The 2,133 occurrences of hussy

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But the widow said she was a light-minded hussy, and persisted as usual in her lamentations and mourning.

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The fact is, the young hussy loved a dance or a game at cards much more than a humdrum conversation over a tea-table; and so she plied her sister day and night with hints as to the propriety of opening her house, receiving the gentry of the county, and spending her fortune.

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"'The proud, brazen hussy I was, God be good to us!

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He expected to find a city which would be one roseate and romantic revel, given over to joys of the flesh, to wine-drinking and confetti-throwing, overrun with hussies, gone mad with lascivious waltzes, reeking with Babylonish amours.

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And so, too, in that loud, crass annex of Broadway, the Café de Paris--and in the Moulin Rouge, which died forever from the earth a dozen years ago when the architect Niermans seduced the place with the "art nouveau"--and amid the squalid hussies of the fake Tabarin--and in the Rue Royale, at Maxim's, with its Tzigane orchestra composed of German gipsies and its toy balloons made by the Elite Novelty Co. of Jersey City, U.S.A.

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"Get out of the way you impudent hussy," he commanded, "I'll kill your meddling lover, like the varlet hound he is."

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"You wretched hussy, to speak rudely to a guest of mine, who did but make to you a pretty speech.

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Many a tall, black- browed hussy would have been content to go away with Vasco Preez (such was his unchristian name), but he was not willing to do right by any of them.

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An old Scotch lady declared to several of her neighbors the "shameless hussy was bare to the kilt."

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You be as fool-like as dis yere old hen-hussy.

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"--for you and the other idle hussies to gape and grin at?

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Yet, as I bade him good night, he had another turn of terror and his teeth chattered in his head as he stammered out that he was a ruined man, that he had cast off a good wife for a deceitful hussy who only wanted his money, that he had lost his child, that now his career was over, and that, unless I stood by him, he would end his days in prison.

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What young hussy have you got there, my old Eurydice?--Hey!

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She was a handsome, ambitious hussy; she made him marry her, and naturally, after that excellent marriage, Hemerlingue had to leave Tunis.

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All the plastic celebrities of his theatre were on hand, therefore, Amy Férat at their head, a hussy who had already tried her eye-teeth on the gold of several crowns; also two or three famous comic actors, whose pallid faces produced the same effect of chalky, spectral blotches amid the bright green of the hedgerows as was produced by the plaster statuettes.

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The hussy has a great deal of power wherever she comes, and has her share of cunning.

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"Take after your paw--that's what you do, good-for-nothin' little hussy!" the farmer's wife would say.

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Hussy, n. [jázi] Mujercilla.

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And straightway she volunteers to be the medium of returning the money, adding that she will show the hussy her contempt of her by throwing it at her feet, and "letting her see a _slave_ knows all about it."

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When, therefore, Miranda asked his consent to marry, he readily gave it, thinking himself to be the man of her choice; but the sly little hussy laughed at her old guardian, and plighted her troth to Sir George Airy, a man of 24.--Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busy Body_ (1709).

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Between ourselves, my dear Charlotte, an idea has occurred to me, and I fancy that if Major Vigoureux thinks he can delude me with his painted hussies he will find himself mistaken!"

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"That Treacher's missus (as you call her) bore her hand in the sport I have the evidence of my own eyes; and if by 'the Ghost' you allude to a painted hussy that Mrs. Pope and I surprised, the other night, in your master's quarters, I advise you to keep that for the Marines.

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Just wait 'till you get down here, you green-haired hussy, you shameless notor...." The set went instantaneously from full volume to zero sound as James drove the red button home.

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Honestly, Clee, I never saw--never imagined--such a bunch of exhibitionistic, obstreperous, obnoxious, swell-headed, hussies in my whole life.

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There was Beppina, that fat Venetian hussy--to see her eat!

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"Where didst thou soil thyself, thou hussy?"

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You see Hussy Burgh is not in the list.

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Come in directly, you little hussies!"

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It struck me as grossly unfair of Annie; but I did not venture in her present state of mind to protest, for fear she should call me hussy too.

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Are ye not ashamed, hussy?

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Harry, you've no idea how the little hussy slips along, until you comes to be overboard, swimming in her wake.

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"And _don't_ the little hussy behave beautifully!

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Rather skeery at the present moment at being set down beside a bold American hussy, with only a groom as chaperon!

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It's bad enough to have bad seasons and poor crops to do with out-of-doors, without having a set of dressed-up lazy hussies in the house, who mar more than they make.

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Sir, I give you to wit that my wife is an ill hussy, and an heretic belike, and lacketh a sharp pulling up--sharper than I can give her.

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'Tis them flaunting young hussies as reckons quarrelling a comfort o' their lives.

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Receive the hussy, she vehemently declared, she would not!

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And now, when it lies with her to get us out of this scrape, she pretends to be particular--the brazen hussy!

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Loiseau, foaming with rage, was for delivering up "the hussy" bound hand and foot to the enemy.

