Vulgar words in Within the Tides (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 3
cuss x 1
damn x 6
knickers x 1
knocked up x 1
            
spunk x 2
            

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So that worthy old ass would go up and dodge about the Moorsom's town house, perhaps waylay Miss Moorsom's maid, and then would write to 'Master Arthur' that the young lady looked well and happy, or some such cheerful intelligence.

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What do they think a man is--blown-out paper bag or what?--go off pop like that when he's hit--Damn silly yarn--Hint indeed!...

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"Damn boatmen--know no better.

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asks Cloete, twitching his mouth... George owns up: No-would be no better than a squeamish ass if he thought that, after all these years in business.

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I am no squeamish ass, either, says he, very slowly.

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There's only two of us in the world belonging to each other... "Cloete lets out a horrid cuss-word, jumps up, bolts away into his room, and George hears him there banging things around.

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Cloete looked so savage as he went to and fro that he hadn't the spunk to tackle him; but George seemed a softer kind to his eye.

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Oh, damn!

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And Stafford faces him out--both holding on to the cabin table: No, damn you, you are only a dirty vagabond; but I can scare the other, the chap in the black coat... "Meaning George Dunbar.

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He catches hold of him by the shoulders and begins to shake him: Damn you--if you had had the sense to know what to say to your brother, if you had had the spunk to speak to him at all, you moral creature you, he would be alive now, he shouts.

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"Cloete passes by with a damn bitter laugh, because he thinks that the fellow in a way has paid him off already, if he only knew it."

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Had Davidson seen a real hobgoblin his eyes could not have bulged more than at this small boy in a dirty white blouse and ragged knickers.

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"The child, lying very flushed in a miserable cot knocked up out of gin-cases, stared at Davidson with wide, drowsy eyes.

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