Vulgar words in Thackeray (Page 1)

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ass x 1
make love x 2
            

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She makes love to everyone,-even to her sanctimonious brother-in-law, who becomes Sir Pitt in his time,-and always succeeds.

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Miss Quigley is an ass; but we are made to sympathise entirely with the ass, because of that morsel of pathos as to her mother's letters.

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No, no; where the ivy now clusters there grew strong portcullis and bars of steel; where the wallflowers now quiver in the ramparts there were silken banners embroidered with wonderful heraldry; men-at-arms marched where now you shall only see a bank of moss or a hideous black champignon; and in place of the rats and owlets, I warrant me there were [Pg 141] ladies and knights to revel in the great halls, and to feast and dance, and to make love there."

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