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Enlivened by the repast, the lights, and one of those white dresses whose reflection causes wrinkles to disappear, La Crenmitz was leaning back in her chair, holding on a level with her half-closed eyes a glass of Château-Yquem from the cellar of their neighbor the Moulin-Rouge; and her little pink face, her airy pastel-like costume reflected in the golden wine, which loaned to it its sparkling warmth, recalled the former heroine of the dainty suppers after the play, the Crenmitz of the good old days, not an audacious hussy after the style of our modern operatic stars, but entirely unaffected and nestling contentedly in her splendor like a fine pearl in its mother-of-pearl shell.

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Thereupon one of my nieces, a sly hussy if ever there was one, had the happy thought of looking in the pocket of one of the numerous top-coats hanging in long rows against the walls of the dressing-room.

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Beside a painted hussy with red hair, wearing a tiny little hat with broad ribbons, who, from her perch on her leather cushion, was driving the horse with her hands, her eyes, her whole made-up person, stiffly erect, yet leaning forward, sat Moëssard, Moëssard the dandy, pink-cheeked and painted like his companion, raised on the same dung-heap, fattened on the same vices.

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I made your fortune as well as my own in the days when we shared everything like brothers.--And you, sallow-faced marquis, I paid a hundred thousand francs at the club to prevent your being expelled in disgrace.--I covered you with jewels, you hussy, so letting people think you were my mistress, because that is good form in our circle, and never asked you for anything in return.--And you, brazen-faced journalist, with no other brains than the dregs of your inkstand, and with as many leprous spots on your conscience as your queen has on her skin, you consider that I didn't pay you what you were worth, and that's the secret of your insults.--Yes, yes, look at me, _canaille_!

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Again, we have that she was 'a wanton hussy'; her 'trolloping muse' shamefacedly 'wallowed in the mire'; but finally the historian is bound to confess 'she was never dull'.

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Soon after landing from this hazardous voyage he wrote merrily to a lady friend: "You are too early, hussy, as well as too saucy, in calling me a _rebel_.

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Here's this thoughtless, careless hussy actually been throwing away some specimens of ore that Will brought in.

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"He have had a hussy with him unbeknown," said Betty, "and she have left her glove.

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I'll have no young hussies creeping in an' out where I be."

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"The topic was discussed," one reads, "at the royal table itself by the family of Louis-Philippe; and Queen Amelie and Aunt Adelaide stigmatised the conduct of this wicked hussy, Lola Montez, in severe terms."

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You know my secon' husband was bad after blind tiger liquor, and harlot eyed, brassy, hussy women.

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)_ Drat you for a mischievous hussy!

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for the hussy had told me a lie in saying that she was going to her aunt's; and it was evident that she had done so, that she might go with this other fellow to the fair.

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The hussy was as straight as an arrow, yet, for the sake of coquetry, or singularity, she would sit in the Methodist chapel, with her dimpled chin resting upon an iron hoop, and her finely formed shoulders braced back with straps so tightly, as to thrust out in a remarkable manner her swanlike chest, and her almost too exuberant bust.

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"Impudent hussy!" thought Vanslyperken, as she passed, but he dared not say a word.

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"'And I say that if I go down there to-night, that I'll take my whip with me to the shameless hussy.

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M. Paul can't bring that hussy here."

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If that had been a woman harmed by her husband going away with some barmaid, or other of them hussies men are so fond of, there wouldn't have been nothing done to avenge _her_.

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The hussy!

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Them hussies without homes ain't got no call to give themselves airs,--bits of things workin' for their livin'."

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W'en I was young they was looked upon as the lowest hussies.

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You just ask her what she thinks of it some time, and it will give you an idea; but I hate Noonoon, and would run away, only grandma goes on so terribly about hussies that go to the bad, and she's very old, and you know how you feel that a curse might follow you when people go on that way," said the girl in bidding me good night.

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an' was got hold of by some fierce designing hussy--they always are--and it was all her fault.

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They stood in rows and grinned--the hussies!

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I give you my word for it, there was hussies there on that stage, before respectable people's eyes, trying all they knew to make men be bad.

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It's like your impudence--you a hussy out to work for your living at a few shillings a-week, and calling yourself a _lady_ help when you're a servant, that's what you are; to bully _me_, a woman with a good home, and the mother of a family."

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"You hussy!

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no fear; I never associate with scandal-mongers," contemptuously retorted Carry, as Mrs Bray made a precipitate departure, emitting something about a hussy who didn't know her place as she went.

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"Dawn, you shameless hussy, you ought to be ashamed of yourself," said her uncle.

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"If I liked him I'd go an' stand in the street an' listen to him, not take up the room of them as has a hall hired for 'em by the _best_ man, who has lived among us, and not some city lah-de-dah married to a hussy off the stage, an' who had women who might be any character goin' round speakin' for him," she tiraded, and turning to me aggressively demanded-- "Where are _your_ colours?"

