Vulgar words in Vesty of the Basins (Page 1)
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What'd ye come back a-makin' love to her for?"
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He smoked a great deal, and sang melancholy, unembarrassed snatches of song, after the manner of Captain Pharo, and made love to Grace, who was beautiful.
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Why, dodrabbit ye, Leezur!" said this native Artichoke, "ye never done an ongodly thing in yer life--'cept, maybe," he added, "to cuss a little when ye was fishin' for the bucket."
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"'I know not why I love her, The fair an' beau'chus she; She bro't the cuss upon me, Und'neath the apple-tree: But she asked me for my jack knife, And halved 'er squar' with me, Sence all'as lovely woman Gives the biggest half to thee.'"
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For we of the Basin--however wilfully inclined sometimes, as Captain Pharo--at heart bow down to our wives, and make love to them, long, long after we are married: quite, indeed, until death do us part, as all true Basins should.