Vulgar words in The Voyage Out (Page 1)

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ass x 3
bastard x 1
damn x 8
ugly as sin x 1
            

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Mrs. Ambrose's worst suspicions were confirmed; she went down the passage lurching from side to side, and fending off the wall now with her right arm, now with her left; at each lurch she exclaimed emphatically, "Damn!"

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"Hirst escorts Miss Warrington; Pepper advances alone on a white ass; provisions equally distributed--or shall we hire a mule?

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But Susan, who had been brought up to understand that the horse is the noblest of God's creatures, could not agree, and Venning thought Hirst an unspeakable ass, but was too polite not to continue the conversation.

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"And he's as ugly as sin."

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Pepper stopped and began a discourse upon round dances, country dances, morris dances, and quadrilles, all of which are entirely superior to the bastard waltz and spurious polka which have ousted them most unjustly in contemporary popularity--when the waiters gently pushed him on to his table in the corner.

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"Damn that man!" she exclaimed, having acquired some of Helen's words.

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"Damn his insolence!"

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At last St. John exclaimed, "Damn!

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Damn everything!

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Damn everybody!" he added.

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"I like walking in Richmond Park and singing to myself and knowing it doesn't matter a damn to anybody.

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"Damn it all!" he demanded, "am I in love with her?"

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"What an ass I was not to bring my Kodak!"

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