Vulgar words in Greenmantle (Page 1)

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cuss x 1
damn x 1
half-wit x 1
scrap x 1
            

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Loos was no picnic, and we had had some ugly bits of scrapping before that, but the worst bit of the campaign I had seen was a tea-party to the show I had been in with Bullivant before the war started.

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As it chanced, I couldn't keep Peter with me, but had to send him to one of the barges, and I had time for no more than five words with him, when I told him to hold his tongue and live up to his reputation as a half-wit.

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Why in thunder couldn't those hairy ragamuffins keep the little cuss safe?

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When I saw him, I ran forward and gripped his hand and cried, "_Hoe gat het, Mynheer_?" and he knew me and shouted in Dutch, "Damn, if it isn't old Peter Pienaar!"

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