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There was a father and mother; two daughters, brazen, blowsy hussies, who sang and acted, without an idea of how to set about either; and a dark young man, like a tutor, a recalcitrant house-painter, who sang and acted not amiss.

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Bad luck to her for a bowld hussy!

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"Speak, you hussy!" was usually her irate manner of driving the helpless little handmaid out of that refuge.

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He translates 'garrula,' in line 360, 'the prattling hussy.']

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Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford.

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[_Who has strolled across to LILY, indolently._] Why do you retain the services of that tousled-headed hussy?

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_Uncle._ "I don't know any such thing, you hussy!

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B. C. D. E. F. (I spare you the rest of the alphabet, and it is understood that the reader and present company are excepted), our friends, I say, who deceive their wives for the sake of hussies who have several protectors, as they are well aware?

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Those hussies are mistresses, you will say to me!

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You will make me hate the mischief-making hussy.

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"There, I have offended you by my blunt way," said the cajoling hussy, in soft and timid tones.

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Griffith did not see the hussy was arranging her own affair as well as his.

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"Why because he's promised to leave his property to Fred and you, of course," snapped the old lady; "if he marries that hussy it's precious little you and Fred will get."

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"Hussy," said Mrs. Bunnett under her breath, but not very much under.

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"He's in love with his wife-the little hussy!

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"The hussy!" the doctor said as he walked away to his quarters.

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Your poor folks, I daresay, in the midst of their toiling and moiling, and scrubbing and scraping, and starving and begging, do do each other kindly turns, and put bread in each other's mouths now and then, because they can scratch each other's eyes out, and call each other hussies in the streets, any minute they like, in the most open manner.

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We have to smother hate under smiles, and envy under compliment, and while we are dying to say "You hussy," like the women in the streets, we are obliged, instead of boxing her ears, to kiss her on both cheeks, and cry, "Oh, my dearest--how charming of you--so kind!"

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Can't bear the Venus, or Titian's famous hussy hanging over it.

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"Now Constance Hopkins, thou naughty hussy, wilt thou grumble at tarrying with me to care for thine own dear sister and brother?

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Here we are a bit of floatin' iniquity glidin' through the mystery of them strange seas, an' the very officers on dooty sashed to the neck an' reekin' from the arms of the scented hussies below.

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"I loves ye, ye hussy; that air why I chokes ye!"

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Yes, that hussy must have fancied, no doubt, that Jean was Maréchal's son.

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It was, in fact, possible that the girl at the beer-shop had had an evil suspicion--a suspicion worthy of such a hussy--on hearing that only one of the Roland brothers had been made heir to a stranger; but have not such natures as she always similar notions, without a shadow of foundation, about every honest woman?

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"The impertinent hussy!" he hissed.

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He uttered an oath, put a piece of wood between her teeth, and triumphantly exclaimed: "For the next few hours you are done for, you little hussy."

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Suffice it to say that the vile arts of the hussy prevailed over that noble and upright man--that she enticed him, by adroit appeals to his sympathy, into taking her upon automobile rides, into dining with her clandestinely in the private rooms of dubious hotels, and finally into accompanying her upon a despicable, adulterous visit to Atlantic City.

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_III.--For Music Lovers_ From all piano-players save Paderewski, Godowski and Mark Hambourg; and from the _William Tell_ and _1812_ overtures; and from bad imitations of Victor Herbert by Victor Herbert; and from persons who express astonishment that Dr. Karl Muck, being a German, is devoid of all bulge, corporation, paunch or leap-tick; and from the saxophone, the piccolo, the cornet and the bagpipes; and from the theory that America has no folk-music; and from all symphonic poems by English composers; and from the tall, willing, horse-chested, ham-handed, quasi-gifted ladies who stagger to their legs in gloomy drawing rooms after bad dinners and poison the air with Tosti's _Good-bye_; and from the low prehensile, godless laryngologists who prostitute their art to the saving of tenors who are happily threatened with loss of voice; and from clarinet cadenzas more than two inches in length; and from the first two acts of _Il Trovatore_; and from such fluffy, xanthous whiskers as Lohengrins wear; and from sentimental old maids who sink into senility lamenting that Brahms never wrote an opera; and from programme music, with or without notes; and from Swiss bell-ringers, Vincent D'Indy, the Paris Opera, and Elgar's _Salut d'Amour_; and from the doctrine that Massenet was a greater composer than Dvorák; and from Italian bands and _Schnellpostdoppelschraubendampfer_ orchestras; and from Raff's _Cavatina_ and all of Tschaikowsky except ten per centum; and from prima donna conductors who change their programmes without notice, and so get all the musical critics into a sweat; and from the abandoned hussies who sue tenors for breach of promise; and from all alleged musicians who do not shrivel to the size of five-cent cigars whenever they think of old Josef Haydn--good Lord, deliver us!

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do you persist, hussy, in talking ambiguously to me?

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Hussy, I've been intrusting the sheep to the wolf.

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what is it you say, you hussy?

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