Vulgar words in Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor (Page 1)

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ass x 1
bastard x 2
country bumpkin x 1
damn x 1
fag x 1
            
hussy x 2
knock up x 1
            

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But others were of high family, as any need be, in Devon--Carews, and Bouchiers, and Bastards, and some of these would turn sometimes, and strike the boy that kicked them.

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It was the sound of horses' feet knocking up through splashy ground, as if the bottom sucked them.

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As John Fry whispered, so I did, for he was off Smiler by this time; but our two pads were too fagged to go far, and began to nose about and crop, sniffing more than they need have done.

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Here he sat down with tears in his eyes, and called for a little mulled bastard.

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As I looked down on his stiff bright head-piece, small quick eyes and black needly beard, he seemed to despise me (too much, as I thought) for a mere ignoramus and country bumpkin.

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But I never counted upon being beaten so thoroughly as I was; for knowing me now to be off my guard, the young hussy stopped at the farmyard gate, as if with a brier entangling her, and while I was stooping to take it away, she looked me full in the face by the moonlight, and jerked out quite suddenly,-- 'Can your love do a collop, John?'

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'Thou art a hopeless ass, John.

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Damn it, I am not afraid of an owl, man.

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The little sly hussy has been to the cobwebbed arch of the cellar, where she has no right to go, for any one under a magistrate.

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