Vulgar words in The Shuttle (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
blockhead x 1
damn x 13
fag x 1
knock up x 1
            
make love x 5
            

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Damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 371   ~   ~   ~

It was plain enough that he could not arrange his fortune as he had anticipated when he decided to begin to make love to little pink and white, doll-faced Rosy Vanderpoel.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 379   ~   ~   ~

Damn!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 519   ~   ~   ~

That the little blockhead should be allowed to do what she liked with her money and that he should not be able to forbid her!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 604   ~   ~   ~

"What right had you to think, damn it!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,212   ~   ~   ~

"Damn!" she heard him say under his breath.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,456   ~   ~   ~

By nightfall both were fagged and neither in sanguine mood.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,910   ~   ~   ~

If you have brought up a family for years on the proceeds of such jobs as driving a ten-penny nail in here or there, tinkering a hole in a cottage roof, knocking up a shelf in the vicarage kitchen, and mending a panel of fence, to be suddenly confronted with a proposal to engage workmen and undertake "contracts" is shortening to the breath and heating to the blood.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,488   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it," he burst out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,490   ~   ~   ~

A nice ass I should be to play an idiot joke like that.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,777   ~   ~   ~

Old Doby chuckled at their love-making chaff, remembering dimly that seventy years ago he had been just as proper a young chap, and had made love in the same way.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,129   ~   ~   ~

And then, as he saw more distinctly, "Damn!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,142   ~   ~   ~

"Damn it!" he exclaimed; "it is Betty."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,365   ~   ~   ~

You made love to them, you flattered them either subtly or grossly, you roughly or smoothly bullied them, or you harrowed them with haughty indifference--if your love-making had produced its proper effect--when it was necessary to lure or drive or trick them into submission.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,010   ~   ~   ~

He had not intended to forget the episode of the nice little village girl with whom Tenham and himself had been getting along so enormously well, when the raging young ass had found them out, and made an absurdly exaggerated scene, even going so far as threatening to smash the pair of them, marching off to the father and mother, and setting the vicar on, and then scratching together--God knows how--money enough to pack the lot off to America, where they had since done well.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 8,134   ~   ~   ~

"No," suddenly and fiercely, "damn it, it has not!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,017   ~   ~   ~

His theory was that they hated their stone coffins, and fought their way back through the grey mists to try to talk and make love and to be seen of warm things which were alive.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,846   ~   ~   ~

To have said to Lady Alanby: "My brother-in-law, in whose house I am merely staying for my sister's sake, is trying to lead you to believe that I allow him to make love to me," would have suggested either folly or insanity on her own part.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 10,157   ~   ~   ~

"Oh, damn her!" he said, his damp forehead on his hands.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 10,158   ~   ~   ~

"Damn the whole universe!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 10,652   ~   ~   ~

"Damn her!" he found himself crying out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 11,915   ~   ~   ~

Damn it," rising to a sort of frenzy, "what are you doing waiting in a hole like this--in this weather--at this hour--you--you!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 12,328   ~   ~   ~

DAMN you!" as the unswerving lash cut down again--again.

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