Vulgar words in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Page 1)

This book at a glance

blockhead x 2
hussy x 2
knock up x 1
make love x 1
slut x 1
            
ugly as sin x 1
            

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You would be wronging the girl, if she were what she ought to be; but I assure you she is as artful a little hussy as anybody need wish to see; and you'll got entangled in her snares before you know where you are.

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'Are you too busy making love to my niece to make war with the pheasants?

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It sounded very like 'confounded slut,' but I was quite willing it should be something else.

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'Curse you for an impertinent hussy, then!' cried he, throwing her from him with such violence that she fell on her side; but she was up again before either I or her brother could come to her assistance, and made the best of her way out of the room, and, I suppose, up-stairs, without loss of time.

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'Give it her yourself, you blockhead!' cried she, recoiling with a spring from between us.

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He was a man of good family and large possessions, but the naughty girl maintained he was old as Adam, ugly as sin, and hateful as - one who shall be nameless.

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The distance was little more than six miles, but the road was strange, and I had to keep stopping to inquire my way; hallooing to carters and clodhoppers, and frequently invading the cottages, for there were few abroad that winter's morning; sometimes knocking up the lazy people from their beds, for where so little work was to be done, perhaps so little food and fire to be had, they cared not to curtail their slumbers.

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Stupid blockhead that I was!

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