Vulgar words in The Market-Place (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
cuss x 1
damn x 6
fag x 2
jackass x 1
            

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I'd seen the cuss before during the day, walking up and down near my offices.

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You look rather fagged--or at all events you did yesterday.

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I liked the books well enough, mind you--but damn the people that came to buy them, I couldn't stand it.

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"Damn it all, why shouldn't she go off by herself, and take care of her own money her own way?

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Damn his wife!

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"Oh, damn him, and his card too," Thorpe protested easily.

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The reflection that this sumptuous residence had been his for a month, and that it daily stood waiting for him, furnished and swept and provisioned for his coming, did nothing to help the passing of time in the hot, fagged City.

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He was conscious of no surprise; it was as if he had divined all along the sinister shadows of Lord Plowden and Lord Plowden's gardener, lurking in the obscurity behind this egregious old ass of a Tavender.

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"I brought this old jackass here for a purpose," he said in low, gravely mandatory tones.

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I hold the whip-hand, and I should be an ass not to remember things.

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"Between ourselves, it isn't worth a damn," the other blithely assured him.

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"Damn being 'nice'!

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