-James," he began almost diffidently, "you mustn't talk like that about bastards--as though it made any difference to me.

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"Don't be an ass, Doughty," said Polkinghorne sharply; "and if you can't help being a cad, wait till Miss Eliot isn't present."

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"Only that a fellow with a pack of bastard brothers must have had just the father and mother to teach him...." There was a moment's silence; the boys all felt intensely uncomfortable, not so much even at Hilaria's presence as at this sudden nakedness of thought and emotion.

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That's why Ruan's being brought up a gentleman--because he's the only one who's not a bastard."

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"Don't be an ass, John-James," he said; and it was the first time he had been able to meet any little speech of the kind without strain.

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"Don't be a greater ass than you can help," advised Killigrew genially, and the two set off together for the point where the light had just flickered and gone out, as though the slide had been drawn over the lantern, if lantern it were.

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"Damn it all!

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"Oh, damn it all!

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"Oh, I'm sure he couldn't be such an ass as to think that," protested Ishmael.

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"I don't care what Mrs. Penticost thinks!" she told her reflection in the blurred looking-glass as she pulled a gold-coloured ribbon round her waist; "I don't care what any of them think--they're just country bumpkins, with no ideas in their heads beyond crops and cows!"

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I don't think country bumpkins are educated up to my peculiar style of beauty."

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There is always something ridiculous about making love to a woman in glasses.

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He had always made love in caresses, never in words.

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I never wanted you to make love to me.

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