Vulgar words in Black Oxen (Page 1)
This book at a glance
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The world was marching to the tune of youth, damn it (Mr. Clavering was beginning to feel elderly at thirty-four), but it was hard to shake out the entrenched.
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III The critics left after the second act to damn the play at leisure.
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"Damn them!
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"Damn him!" thought Clavering.
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Do you think I am Mary's bastard?"
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Gora Dwight had an extraordinary knowledge of men for a woman to whom men did not make love.
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He knows, damn him!"
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Such an ass, such a cursed ass had he become in one short month.
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If he made a precipitate ass of himself--what comparisons!...
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Well, he'd lose the game before he'd make a fool of himself again... Ass... he'd had the game in his own hands last night... could have switched off any moment.
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Even there, while we were perched on two high stools, he didn't make love to me as any human man would have done.
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He'd rout them all, damn them.
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Those had been the times when he had flouted the idea that he was basically romantic; and that he had never made a jackass of himself over any woman had induced a feeling of superiority that had expanded his ego.
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"No, but I'd like damn well to get her married.
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"You know damn well there wasn't.
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"Damn nonsense.
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There were times when he wrote better surrounded by the stimulations of the office; when he was neither fagged nor disturbed he worked at home.
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She's handsome, true to her traditions in every way--Marian Lawrence is a hussy unless I'm mistaken and I usually am not--she has talent and she has cultivated her mind.
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I may be a fool but I'm not a damn fool, as James used to say.
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I'm not an old ass.
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I'm not so damn sure I'd have tried to make myself think I was in love with James--who had about as much imagination as a grasshopper and the most infernal mannerisms.
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"Who cares a damn about pride?
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I always intend to do just as I please and damn the consequences."
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He was in a fine frame of mind to make love to a woman.
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But she merely said: "My dear Lee, I could not stand being made love to at four in the afternoon.
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She was not at peace when Clavering made love to her, far from it; but she enjoyed with all the zest of a woman with her first lover, and something of the timidity, this tantalizing preliminary to fruition.
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(Damn all women for cats, the best of them.
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I hear you even made love to our fair hostess until you found out the truth and then you dropped her like a hot potato--or a cold fish.
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And suppose we change the subject---- They're at it again, damn them."
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It would be the former if any one else had written the damn thing, but it'll go because it isn't time yet for the Clavering luck to break.
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He's a damn good-looking chap, too, and has that princely distinction peculiar to Austrians.
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"But as you were looking rather fagged before you came down with that two-days' headache, I made up my mind that you needed a change and dropped Din a hint to open his camp in the Adirondacks and give you a farewell house-party.
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If any man had made love to you then, you would merely have turned on him your weary disillusioned eyes, or laughed cynically at him and yourself.
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Had this man offered her something that would make love seem insignificant and trivial?
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He knew she had always liked him the better because he did not make love to her the moment they met, but today he would take her by surprise, give her no time to think.